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Evaluating The Performance Of Public Urban Transportation Systems In India, Omkarprasad S. Vaidya
Evaluating The Performance Of Public Urban Transportation Systems In India, Omkarprasad S. Vaidya
Journal of Public Transportation
Evaluating the performance of public transportation systems facilitates operational improvement and strategic decisions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative performance of 26 public urban transportation organizations in India using various criteria. We grouped these 19 criteria as Operations, Finance, and Accident-based. First, we evaluated the importance of these criteria groups using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Then, we evaluated the organizations (Decision Making Units, DMUs) using various criteria within each criteria group using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Finally, a ransportation Efficiency Number (TEN) was developed that quantified the overall performance of the DMUs considering the 19 …
Onebusaway Multi-Region – Rapidly Expanding Mobile Transit Apps To New Cities, Sean J. Barbeau, Alan Borning, Kari Watkins
Onebusaway Multi-Region – Rapidly Expanding Mobile Transit Apps To New Cities, Sean J. Barbeau, Alan Borning, Kari Watkins
Journal of Public Transportation
Real-time transit information offers many benefits to transit riders, including reduced wait times and increased customer satisfaction. However, offering real-time transit services has been challenging for many transit agencies. While mobile applications (apps) have emerged as a preferred dissemination method for real-time information, it is typically cost-prohibitive for transit agencies to fund custom development of native mobile apps for all popular smartphone platforms. Third-party developers can offer services if an agency openly shares real-time data, but these individuals are volunteers whose priorities and deadlines may not be the same as the agency’s. As a result, few cities have full app …
A Transit Technology Selection Model, Jeffrey M. Casello, Geoffrey Mcd. Lewis, Kevin Yeung, Deborah Santiago-Rodríguez
A Transit Technology Selection Model, Jeffrey M. Casello, Geoffrey Mcd. Lewis, Kevin Yeung, Deborah Santiago-Rodríguez
Journal of Public Transportation
This paper presents an easy-to-use model to assist in technology selection for transit planning. The model computes annual costs for two technologies—currently BRT and LRT—for a system with characteristics specified by the user and from “real-world” operating data. The model computes the annualized capital and operating costs over a wide range of demand; it also calculates location-specific, energy-related emissions for both technologies’ operations. Most importantly, the model allows the user to test the sensitivity of the technology selection result to nearly all inputs. The model is applied to a recent case in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, to verify its functionality. The …
A New Transit Safety Narrative, Todd Litman
A New Transit Safety Narrative, Todd Litman
Journal of Public Transportation
Public transportation is, overall, a relatively safe (low crash risk) and secure (low crime risk) transport mode. Transit travel has about one-tenth the traffic casualty (injury or death) rate as automobile travel, and residents of transit-oriented communities have about onefifth the per capita crash casualty rate as in automobile-oriented communities. Transit also tends to have lower overall crime rates than automobile travel, and transit improvements can help reduce overall crime risk by improving surveillance and economic opportunities for at-risk populations. Despite its relative safety and security, many people consider transit travel dangerous and are reluctant to use it or support …
Analysis Of Visitor Satisfaction With Public Transport In Munich, Diem-Trinh Le-Klähn, C. Michael Hall, Regine Gerike
Analysis Of Visitor Satisfaction With Public Transport In Munich, Diem-Trinh Le-Klähn, C. Michael Hall, Regine Gerike
Journal of Public Transportation
This study investigates the use of public transport by visitors in the city of Munich, Germany. It seeks to understand how visitors perceive public transport services and which factors influence their level of satisfaction. Data were collected from a survey in April and May 2012 with a random sample at selected tourist sites in Munich. Factor analysis resulted in four different service dimensions—traveling comfort, service quality, accessibility and additional features. Visitors were found to be generally satisfied with public transport services in Munich, and their perceptions are independent from most factors.
