Planning Innovative Public Transportation Systems for Arlington, Texas

1996 ◽  
Vol 1521 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
David A. Faria ◽  
Wilma Smith
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
General Will ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Niche Concept ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Alternative Community ◽  
Public Transportation Systems ◽  
The City

A study was done to develop various innovative transportation strategies to address the changing travel needs of Arlington, Texas, residents. The study was guided by the Arlington Community Transportation Study Committee. It developed the transportation niche concept: the ability to use alternative community transportation services to address specific needs of the community in different parts of the city. Five high-priority niches were studied in detail. The success of the individual niches in particular and the integrated transportation system in general will rely heavily on the cooperation and coordination between the public and the private sectors and the acceptance of the niche concept by the general public.

scholarly journals “Unparking”: How can Smart Mobility Reduce Parking Demand in Our Cities to the Minimum? (Beirut Case Study)

Smart Cities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-185
Author(s):  
Adib Haydar
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Demand And Supply ◽  
Mobility System ◽  
Smart Mobility ◽  
Public Transportation Systems ◽  
Parking Demand ◽  
The City

Beirut is a car-dependent city, with 80% of Beirut citizens using their private cars to move across the city (the rate of car ownership is higher than regional and global benchmarks: 627 cars/1000 in Beirut, 550/1000 in Dubai and 170/1000 in Singapore). This reality causes two related impacts: an increased parking demand and decreased public transportation usage. Furthermore, in order to discuss these aspects, our study addresses the following question: How can the municipality’s interventions and mobility system reforms, such as smart public transportation systems and shareable mobility, reduce parking demand? As our methodology, it consists of three sections: (1) determine Beirut's parking problems by estimating parking demand and supply; (2) assess the potential effects of Beirut municipality policies in comparison to international experiences; and (3) evaluate the potential impacts of the smart public transportation system and shareable mobility in reducing parking demand. This paper studies parking growth in developing countries, such as Lebanon, and can help planners, decision-makers, and the Beirut municipality to make more informed decisions about parking policies, and to meet growing parking demand by introducing smart interventions that have high local potentials.

scholarly journals COVID-19 and Public Transportation: Current Assessment, Prospects, and Research Needs

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alejandro Tirachini ◽  
Oded Cats
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
The State ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
The Public ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Contagion Risk ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Public Transportation Systems

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a great challenge for contemporary public transportation worldwide, resulting from an unprecedented decline in demand and revenue. In this paper, we synthesize the state-of-the-art, up to early June 2020, on key developments regarding public transportation and the COVID-19 pandemic, including the different responses adopted by governments and public transportation agencies around the world, and the research needs pertaining to critical issues that minimize contagion risk in public transportation in the so-called post-lockdown phase. While attempts at adherence to physical distancing (which challenges the very concept of mass public transportation) are looming in several countries, the latest research shows that for closed environments such as public transportation vehicles, the proper use of face masks has significantly reduced the probability of contagion. The economic and social effects of the COVID-19 outbreak in public transportation extend beyond service performance and health risks to financial viability, social equity, and sustainable mobility. There is a risk that if the public transportation sector is perceived as poorly transitioning to post-pandemic conditions, that viewing public transportation as unhealthy will gain ground and might be sustained. To this end, this paper identifies the research needs and outlines a research agenda for the public health implications of alternative strategies and scenarios, specifically measures to reduce crowding in public transportation. The paper provides an overview and an outlook for transit policy makers, planners, and researchers to map the state-of-affairs and research needs related to the impacts of the pandemic crisis on public transportation. Some research needs require urgent attention given what is ultimately at stake in several countries: restoring the ability of public transportation systems to fulfill their societal role.

Map-Matching Algorithm for Applications in Multimodal Transportation Network Modeling

2015 ◽  
Vol 2537 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Perrine ◽  
Alireza Khani ◽  
Natalia Ruiz-Juri
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Data Representation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
The Public ◽  
Standard Data ◽  
Planning Models ◽  
Transit Agencies ◽  
Public Transportation Systems

