ANALYSIS OF UKRAINE’S TRANSITION TO STIMULATING TARIFFS

The prerequisites of public transport electrification and the need to reduce CO2 emissions in the transport sector are investigated. It has been established that electricity is a universal energy source that can help diversify primary energy sources for transport and increase energy security. Positive socio-economic effects from the use of electricity in the transport sector are identified. The competitive advantages of using electric transport in the system of public transportation are determined. Global experience of electrification of passenger transportation is analyzed. An important driving force for the creation and development of the market was government support, which was carried out by adopting relevant legislative norms and implementing various initiatives at both the national and regional levels. The development of the legislative framework for the support of environmentally friendly modes of transport in the world economy markets is divided into stages. The current state of public electric transport in Ukraine is explored. The system of reform measures for the public electric transport in Ukraine is determined.

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ANALISIS BIAYA OPERASIONAL KENDARAAN (BOK) DAN WTP (WILLINGNESS TO PAY) PADA BUS AKAP JURUSAN BANJARMASIN - SAMARINDA

Jurnal Kacapuri : Jurnal Keilmuan Teknik Sipil ◽

10.31602/jk.v1i2.1779 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 115

Author(s):

Bagus Nugroho Putra ◽

Utami Sylvia Lestari

Keyword(s):

Willingness To Pay ◽

Public Transportation ◽

Operating Costs ◽

Bus Drivers ◽

The Public ◽

Passenger Transportation ◽

The Pacific ◽

Wide Range ◽

Transportation Facilities

Kota Banjarmasin adalah ibu kota provinsi dari Kalimantan Selatan dengan berbagai macam aktivitas. Salah satu angkutan umum Kota Banjarmasin adalah bus AKAP (Antar Kota Antar Provinsi) PO. Pulau Indah Jaya yang melayani transportasi penumpang dengan tujuan kota dan provinsi. Sarana transportasi memiliki tarif biaya yang ditentukan berdasarkan Biaya Operasional Kendaraan (BOK). Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui besar BOK bus AKAP dengan metode Pacific Consultant International (PCI) dan untuk mengetahui besar tarif yang diinginkan penumpang beserta tanggapan terhadap tarif yang berlaku saat ini Willingness To Pay (WTP).Penelitian ini dilakukan melalui survei wawancara untuk BOK kepada pihak PO. dan sopir bus dengan jumlah data 25 unit bus dan untuk WTP survei wawancara dengan sampel 200 penumpang bus di terminal KM 6 tempat pembelian tiket bus.Besar BOK yang dikeluarkan oleh PO. Pulau Indah Jaya Rp Rp 8.137.912.279 /tahun (bus Non AC) dengan tarif Rp 168.194 /penumpang dan Rp 8.712.239.580 /tahun (bus AC+Toilet) dengan tarif Rp 229.173 /penumpang. Besar nilai WTP bus Non AC Rp 185.000 /penumpang dan AC+Toilet Rp 245.000 /penumpang. Tanggapan terhadap tarif bus AKAP Non AC Rp 175.000 /penumpang dan AC+Toilet Rp 235.000 /penumpang adalah harga tarif bus sesuai dengan kemampuan penumpang membayar dan mau membayar lebih dengan syarat adanya penambahan pelayanan dan fasilitas.Kata Kunci: Bus AKAP, Biaya Operasional Kendaraan (BOK), Willingness To Pay (WTP)banjarmasin city is the capital of the province of South Borneo with a wide range of activities. One of the public transportation of Banjarmasin city is the bus AKAP (Inter-City Inter Province) PO. Pulau Indah Jaya which serves passenger transportation with a city and provincial destinations. Transportation facilities have a fee that is determined based on Vehicle Operating Costs (VOC). The purpose of this study is to find out the size of the bus AKAP VOC with the Pacific Consultant International (PCI) method and to find out the number of tariffs desired by passengers along with responses to the current rates of Willingness To Pay (WTP).This research was conducted through interview surveys for VOC to PO. parties and bus drivers with data on 25 bus units and for WTP interview surveys with a sample of 200 bus passengers at the terminal KM 6 places to buy bus tickets.VOC amount issued by PO. Pulau Indah Jaya Rp. 8.137.912.279 /year (Non AC buses) with a tariff of Rp 168.194 /passenger and Rp. 8.712.239.580 /year (AC + Toilet bus) at a rate of Rp. 229.173 /passenger. The value of the Non AC WTP bus is Rp. 185.000 /passenger and the AC + Toilet Rp. 245.000 /passenger. The response to the AKAP Non AC bus fare of Rp. 175.000 /passenger and AC + Toilet Rp. 235.000 /passenger is the price of the bus fare according to the ability of the passengers to pay and pay more on the condition of additional services and facilities.Keywords: Bus AKAP, Vehicle Operating Costs (VOC), willingness to pay (WTP)

