scholarly journals Dimensional Multivariate Statistics on Quality Enhancement Systems Embraced for Rapid Transit Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 2103-2107
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Comfort Level ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Critical Dimensions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quality Practices ◽  
Traffic Reduction ◽  
Rider Comfort

The study revolves around effective quality practices embraced along the construction of a rapid transit system at the Chennai airport station concerning managers and comfort level satisfaction. It also aims to compare various dimensions of quality practices and satisfaction levels. A Dimensional survey on engineers and metro users was made and analyzed using SPSS software. The study includes mid-level managers and users of the rapid transit system at Chennai, Tamilnadu. The study has tracked down ten dimensions of quality practices such as work hardness, material standards, materials rates, alternate methods, design criteria, safety nature, structural efficiency, work efficiency, labour & work time, job satisfaction to mid-level Manager’s job satisfaction. The study also identified the other ten dimensions such as traffic reduction, Reach on-time, Smart ticketing system, female coach, daily waver Fare, Vehicle strand area, elevators, Frequency of trips, workplace access, Rider Comfort concerning Metro User's satisfaction. Besides, the study also confirmed that there is a significant impact on the reduction in Traffic reduction, On-Time, Smart ticketing system and Vehicle Strand area. The critical dimensions of the study may help the stakeholders & management to implement effective quality practices in the construction works of rapid transit systems and Services Offered to the Public community.

Commuter-Centric Resilience Index for Rapid Transit System Networks: Case Study of the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit Network

2017 ◽  
Vol 2648 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-116
Author(s):  
Jian Sheng Yeung ◽  
Jason B. P. Lee ◽  
Yun Han Wee ◽  
Keng Seng Mak
Keyword(s):  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Transit Network ◽  
The Public ◽  
Commute Time ◽  
Resilience Index ◽  
Rail Line ◽  
Mass Rapid Transit

Rapid transit systems (RTSs) will increasingly play an important role in the daily commute. However, RTSs are complex systems and are susceptible to degradation over time, and recurring RTS service disruptions are inevitable. Therefore, resilience should be considered in the design of an RTS network, to provide commuters alternative paths that enable them to work around service disruptions. This paper proposes a commuter-centric resilience index for RTS networks that is based on the concept of an acceptable commute time. The proposed index was applied to the Singapore Mass Rapid Transit network, and the findings revealed that the introduction of each new rail line increased the resilience of the RTS network. Ring lines or orbital lines appeared to be most effective in improving network resilience. The resilience index can also be determined for individual stations to help planners identify gaps in the RTS network and to provide useful insight for land use and transport planning. The proposed index would be applicable to RTS networks in other cities or regions, but while information on an RTS network can be sourced from the public domain, computation of the index requires the corresponding commuter trip data.

Unsteady Airflows in Rapid Transit Systems

1980 ◽  
Vol 194 (1) ◽  
pp. 349-356 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Vardy
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Numerical Simulation ◽  
Computer Program ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
System Parameters ◽  
Empirical Coefficients ◽  
Tunnel System ◽  
Important System

The principal aerodynamic effects in a rapid transit system are predicted by use of a computer program. Account is taken of the influence of cross-passages, ventilation shafts, cross-overs and stations, etc. on the airflows generated by any number of trains travelling along any routes with any speed histories. Very few empirical coefficients are needed to obtain satisfactory correlations with experimental data. The program is used to investigate the relative influence of important system parameters, and skin friction is found to have a particularly strong effect. It is shown that the tunnel system can be considerably simplified in the numerical simulation without serious loss of accuracy, but that account must be taken of local cross-passages and ventilation shafts.

The Dynamics of Transit Innovation in Los Angeles

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Adler
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Urban Transit ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bus Transit ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rail Rapid Transit

The recent reemergence of the private sector in urban transit, as well as private-sector-like behavior in the public sector, are manifestations of profound political and fiscal crises that are reshaping the service and institutional structure of the US transit industry, These crises developed as coalitions of competing place-based activists sought to deploy transit investments as strategic weapons to gain location advantages, The history and politics of transit in the intensely competitive Los Angeles metropolitan area illuminate these dynamics, especially the continuing conflict between downtown Los Angeles and outlying business centers on the issues of rail rapid transit and the role of the regional bus transit agency. Privatization and institutional fragmentation, facilitated in Los Angeles by passage of a transit sales tax in 1980, are the strategies of choice for outlying business centers, just as region-wide agencies and radial rail rapid transit systems have been downtown initiatives.

scholarly journals PERCEIVED SERVICE QUALITY, SATISFACTION AND BEHAVIOURAL INTENTION OF MASS RAPID TRANSIT (MRT) IN MALAYSIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (17) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Monizaihasra Mohamed ◽  
N Alia Fahada W Ab Rahman ◽  
Farizah Sulong
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Behavioural Intention ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Perceived Service Quality ◽  
The Public ◽  
New Public ◽  
Klang Valley ◽  
Simple Sampling ◽  
Mass Rapid Transit

The main aim of this study was to identify factors that influence the behaviour of consumers of the relatively new public transit system operating in Malaysia, the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT). Specifically, the objective of this study was to examine the relationship between perceived service quality, satisfaction and behavioural intention of MRT users in Malaysia. The structured questionnaire will be used as the primary method for collecting data from MRT users around the Klang Valley. They will be selected based on simple sampling techniques. The questionnaire developed will use instruments taken from previous studies. Feedback from MRT users to be collected at a mall intercept around Klang Valley will be analysed using Structured Equation Modelling (SEM) technique. The findings of this study are expected to help policy makers, especially transport policy to determine the direction of developing the public transport industry in Malaysia to improve the quality of life of the public service users in Malaysia, as well as contribute to the development and economy of the local and national population.