The Effect Of Density And Trip-Chaining On The Interaction Between Urban Form And Transit Demand, Sisinnio Concas, Joseph S. Desalvo
The Effect Of Density And Trip-Chaining On The Interaction Between Urban Form And Transit Demand, Sisinnio Concas, Joseph S. Desalvo
Journal of Public Transportation
It is unclear whether policies designed to reduce auto and increase transit usage achieve their objective. Evidence is mixed because most empirical research on these policies use ad hoc specifications, whereas our models are drawn from economic theory. Three models of increasing generality show how endogenizing relevant variables changes results obtained by others. The theoretical hypotheses are empirically tested using a dataset that integrates travel and land use. Our main findings are (1) population density has a small impact on transit demand, which decreases when residential location is endogenous; (2) households living farther from work use less transit, a result …
Critical Appraisal Of Web-Based Passenger Information Systems, Gaurav V. Jain, S. S. Jain, Manoranjan Parida
Critical Appraisal Of Web-Based Passenger Information Systems, Gaurav V. Jain, S. S. Jain, Manoranjan Parida
Journal of Public Transportation
Passenger information is vital for developing a user-friendly public transportation system. Websites are rapidly gaining popularity for public transport information dissemination, particularly due to their anytime-anywhere availability and their suitability for the multimodal applications and multilingual interface. Internet-based Passenger Information Systems (PIS), therefore, have become common in developed countries. The development of PIS for urban transport in India however, is at an experimental stage with very few operational deployments. This paper attempts to examine the current state-of-the-art features in Web-based passenger information systems in India and abroad, while critically evaluating the existing sources of public transport information in Ahmedabad as …
Intelligent Taxi Dispatch System For Advance Reservations, Hao Wang, Ruey Long Cheu, Der-Horng Lee
Intelligent Taxi Dispatch System For Advance Reservations, Hao Wang, Ruey Long Cheu, Der-Horng Lee
Journal of Public Transportation
This research proposes and tests a new taxi dispatch policy to improve the existing systems used by taxi companies in Singapore. The proposed method chains trips made by reservations at least 30 minutes before the customer pick-up times. In this paper, the taxi dispatching system, Singapore Taxi Advance Reservation (STAR), is defined. A novel trip-chaining strategy based on a customized algorithm of Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Window (PDPTW) is proposed. The idea is to chain several taxi trips with demand time points that are spread out within a reasonable period of time and with each pick-up point in …
Measuring Bus Service Reliability: An Example Of Bus Rapid Transit In Changzhou, Yueying Huo, Jinhua Zhao, Wenquan Li, Xiaojian Hu
Measuring Bus Service Reliability: An Example Of Bus Rapid Transit In Changzhou, Yueying Huo, Jinhua Zhao, Wenquan Li, Xiaojian Hu
Journal of Public Transportation
The objective of this paper is to analyze service reliability of bus rapid transit (BRT) taking Changzhou BRT as an example. Headway irregularity, potential waiting time, equivalent waiting time, and reliability buffer time are recommended to measure service reliability of BRT. Temporal and spatial distributions and comparisons are analyzed. Findings are that passengers of Changzhou BRT need to budget, on average, an extra 3–5 minutes beyond their typical journey time for selected origin-destination pairs to ensure on-time arrival at destinations with 95% probability. Extra time budgeted for bus waiting beyond mean waiting time contributes to more than 80 percent of …
Testing Individuals’ Ability To Compare Emissions From Public Transport And Driving Trips, William Brazil, Brian Caulfield
Testing Individuals’ Ability To Compare Emissions From Public Transport And Driving Trips, William Brazil, Brian Caulfield
Journal of Public Transportation
To make informed environmental choices, individuals must first understand the potential environmental impacts of the modes of transport available and be able to relate this information to their own internal reference points. This study examines the results of an on-line survey conducted to assess the ability of individuals in the Greater Dublin Area to estimate their potential carbon footprint for a variety of modes of transport. The results indicate that nearly one third of those surveyed stated that they simply did not know the carbon footprint of the modes in question, while those who provided emissions estimates showed a wide …
Light Rail And Land Use Change: Rail Transit’S Role In Reshaping And Revitalizing Cities, Christopher Higgins, Mark Ferguson, Pavlos Kanaroglou
Light Rail And Land Use Change: Rail Transit’S Role In Reshaping And Revitalizing Cities, Christopher Higgins, Mark Ferguson, Pavlos Kanaroglou
Journal of Public Transportation
Planners and policymakers often cite the tangible objective of land use change as a primary motivation and justification for an investment in light rail transit (LRT). But how has light rail performed with respect to achieving this goal? This paper reviews and synthesizes the previous literature on LRT and other rail rapid transit systems in North America, demonstrating that rail transit alone is not a primary driver of land use change and that six beneficial factors affect the ability of these systems to have a measurable impact on reshaping and revitalizing cities.