Generalized Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) files have gained wide acceptance by transit agencies, which now provide them for most major metropolitan areas. The public availability GTFSs combined with the convenience of presenting a standard data representation has promoted the development of numerous applications for their use. Whereas most of these tools are focused on the analysis and utilization of public transportation systems, GTFS data sets are also extremely relevant for the development of multimodal planning models. The use of GTFS data for integrated modeling requires creating a graph of the public transportation network that is consistent with the roadway network. The former is not trivial, given limitations of networks often used for regional planning models and the complexity of the roadway system. A proposed open-source algorithm matches GTFS geographic information to existing planning networks and is also relevant for real-time in-field applications. The methodology is based on maintaining a set of candidate paths connecting successive geographic points. Examples of implementations using traditional planning networks and a network built from crowdsourced OpenStreetMap data are presented. The versatility of the methodology is also demonstrated by using it for matching GPS points from a navigation system. Experimental results suggest that this approach is highly successful even when the underlying roadway network is not complete. The proposed methodology is a promising step toward using novel and inexpensive data sources to facilitate and eventually transform the way that transportation models are built and validated.

scholarly journals Effects of Free-Floating Shared Bicycles on Urban Public Transportation

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cao ◽  
Ma ◽  
Huang ◽  
Lü ◽  
Chen
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Problem Model ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Service Areas ◽  
Public Transportation System ◽  
Shared Bicycle ◽  
Public Transportation Systems ◽  
The City

As a product of the development of the Internet and the sharing economy, shared bicycles are beneficial in solving the last mile problem of public transportation for urban residents and expanding the service area of urban public transportation to a certain extent. This paper analyses the spatial-temporal characteristics of shared bicycles in the city of Beijing by using kernel density estimation and statistical analysis methods. The maximum coverage location problem model is used to quantify the effects of shared bicycles on the subway and bus urban public transportation systems. The analysis results are of great importance to identify the effects of shared bicycle usage on an urban bus public transportation system from the view of space-time. The results show that (1) shared bicycles are largely located within 1.5 km from the subway station and 500 meters from the bus stations; (2) the number of the shared bicycle usage changes along with the distance from the subway and bus stations; (3) subway and bus stations are divided into six types based on the sink-source characteristics of shared bicycles; (4) the service areas of subway and bus stations are expanded by approximately 2.34 and 1.33 times, respectively, after the implementation of shared bicycles.

scholarly journals FUZZY ANALYSIS OF COMFORT ALONG TRAVEL CHAINS

Transport ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-212
Author(s):  
Lajos Kisgyörgy ◽  
János Tóth
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Ride Quality ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Modal Shift ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information Safety ◽  
The Individual

The competitiveness of a travel chain largely depends on the travel conditions along the sequence of journeys within the chain. This paper shows a method to analyse and to optimize the service quality along a travel chain. Travel comfort is a very important qualitative feature of the public transportation service, where travel comfort is used in a broader sense to describe ride quality and transfer quality including mobility, information, safety, security, and naturally comfort aspects. The analysis of travel comfort in the literature regards public transportation services. Several synthetic indices, which consider user judgment about service aspects, were developed to describe travel comfort, and comprehensive analyses have been published. However, to describe the competitiveness of the public transport the focus from the individual services should be moved toward the integrated service of the travel chain from the beginning to the end. The characteristics of travel comfort along the travel chain should be described and the location and rate of necessary interventions should be identified. In this paper we analyse the travel comfort features of travel chains. This paper proposes a method, which describes the travel comfort characteristics with synthetic indices based on the individual comfort indices of travel components, and uses a fuzzy approach to give an overall analysis of comfort conditions along the travel chain. The proposed method helps to identify the quality fluctuation and the weak points of a travel chain and makes the attractiveness of alternative travel chains comparable. An illustrative case study was carried out for one of the major transportation corridor of Budapest (Hungary), to exemplify the approach, where the validity of the method was tested as well. The results confirmed the usefulness and applicability of the methodology; by its application very valuable insights can be gained regarding the location and type of the necessary interventions. The results of our research are helpful to evaluate the actual service level of sustainable alternatives of individual car usage and to promote modal shift towards sustainable transportation modes.

Rural Intelligent Public Transportation System Design

2015 ◽  
pp. 623-650
Author(s):  
Leila Esmaeili ◽  
Seyyed AliReza Hashemi G.
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Trip Planning ◽  
Transportation Management ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Public Transportation System ◽  
User Centric ◽  
Public Transportation Systems ◽  
Intercity Transportation

In order to improve the level of intelligence, availability, convenience, information and humanization of rural public transportation systems, they are more willing to use modern information and communicative technologies. In addition to management services, intelligent transportation systems can provide passengers, drivers and other institutions with other services such as trip planning, tracking and so forth. In this paper the authors have attempted to present a comprehensive design of rural ITS based on cloud and grid computing, RFID, GPS, GIS, etc. through e-commerce and particularly m-commerce in order to improve the rural transportation management and presentation of user-centric services. Also according to the design, intercity transportation services to passengers are re-engineered. The results show proposed design with distribution infrastructure improves the performance of e-commerce and ISs in transportation domain. The system designed on this paper regardless of the possible challenges could efficiently cover the problems of rural transportation of newly developing countries.

