Urban public transport in the United States

1974 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-204
Author(s):  
James P. Romualdi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Public Transport

The Implications of Political Trust for Supporting Public Transport

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
JAE YOUNG LIM ◽  
KUK-KYOUNG MOON
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Social Surveys ◽  
Pooled Data ◽  
Policy Attitudes

Abstract Despite the importance of public transport for urban vitality, social equity, and mobility, the discussions surrounding these topics have become heated ideological battles between liberals and conservatives in the United States, as in other countries. Conservatives, in particular, have exhibited anti-transit attitudes that have worked against the development of public transport. Scholars note that political trust functions as a heuristic and its impact is felt more strongly among individuals who face ideological risks with respect to a given public policy. Based on several studies noting the relationships between political trust, ideology and policy attitudes, the study employs the pooled data of the 2010 and 2014 General Social Surveys. It finds that conservatives are negatively associated with supporting spending on public transport, but when contingent upon high levels of political trust, they become more supportive of it. The study discusses the potential of political trust as a mechanism to influence public policy discourses as well as certain methodological and substantive limitations.

Case Study of Transit–Bicycle Integration

2015 ◽  
Vol 2534 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Villwock-Witte ◽  
Lotte van Grol
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
The United States ◽  
Similar System ◽  
Train Station ◽  
Final Destination

The Openbaar Vervoer-fiets (Public Transport–Bike) (OV-fiets) system was implemented to increase the number of train riders on the Dutch railway. The system offers commuters access to bicycles for travel from the train station to their final destination. The system has been very successful. The Nederlandse Spoorwegen (the main passenger railway operator in the Netherlands) found through internal analyses that train users were willing to trade a trip by vehicle for a train–OV-fiet trip and that there was an increase in bicycle–transit users. This study focused on the OV-fiets system as a case study and considered the implications of implementing a similar system in the United States.

scholarly journals Beyond the dichotomy: How ride-hailing competes with and complements public transport

PLoS ONE ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. e0262496
Author(s):  
Oded Cats ◽  
Rafal Kucharski ◽  
Santosh Rao Danda ◽  
Menno Yap
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Travel Time ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
The United States ◽  
Travel Times ◽  
Service Accessibility ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Us Cities ◽  
Public Transport Services ◽  
Two Alternatives

Since ride-hailing has become an important travel alternative in many cities worldwide, a fervent debate is underway on whether it competes with or complements public transport services. We use Uber trip data in six cities in the United States and Europe to identify the most attractive public transport alternative for each ride. We then address the following questions: (i) How does ride-hailing travel time and cost compare to the fastest public transport alternative? (ii) What proportion of ride-hailing trips do not have a viable public transport alternative? (iii) How does ride-hailing change overall service accessibility? (iv) What is the relation between demand share and relative competition between the two alternatives? Our findings suggest that the dichotomy—competing with or complementing—is false. Though the vast majority of ride-hailing trips have a viable public transport alternative, between 20% and 40% of them have no viable public transport alternative. The increased service accessibility attributed to the inclusion of ride-hailing is greater in our US cities than in their European counterparts. Demand split is directly related to the relative competitiveness of travel times i.e. when public transport travel times are competitive ride-hailing demand share is low and vice-versa.

scholarly journals Mobility as a Service and Public Transport: A Rapid Literature Review and the Case of Moovit

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 3666
Author(s):  
Georgina Santos ◽  
Nikolay Nikolaev
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Positive Correlation

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is often proposed as a tool for achieving sustainable mobility and, in particular, increasing the share of public transport trips in cities. In this paper we conduct a rapid review of the literature on MaaS and, using Moovit as a case study, we explore the association between the popularity of searches in Google using the term “Moovit” and the share of workers that commute by public transport. The exercise focuses on metropolitan areas in the United States over the period 2010 to 2019. We find a positive correlation, and we speculate that metropolitan areas with pre-existing higher shares of workers commuting by public transport tend to be metropolitan areas where use of Moovit is more likely.

scholarly journals Transport infrastructure, lock-out and urban form: highway development in Auckland and the United States

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Coleman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
The United States ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Population Densities ◽  
Urban Forms ◽  
The World

When travelling the world, it is impossible not to be struck by the different urban forms of the world’s great cities. Cities differ in size, age, shape and height. They have different housing styles and population densities. Some are concentrated around a mess of crooked streets, some are laid out around a planned grid, and some sprawl over wide areas. Many have a central waterfront, while others have ports several miles away. Cities also differ substantially in terms of their transport systems. There are walking cities, light railbased cities and subway cities. And there are also cities where public transport is little used, as most travelling occurs in private cars. 

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

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