scholarly journals Provocation: Technology, resistance and surveillance in public space

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 1007-1024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisca Grommé
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Technology Usage ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Order Maintenance ◽  
Urban Public Transport ◽  
Opening Up

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.

scholarly journals The Role of Public Transport in Society—A Case Study of General Policy Documents in Sweden

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Stjernborg ◽  
Ola Mattisson
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Policy Documents

Evaluation of urban public transport priority performance based on the improved TOPSIS method: A case study of Wuhan

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 357-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiuxia Zhang ◽  
Qingnian Zhang ◽  
Tingting Sun ◽  
Yongchao Zou ◽  
Huanwan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Topsis Method ◽  
Urban Public Transport

The Role of Websites in Promoting Urban Public Transport

2010 ◽  
pp. 133-141
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Dydkowski ◽  
Robert Tomanek
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Urban Public Transport

scholarly journals Ensuring sustainable development of urban public transport: A case study of the trolleybus system in Gdynia and Sopot (Poland)

2021 ◽  
Vol 279 ◽  
pp. 123807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Wołek ◽  
Michał Wolański ◽  
Mikołaj Bartłomiejczyk ◽  
Olgierd Wyszomirski ◽  
Krzysztof Grzelec ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Urban Public Transport

Unearthing a Genealogy of Grassroots Economic Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Anne Gessler
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Cooperative Movement ◽  
Critical Intervention ◽  
Cooperative Models ◽  
Theoretical Issues

The introduction frames the book as a critical intervention in the current debate about the role of alternative grassroots models in modernizing mainstream political and economic structures. After framing the political and theoretical issues at stake in New Orleans’s cooperative movement, the introduction outlines how historical local cooperatives interact with transnational cooperative principles to improve their community, expand opportunities for civic participation, and reform systems of governance. Each chapter’s case study represents consumer, producer, or distribution cooperatives that manifest different visions of ideal capital-worker relations and are inspired by local and international utopian socialist, Rochdale, and hybrid racial justice cooperative models. Each example is constitutive of black, working-class, female, and immigrant residents particular subject positions and economic needs. Consequently, the book articulates and debates citizens relationship the state, an ideological drama that plays out in the city’s social spaces to either propel or retard larger challenges to capitalism.

Passenger Flow Prediction of Urban Public Transport Hubs Based on a Deep Learning Approach: A Case Study in Changzhou

CICTP 2018 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Te Xu ◽  
Min Yang ◽  
Jingxian Wu ◽  
Da Lei ◽  
Yunteng Wu
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Passenger Flow ◽  
Flow Prediction ◽  
Urban Public Transport

scholarly journals Informal public transport driver behaviour and regulatory policy linkage: An expose

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smart Dumba
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Regulatory Policy ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Driver Behaviour ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Urban Public Transport ◽  
The Relationship

Background: Literature on the negative socio-economic and environmental externalities generated by informal public transport (IPT) in developing countries is vast, vibrant and growing fast. These externalities include but are not limited to noise, air and land pollution, accidents and, more importantly, a source of congestion (human and vehicular) because of poor driver behaviour. In this article, the research does not seek to reinstate these, but rather, it argues that poor driver behaviour is a dependent variable to some regulatory policy stimuli. Yet, an extensive literature survey has shown that the driver behaviour and urban transport regulation linkage remain little explored.Objective: The purpose of this article was to unpack the relationship between informal public transport driver behaviour and the prevailing regulatory framework.Method: Based on a case study of Harare, Zimbabwe, the researcher adopted a mixed-methods paradigm and interrogated the prevailing urban public transport regulatory regimes and applied professional judgement, oral interviews backed by some quantitative data and relate these to obtaining IPT driver behavioural characteristics.Results: Poor driver behaviour exhibited by IPT were generated, exacerbated and or eased by the prevailing regulatory policy. This is well depicted through an IPT driver behaviour and regulation loop reinforcing diagram.Conclusion: Following this argument, the article cautions policy makers and urban managers alike that direct approaches and interventions when trying to regulate IPT poor driver behaviour and its secondary negative effects will be futile as long as the regulatory policy remains the same. Failure to recognise and connect the dots between IPT driver behaviour and policy partly explains why globally, the IPT sector has proved difficult in prohibiting, restructuring or even formalising it.

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