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BUCHAREST PUBLIC TRANSPORT: CHALLENGES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Business Excellence and Management ◽

10.24818/beman/2021.s.i.2-08 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (S.I.2) ◽

Author(s):

Andreea Daniela TUDOR

Keyword(s):

Public Transport ◽

Public Transportation ◽

Transport Sector ◽

Research Database ◽

Safety Measures ◽

The Public ◽

The People ◽

To Come ◽

Main Barrier ◽

The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic had and its still having a big impact on mobility since the end of 2018, when it started. Public transportation was already facing issues in all the big metropolitan cities where many people are in the same space at the same time. If we add the COVID-19 consequences and rules, public transit is the main barrier for community members to go back to their daily routines being safe and comfortable. This paper presents the changes in the public transport sector since COVID-19 started and aims to explore the consequences and possible alternatives to mitigate the impact of the pandemic crisis. As research method I decided to analyze and summarize numerous primary sources along with the public transport operators official websites. Both quantitative and qualitative data were used by doing a comprehensive research in ProQuest Central, Coronavirus Research Database, Elsevier ScienceDirect and Web of Science. The results suggest that reduction of mobility has been the first measure to slow the growth of the worldwide COVID-19 cases. However, the transport limitations dont have the same impact for all modes of transport, public transport having one of the most considerable decline so far. In Bucharest, the public transport operators have imposed safety measures such as mask wearing, periodic cleaning, transparency and access to the information. Those aspects are important, but sometimes not sufficient to fight against the pandemic. What this research does is to come and complete the set of safety measures focusing on mitigating the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and increase the safety of the people while using public transport vehicles.

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A Real-Time Machine Learning Based Public Transport Bus-Passenger Information System

10.31224/osf.io/2ubv9 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Menzi Skhosana ◽

Absalom Ezugwu

Keyword(s):

Machine Learning ◽

Real Time ◽

Public Transport ◽

Public Transportation ◽

Web Application ◽

Predictive Analytics ◽

Current Status ◽

Transport Sector ◽

The Public ◽

Cost Efficient

The era of Big Data and the Internet of Things is upon us, and it is time for developing countries to take advantage of and pragmatically apply these ideas to solve real-world problems. Many problems faced daily by the public transportation sector can be resolved or mitigated through the collection of appropriate data and application of predictive analytics. In this body of work, we are primarily focused on problems affecting public transport buses. These include the unavailability of real-time information to commuters about the current status of a given bus or travel route; and the inability of bus operators to efficiently assign available buses to routes for a given day based on expected demand for a particular route. A cloud-based system was developed to address the aforementioned. This system is composed of two subsystems, namely a mobile application for commuters to provide the current location and availability of a given bus and other related information, which can also be used by drivers so that the bus can be tracked in real-time and collect ridership information throughout the day, and a web application that serves as a dashboard for bus operators to gain insights from the collected ridership data. These were integrated with a machine learning model trained on collected ridership data to predict the daily ridership for a given route. Our novel system provides a holistic solution to problems in the public transport sector, as it is highly scalable, cost-efficient and takes full advantage of the currently available technologies in comparison with other previous work in this topic.

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Improving the UX for Users of Automated Shuttle Buses in Public Transport: Investigating Aspects of Exterior Communication and Interior Design

Multimodal Technologies and Interaction ◽

10.3390/mti5100061 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (10) ◽

pp. 61

Author(s):

Andreas Riener ◽

Dominik Schlackl ◽

Julia Malsam ◽

Josef Huber ◽

Benjamin Homm ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Interior Design ◽

