The Role of Websites in Promoting Urban Public Transport

The introduction of technologies that monitor and track individuals to attribute suspicion and guilt has become commonplace in practices of order maintenance in public space. A case study of the introduction of a marker spray in Dutch urban public transport is used to conceptualise the role of technology in everyday resistances against surveillance. The introduction of this technology made available alternative subject positions. The notion of provocation is proposed for the opening up of social spaces by a technology. Through provocation, issues that do not find their expression in commonly accepted protocols and means of evidence are given a voice as a result of defiant, emotional and provisional technology usage. Attending to visible and defiant usages also opens up an agenda for examining the varying intensities at which technology operates.

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Urban Public Transport

Journal of Planning Literature ◽

10.1177/0885412217693570 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 223-239 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

Sam McLeod ◽

Jan Scheurer ◽

Carey Curtis

Keyword(s):

Network Design ◽

Public Transport ◽

Best Practice ◽

History Of Ideas ◽

Transit Oriented Development ◽

Network Development ◽

Sustainable Mobility ◽

Urban Public Transport ◽

History Of

This article reviews the literature on current “best practice” principles for planning public transport (PT) networks within the context of planners seeking to transition their cities toward sustainable mobility. An overview is provided of the history of ideas about network development. The emerging frontiers for multimodal, demand-responsive PT and the potential implications of new transport technology on traditional PT are discussed. The future role of transit-oriented development within PT network structures is considered. The “moderators” to network design that may impede future best practice brings the article to conclusion.

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Priority Transfer Management Algorithm, Based on Interaction of the Public Transport Dispatch Systems Information and Traffic Lights Control

Transport and Telecommunication Journal ◽

10.2478/ttj-2018-0026 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 315-324 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Dmitry Efimenko ◽

Veniamin Bogumil ◽

Vladimir Vlasov ◽

Vasiliy Demin ◽

Alexandr Akhterov

Keyword(s):

Public Transport ◽

Simulation Modelling ◽

The Public ◽

Traffic Lights ◽

Management Algorithm ◽

Urban Public Transport ◽

Dispatch System ◽

Multi Agent ◽

Transport Passage

Abstract The article is dedicated to the multi agent approach for urban public transport dispatch system to organize priority transfer management, based on interaction with traffic lights control system. The article deals with the issue of urban passenger transport priority transfer of signalized intersections. Priority transfer management algorithm developed by the authors based on interaction of traffic lights control and public transport dispatch systems. The authors considered the role of agents in interaction process of traffic lights control and public transport dispatch systems for implementation of the buses priority passage. Criterion for decision making taking into account savings and loses of time of all participants of traffic at the intersection. The results of simulation modelling of priority public transport passage a signalized intersection are presented

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