scholarly journals Developing Transit Station Design Criteria with a Focus on Intermodal Connectivity

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geophrey Mbatta ◽  
Thobias Sando ◽  
Ren Moses
Keyword(s):  
High Capacity ◽  
Automobile Driving ◽  
Bus Rapid Transit ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Transit Station

The safe and efficient movement of passengers to and from the high-capacity transit system to other modes of transportation is of paramount importance to transportation officials. Transit stations are the primary interfaces for passengers with the transit system. This paper presents a procedure which could be used to develop station design criteria and guidelines with a focus on intermodal connectivity. The proposed procedure may be used for developing station design criteria and guidelines for high-capacity transit systems including rail project and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). A successful implementation of the transit projects will result in higher ridership rates and hence reduce dependency on automobile driving along Florida highways.

A Long Wait for a Train

Last Subway ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Philip Mark Plotch
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Transit System ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Subway Stations ◽  
Comprehensive Plans

This introductory chapter provides an overview of New York's near-mythical subway under Second Avenue. Since the 1930s, the line has symbolized New York's inability to modernize its infrastructure and accommodate its residents. While the number of people living and working in New York City has grown, its rapid transit system of underground and elevated rail lines has shrunk. Moreover, while politicians have repeatedly promised a Second Avenue subway to help advance their own careers, they have failed to acknowledge the enormous challenges involved in paying for it. Nevertheless, the first three of sixteen planned Second Avenue subway stations opened to the public on New Year's Day in 2017. On a per-mile basis, the completed section of the Second Avenue subway was the most expensive subway extension ever built anywhere in the world. Given its limited resources, New York has to make tough decisions about prioritizing subway improvements. Ultimately, the Second Avenue subway story reveals how rebuilding and expanding the subway requires visionary leaders. Transportation officials must develop comprehensive plans, civic and business leaders need to generate public support, and elected officials must champion improvements and secure resources.

scholarly journals A Novel Trip Coverage Index for Transit Accessibility Assessment Using Mobile Phone Data

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhengyi Cai ◽  
Dianhai Wang ◽  
Xiqun (Michael) Chen
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Base Stations ◽  
Mobile Phone Data ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transit Accessibility ◽  
Transit Services ◽  
The Individual

Transit accessibility is an important measure on the service performance of transit systems. To assess whether the public transit service is well accessible for trips of specific origins, destinations, and origin-destination (OD) pairs, a novel measure, the Trip Coverage Index (TCI), is proposed in this paper. TCI considers both the transit trip coverage and spatial distribution of individual travel demands. Massive trips between cellular base stations are estimated by using over four-million mobile phone users. An easy-to-implement method is also developed to extract the transit information and driving routes for millions of requests. Then the trip coverage of each OD pair is calculated. For demonstrative purposes, TCI is applied to the transit network of Hangzhou, China. The results show that TCI represents the better transit trip coverage and provides a more powerful assessment tool of transit quality of service. Since the calculation is based on trips of all modes, but not only the transit trips, TCI offers an overall accessibility for the transit system performance. It enables decision makers to assess transit accessibility in a finer-grained manner on the individual trip level and can be well transformed to measure transit services of other cities.

Effect of Fare Policies on Dwell Time

2017 ◽  
Vol 2649 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Egge ◽  
Zhen (Sean) Qian ◽  
Amy Silbermann
Keyword(s):  
Dwell Time ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Mass Transit ◽  
Bus Rapid Transit ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Allegheny County ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Location Data ◽  
Transit Routes

Bus fares may be collected when passengers board or immediately before they alight. Little work has been done to quantify the impacts of entry fare and exit fare policies on passenger stop delay, namely the dwell time. The Port Authority of Allegheny County (PAAC), Pennsylvania, is one of few mass transit systems to currently employ both entry fare and exit fare policies. PAAC’s alternating fare policy offers an ideal natural experiment for investigating the effect of fare collection policy on dwell time. PAAC automated passenger counter and automatic vehicle location data were analyzed to estimate dwell time under no fare collection and entry fare and exit fare policies. The study found that the choice of fare policy can significantly affect the dwell time associated with fare payment but also that the effect of fare policy varies with route characteristics. The findings suggest that a transit system that seeks to minimize the contribution of fare payment to total trip dwell time may be most effective by operating an entry fare policy on local routes with frequent stops and evenly distributed ridership and an exit fare policy on express and bus rapid transit routes with fewer stops and substantial passenger movements at major stops.

Privatisation of fixed-rail transit systems: a case study of Malaysia's STAR and PUTRA

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 846-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul-Rashid Abdul-Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Capital City ◽  
Light Rail ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Light Rail Transit ◽  
Kuala Lumpur ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Privatisation Programme

Since the early 1980s, many public utilities have been privatised under Malaysia's privatisation programme. A few, however, have since prematurely returned to government hands, among them the two light-rail transit systems in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, STAR and PUTRA. This paper chronicles the pre- and post-privatisation events of both facilities before attempting to provide rational explanation behind their untimely surrender to the public domain. Based on publicly available material, this paper argues that neither the quality of government negotiators nor the length of time devoted to negotiating could be attributed to the bailout. Nor is there hint that political favouritism and corruption were at play. More than likely, despite the copious incentives provided to the two concession companies, the two projects proved financially unviable.Key words: build–operate–transfer (BOT), Malaysia, privatisation, light-rail transit system.

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