Commuter Mode Choice And Free Car Parking, Public Transportation Benefits, Showers/Lockers, And Bike Parking At Work: Evidence From The Washington, Dc Region, Andrea Hamre, Ralph Buehler
Commuter Mode Choice And Free Car Parking, Public Transportation Benefits, Showers/Lockers, And Bike Parking At Work: Evidence From The Washington, Dc Region, Andrea Hamre, Ralph Buehler
Journal of Public Transportation
Municipalities and employers in the U.S. attempt to reduce commuting by automobile through commuter benefits for riding public transportation, walking, or cycling. Many employers provide a combination of benefits, often including free car parking alongside benefits for public transportation, walking, and cycling. This study evaluates the relationship between commuter benefits and mode choice for the commute to work using revealed preference data on 4,630 regular commuters, including information about free car parking, public transportation benefits, showers/lockers, and bike parking at work in the Washington, DC region. Multinomial logistic regression results show that free car parking at work is related to …
Reduced Fare Programs For Older Adults And Persons With Disabilities: A Peer Review Of Policies, Gregory L. Newmark
Reduced Fare Programs For Older Adults And Persons With Disabilities: A Peer Review Of Policies, Gregory L. Newmark
Journal of Public Transportation
A significant but understudied activity of transit agencies is managing reduced fare programs for older adults and people with disabilities. The laws that mandate these programs afford transit agencies substantial latitude in designing implementations. Although the resultant program variation offers an excellent opportunity for agencies to learn from each other’s experiences, there has been little comparative analysis. This paper addresses this knowledge gap by providing, for the first time, a systematic consideration of reduced fare policies at the major transit agencies in the 10 most populous metropolitan regions in the United States. This work combines the findings of a structured, …
Forecasting Mobile Ticketing Adoption On Commuter Rail, Candace Brakewood, Francisca Rojas, Joshua Robin, Jake Sion, Sam Jordan
Forecasting Mobile Ticketing Adoption On Commuter Rail, Candace Brakewood, Francisca Rojas, Joshua Robin, Jake Sion, Sam Jordan
Journal of Public Transportation
Several commuter rail systems are beginning to accept mobile payments, in which tickets are purchased and validated on smartphones. Mobile payments may improve the rider experience while reducing costs and simplifying the fare collection process for rail operators. Before investing in this new ticketing technology, rail operators want to understand rider demand for mobile tickets. To assess the potential adoption of mobile payments, stated preference data from an onboard survey on two commuter rail lines (Worcester and Newburyport/Rockport) in the greater Boston area were analyzed. Binary logit was then used to forecast adoption on all commuter rail lines. Based on …
Ballot Box Planning: Rail Referenda Implementation, Kate Lowe, Rolf Pendall, Juliet Gainsborough, Mai Thi Nguyen
Ballot Box Planning: Rail Referenda Implementation, Kate Lowe, Rolf Pendall, Juliet Gainsborough, Mai Thi Nguyen
Journal of Public Transportation
Metropolitan areas in the United States frequently finance new rail lines with local option taxes, and, as a result, rail plans and associated taxes often come before voters as ballot measures. Existing research finds that rail ballot measures are more likely to pass when taxes are linked to specific projects and planning has broad stakeholder involvement. Such studies, however, have not examined to what extent agencies implement voter-approved projects. This research fills this gap and finds the interrelated variables of ballot measure provisions, campaign supporters and strategies, and planned rail projects contribute to varied progress toward implementation in Denver, Houston, …
Assessment Of Passenger Satisfaction With Intra-City Public Bus Transport Services In Abuja, Nigeria, Ali Alphonsus Nwachukwu
Assessment Of Passenger Satisfaction With Intra-City Public Bus Transport Services In Abuja, Nigeria, Ali Alphonsus Nwachukwu
Journal of Public Transportation
The aim of this study was to investigate passenger satisfaction with the service quality attributes of public bus transport services in Abuja, Nigeria. To achieve this, a survey was conducted between February and July 2011. In 10 sample bus stop areas selected for this study, 300 public bus transport users were randomly selected to elicit their overall satisfaction and factors that influenced their satisfaction in the use of public bus transport services in Abuja using a self-rated questionnaire. Data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, and principal component and regression analyses. The results of these analyses showed that passengers …