Public Transport ◽

Public Transportation ◽

New Technologies ◽

User Centered Design ◽

The Public ◽

Design Concepts ◽

Current State ◽

Human Driver ◽

Study Participants

As a precursor to future public transportation, automated shuttle buses can already be experienced in some test regions, but the general public still has reservations and may not yet be ready for this change. For example, the fact that such vehicles might operate independently (without a human driver) creates a barrier of uncertainty and mistrust among people. In this work, we aim to identify and classify the prevailing reservations and propose solutions. We followed the User Centered Design (UCD) process to design concepts that are specifically tailored to the needs of future public transport users. After related work analysis, on-site research, and pre-studies, two main studies were conducted specifically to address communication in the exterior (n = 24) and interior/service design (n = 21). For both studies, we applied a mixed-methods approach combining quantitative and qualitative measures. Our results indicate that, in general, existing ways of communication in the exterior are insufficient to meet future needs. The two visualization concepts for external communication developed in this work were rated (significantly) better in most dimensions of the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ), when compared to the baseline condition with no additional visualization. Furthermore, preferences among the study participants towards simple, highly visible, and well-known lighting concepts could be observed. As for the interior, the results show that participants rated attractiveness highly for the two design concepts (closer, further in the future) as compared to current, state-of-the-art solutions (automated buses currently in operation). For the “near future” concept, the pragmatic quality dominated, while in the other (the “far future”) concept the hedonic quality was in the foreground. From the results, design recommendations in different categories were derived, which reflect the general openness of the public towards new technologies and interior approaches, but also point out the importance for privacy and designated personal spaces inside an (automated) shuttle bus. Some of the results do not strictly apply to automated shuttle buses, and can serve as valuable suggestions for improving conventional shuttle buses.

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Planning the Ridesharing Route for the First-Mile Service Linking to Railway Passenger Transportation

2017 Joint Rail Conference ◽

10.1115/jrc2017-2251 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Zheyong Bian ◽

Xiang Liu

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Mixed Integer ◽

Routing Problem ◽

The Public ◽

Passenger Transportation ◽

Transportation Service ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Neighborhood Structures ◽

Railway Passenger ◽

Short Time

First-mile and last-mile travel is the bottleneck of using the public transportation service. This paper considers the passenger matching and vehicle routing problem in the first-mile ridesharing service connecting train schedules. Then a mixed integer model is proposed to formulate the problem. Since the problem is NP hard, we develop a simulated annealing (SA) algorithm with four neighborhood structures to solve this problem. Experiments are designed to test the proposed model and algorithm. The experimental results verify the effectiveness of the algorithm and demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can obtain satisfactory solutions within a reasonably short time.

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Public transportation solutions in Southern Africa: case study Zimbabwe and South Africa

Transport Economics and Logistics ◽

10.26881/etil.2018.79.06 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 79 ◽

pp. 77-86

Author(s):

Giuseppe T. Cirella ◽

Carole Mtizi ◽

Felix O. Iyalomhe

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Case Studies ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Public Transport ◽

Public Transportation ◽

Transport Sector ◽

The Public ◽

Gps Technology ◽

Universal Solution

Our research investigates current challenges faced in southern Africa’s public transport sector and proposes a possible solution to overcome these challenges. Using South Africa and Zimbabwe as case studies, we identify shared challenges experienced in both countries for which a universal solution may be adopted. It was found that these challenges could mostly be attributed to government actions. We propose a need for better integration of social outcomes within public transport policy at the strategic, tactical and operational levels throughout the region. Moreover, we suggest that technology-driven solutions can be introduced in the public transport realm, amongst other solutions, entailing a universal cashless payment system coupled with GPS technology.

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Transforming Urban Public Transportation: A Lean Enterprise Approach

Journal of Business & Economics Research (JBER) ◽

10.19030/jber.v6i7.2444 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 6 (7) ◽

Author(s):

Dennis F.X. Mathaisel ◽

Scott A. Hirsch ◽

Clare L. Comm

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Enterprise Architecture ◽

Mass Transit ◽

Mass Transportation ◽

Font Size ◽

The Public ◽

Lean Enterprise ◽

Current State ◽

Oriented Approach

Much urban mass transportation is perceived as providing second-rate service, existing for the disenfranchised, and possibly not being safe.  Once, mass transit recognized and filled a need in major urban areas for efficient intra-city transportation, but people’s needs have changed.  The goal of this paper is to characterize the current state of urban mass transportation and develop a practical multi-disciplinary business-oriented approach to reenergize transit and to form the type of mass appeal that cars and passenger airlines have.  Based on a Lean Enterprise Architecture for transforming the public sector, and using global examples, the authors propose a plan of action to improve and change the image of urban mass transportation.

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State of the Art of Automated Buses

10.20944/preprints201807.0218.v2 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Jaagup Ainsalu ◽

Ville Arffman ◽

Mauro Bellone ◽

Maximilian Ellner ◽

Taina Haapamäki ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Public Transportation ◽

State Of The Art ◽

Legal Framework ◽

The Public ◽

Current State ◽

Last Mile ◽

Baltic Sea Region ◽

The Baltic ◽

The Impact

Urban transportation in the next few decades will shift worldwide towards electrification and automation, with the final aim of increasing energy efficiency and safety for passengers. Such a big change requires strong collaboration and efforts among public administration, research and stakeholders in developing, testing and promoting these technologies in the public transportation. Working in this direction, in the present work the impact of the introduction of driverless electric minibuses, for the first and last mile transportation, in the public service is studied. More specifically, this paper covers a state of the art in terms of technological background for automation, energy efficiency via electrification, and the current state of the legal framework in Europe with focus on the Baltic Sea Region.

