scholarly journals A Pan-European, competitive public transport system

Author(s):  
Kjell Dahlström

The author is Director-General of the Swedish National Public Transport Agency which coordinates and procures interregional public transport throughout the country. He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). His professional and political career is described in the following article which is a slightly edited and revised version of a paper presented at the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001.

Author(s):  
Arpit Verma

Abstract: In modern context the connectivity of transport system is very important and necessary in an urban and smart city. Due to more population and more vehicles in an urban city, it is not very easy to travel from one location to another location in smooth manner. Availability of different kind of transport mediums like metro, buses, auto, ola, uber etc. helps in travelling within the city by covering different locations. Metro is considered as the primarily best and easy medium for travelling with least congestion and stoppage points. After metro, bus and auto are the secondary public transport medium having frequently used by public on daily basis. Other private transit modes are also available like Ola, Uber and Rapido, who charge according to the travel length, journey time and availability of their service in that area. But if we compare all of them in terms of availability, reliability, speed and smoothness, metro is taken as best and safe way to travel without any hesitation. The connectivity of Lucknow city which is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, India, is having good connectivity in terms of metro and bus medium. But beside metro, due to lack of infrastructure and good management it is sometimes difficult to move from one part of the city to another part by other public transport system. This study will assess the different parameters of public transport system and it will provide the correlation between them. Keywords: Connectivity, Reliability, Infrastructure, Smart City, Smoothness, Transport System.


Author(s):  
P. Psomopoulos

As a documentation and communication vehicle - part of a broader effort of the Athens Center of Ekistics (ACE) to contribute to the development of a sound approach to the field of Human Settlements - Ekistics makes itself available as a free forum for the exposure of ideas and experiences from anywhere to everywhere, provided they are relevant and transferable. In this effort, writings of members of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE) have quite frequently been considered and published in Ekistics. How could our attitude be different in cases of collective efforts of the WSE such as its meetings last year in Berlin (24-28 October, 2001) with the title "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century"? Actually, we have reported on such events on various occasions in the past, the most recent being in vol. 64, no. 385/386/387, July/August-Sept./Oct.-Nov./Dec.1997 and vol. 65, no. 388/389/390, Jan./Feb.-Mar./Apr.-May/June 1998 on "Mega-Cities ...and Mega-City Regions", a conference of which the WSE was a co-sponsor together with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the University of British Columbia, Canada. We are happy that the World Society for Ekistics welcomed our proposal to consider the large number of documents made available at its meetings in Berlin and select some of the papers presented for publication in Ekistics. However, the amount of material available far exceeded the capacity even of one triple issue. Hence the following two triple issues: Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century - 1 of 2 (Ekistics, vol. 69, no. 412/413/414,January/February-March/April-May/June 2002); and, Defining Success of the City in the 21 st Century - 2 of 2 (Ekistics, vol. 69, no. 415/416/417, July/August-September/October-November/December 2002).


Author(s):  
Akhtar Chauhan

Professor Chauhan, an architect and planner, is Director, Rizvi College of Architecture, Mumbai, India. He is also a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE), and currently Past Vice-President. The text that follows is a slightly edited version of a paper made available in the author's absence to participants of the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001.


World Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1(53)) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Davyd Shatirishvili

The theoretical aspects of application of information and communication mechanism in the field of public transport are defined. The object of study is the field of public land transport services. The purpose of the article is to analyze the world experience in implementing information and communication mechanism and substantiate the need for the use of appropriate technologies in the public administration of the sphere of services in the land public transport in the capital city. The conceptual foundations of creating smart-cities are revealed. The attention is focused on the information and communication technologies as one of the areas of smart-specialization of the city of Kyiv. The world tendencies of introduction of the information-communication or smart-technologies are presented. The problems of functioning of urban transport system are revealed. The feasibility of introducing an intelligent transport system has been proved. The key issues that need to be addressed to improve the current situation in the field of the land public transport in the city of Kyiv are outlined. There is also an emphasis on improving the performance of the carrier-company. The relationship between the information- communication, regulatory, organizational, financial mechanisms is revealed. The need to involve the city dwellers in the development of the management decisions is emphasized.


Author(s):  
Udo E. Simonis

The author is Research Professor of Environmental Policy, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung GmbH (WZB),Berlin, Germany. Professor Simonis is a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE); he was Vice-President of the Society for four years and, since April 2000, has been President. The text that follows is a slightly edited and revised version of the introductory statement by Professor Simonis in his capacity as President of the World Society for Ekistics at the opening session of the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001.


Author(s):  
William Michelson

The author is S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology; and Associate Dean, Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto, Canada. Dr Michelson is also a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE). The paper that follows was presented at the WSE Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001.


Author(s):  
Marzenna Dębowska-Mróz ◽  
Ewa Ferensztajn-Galardos ◽  
Renata Krajewska ◽  
Andrzej Rogowski

The efficient functioning of the transport system in each area requires that account be taken of the fact that each journey consists of a chain of elementary movements on foot or by means of trans­port. The construction of an effective public transport system is one of the methods to reduce traffic congestion, especially in city centres. The inter-change synchronization is the way to increase the efficiency of public transport. The purpose of the paper is to present the results of research on the intensity of pedestrian traffic at interchanges as a function of time in the city of Radom. Pedestrian movements play an important role not only in the vicinity of transport nodes. Their production and quality also determine the assessment of these movements as one of the stages of production of combined movements. The tendency to pedestrian travel (or lack of it) also affects public and individual transport journeys. Based on the survey conducted in households, the structure of movement (size and motivations) of the inhabitants of Radom is given.


Author(s):  
Edward Leman

Edward Leman is an urban and regional planner, and President of Chreod Ltd., a Canadian consulting firm that has worked in China since 1988. He is a member of the World Society for Ekistics (WSE) and a former member of its Executive Council. He has written several articles for Ekistics over the past 20 years. The text that follows is a revised version of a paper which was distributed at the WSE Symposion " Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century," Berlin, 24-28 October, 2001, that the author was finally unable to attend.


Author(s):  
Athens Center Of Ekistics

The contents of the present issue come as a continuation of the previous issue of Ekistics, vol. 69, no.412/413/414, January/February-March/April-May/June 2002, with the same theme. As is explained in the table of contents (pages 2 and 3) of that issue and also reproduced in the table of contents (pages 178 and 179) of the present issue, the material used is classified as follows: The 2001 Meetings of the World Society for Ekistics, Berlin, 24-28 October Executive Council Meeting The C.A. Doxiadis Lecture Symposion: Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century General Assembly Apart from the C.A. Doxiadis Lecture, the main contents of both issues refer to the material collected before, during and, in some cases, after the Symposion "Defining Success of the City in the 21st Century". More specifically, the issues contain: Papers reflecting the presentations made during the Symposion and these concern papers delivered before and during the Symposion or documents that were prepared by the presenters after the Symposion. Papers that were made available at the Symposion by members who intended to attend but finally were totally unable to do so. These documents were made available to all participants but were never presented or discussed. Some were revised and edited by the authors. Papers that were prepared after the Symposion by members who could not attend.


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