Reluctance to Transmit Bad News When the Recipient is Unknown: Experiments in Five Nations

1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edgar O'Neal ◽  
Douglas Levine ◽  
James Frank
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Bad News ◽  
Frankfurt Am Main ◽  
High Importance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mum Effect ◽  
Public Transportation Systems

Postcards containing a message either high or low in importance, and either favorable or unfavorable for the recipient, were individually "lost" in the public transportation systems of Paris, Madrid, London, Geneva, and Frankfurt am Main. More postcards were returned when the message was favorable than when it was unfavorable, but only in the high importance conditions. This pattern of results occurred in each location except Madrid. The findings are discussed in terms of Rosen and Tesser's (1970) reluctance to bear bad news (MUM) effect.

scholarly journals The strategy of sustainable public transportation system in the city of Rzeszów in the frame of Eastern Poland 2014-2020 Operational Programme

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 32-35
Author(s):  
Anna Pająk ◽  
Artur Orzeł ◽  
Róża Stepaniuk
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Broad Perspective ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Financial Perspective ◽  
Complex Projects ◽  
Public Transportation System ◽  
Public Transportation Systems ◽  
The City

In the frame of Action 2.1. “Sustainable public transportation” of the II Priority Axis of the Eastern Poland 2014-2020 Operational Programme five viovodeships submitted 14 applications of investment projects of the total value of 2,1 billion PLN. The main aim of the Programme is to support complex projects of ecological integrated public transportation systems in the broad perspective of sustainable development. Three applications were submitted by the City of Rzeszów. The main aims of the projects are: the development of Intelligent Public Transportation System in Rzeszów, creation of the Communication Centre in Rzeszów as well as bus fleet modernization. The article refers to the characteristics of the projects in the context of current financial perspective of Eastern Poland Operational Programme.

scholarly journals Corridor Detection from Large GPS Trajectories Datasets

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 5003
Author(s):  
Claudia Cavallaro ◽  
Jordi Vitrià
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Minimum Length ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Gps Trajectories ◽  
Route Recommendation ◽  
Public Transportation Systems ◽  
New Applications ◽  
The City

Given the widespread use of mobile devices that track their geographical location, it has become increasingly easy to acquire information related to users’ trips in real time. This availability has triggered several studies based on user’s position, such as the analysis of flows of people in cities, and also new applications, such as route recommendation systems. Given a dataset of geographical trajectories in an urban metropolitan area, we propose a new algorithm to detect corridors. Corridors can be defined as geographical paths, with a minimum length, that are commonly traversed by a minimum number of different users. We propose an efficient strategy based on the Apriori algorithm to extract frequent trajectory patterns from the geo-spatial dataset. By discretizing the data and adapting the roles of itemsets and baskets of this algorithm to our context, we find the longest corridors formed by cells shared by a minimum number of trajectories. After that, we refine the results obtained with a subsequent filtering step, by using a Radius Neighbors Graph. To illustrate the algorithm, the GeoLife dataset is analyzed by following the proposed method. Our approach is relevant for transportation analytics because it is the base to detect lacking lines in public transportation systems and also to recommend to private users which route to take when moving from one part of the city to another on the basis of behavior of the users who provided their logs.

Rural Intelligent Public Transportation System Design

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Esmaeili ◽  
Seyyed AliReza Hashemi G.
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Trip Planning ◽  
Transportation Management ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Public Transportation System ◽  
Public Transportation Systems ◽  
Intercity Transportation

In order to improve the level of intelligence, availability, convenience, information and humanization of rural public transportation systems, they are more willing to use modern information and communicative technologies. In addition to management services, intelligent transportation systems can provide passengers, drivers and other institutions with other services such as trip planning, tracking and so forth. In this paper the authors have attempted to present a comprehensive design of rural ITS based on cloud and grid computing, RFID, GPS, GIS, etc. through e-commerce and particularly m-commerce in order to improve the rural transportation management and presentation of user-centric services. Also according to the design, intercity transportation services to passengers are re-engineered. The results show proposed design with distribution infrastructure improves the performance of e-commerce and ISs in transportation domain. The system designed on this paper regardless of the possible challenges could efficiently cover the problems of rural transportation of newly developing countries.

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