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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS DURING THE PANDEMIC

Вестник ГГНТУ. Гуманитарные и социально-экономические науки ◽

10.34708/gstou.2021.92.31.003 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 21-27

Author(s):

А. И. Прокофьева

Keyword(s):

Transport Sector ◽

It Infrastructure ◽

The Public ◽

Market Participants ◽

Social Sphere ◽

Special Support ◽

Current State ◽

The Social ◽

Crisis Support ◽

Coronavirus Infection

В статье автор изучает современное состояние рынка государственно-частного партнерства, а также сфер, наиболее и наименее пострадавших от последствий пандемии, вызванной коронавирусной инфекцией. Был сделан вывод, что пандемия нанесла огромный вред всем отраслям и сферам, в том числе и ГЧП. Исходя из статистических данных, автор констатирует, что наибольший урон нанесен проектам в социальной сфере, а также коммунально-энергетической сфере. Наибольшую стабильность демонстрирует транспортная сфера и сфера it-инфраструктуры. Автор пришел к выводу, что органы государственной власти принимают меры антикризисной поддержки регионов посредством запуска программы, основанной на содействии в подготовке и запуске ГЧП-проектов. Для сферы грузовых и пассажирских перевозок, сферы культуры, спорта и туризма были приняты особые меры поддержки. Однако не все регионы активно подключились к этой программе, что свидетельствует об отсутствии заинтересованности власти в развитии ГЧП и стабилизации экономики. По мнению автора, для преодоления последствий пандемии необходимо оказание прямой финансовой помощи, а также развитие цифровых и платформенных решений для эффективного диалога всех участников рынка, стимулирование внебюджетных инвестиционных ресурсов. In the article the author examine the current state of the public-private partnership market, as well as the areas most and least affected by the consequences of the pandemic caused by coronavirus infection. It was concluded that the pandemic has caused huge damage to all industries and areas, including PPPs. Based on statistical data, the authors state that the greatest damage was caused to projects in the social sphere, as well as in the utilities and energy sectors. The transport sector and the IT infrastructure sector demonstrate the greatest stability. The author concluded that the state authorities are taking measures to provide anti-crisis support to the regions by launching a program based on assistance in the preparation and launch of PPP projects. Special support measures were taken for cargo and passenger transport, culture, sports and tourism. However, not all regions actively participated in this program, which indicates the lack of interest of the authorities in the development of PPP and the stabilization of the economy. According to the author, in order to overcome the consequences of the pandemic, it is necessary to provide direct financial assistance, as well as to develop digital and platform solutions for an effective dialogue of all market participants, to stimulate extra-budgetary investment resources, etc.

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Approach of evaluation the effects from implementation the projects of construction new passenger maglev lines

Transportation systems and technology ◽

10.17816/transsyst202061161-173 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 161-173

Author(s):

Sergey A. Smirnov ◽

Olga Yu. Smirnova ◽

Iana V. Sokolova

Keyword(s):

Public Transportation ◽

Cumulative Effect ◽

Objective Evaluation ◽

Transportation Services ◽

The Public ◽

Passenger Transportation ◽

Transportation Service ◽

Transportation Accessibility ◽

Mode Of Transport

Background: the aim of public passenger transportation service systems is improvement of the services quality while the competition between different modes of transport for transportation volumes and routes. Complex and objective evaluation of effects caused by construction of a passenger maglev line require the research of approach, which focused on detecting the changes in quality of public transportation services and anthropologic impact on environment. Aim: research of the approach, which allow to do comparative evaluation of complex of effects, which appear while implementation the maglev transport into the public passenger transportation service system. Methods: mathematical statistics, sociological researches, comparative analysis, modelling. Results: for evaluation of effectiveness of different modes of transport for public passenger transportation services researches the approach to calculation the integrated index of consumer appeal of a mode of transport; for evaluation of practical benefits of maglev transport implementation researched the approach to calculation direct and indirect effects, which are the basis of a cumulative effect calculation. In addition, researched the approach for calculation the additional effects, which allow to evaluate the improvement of transportation accessibility, operational effects and ecological effects. Conclusion: The approach allows to do objective evaluation of benefits of implementation new transportation mode into the system of public passenger transportation service at particular routes, which is the basis of its implementation into the practice.

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