Analysis of public transport demand in the Municipality of Stupnik

Public transport is the backbone of urban mobility, providing people with access to employment, education, trade and daily activities. It provides a special benefit to people who do not own a car and are dependent on well-organized public transport. The paper presents an analysis of the demand for public transport services in the Municipality of Stupnik, otherwise organized in the form of bus transport. The paper presents the methodology used, as well as the obtained results, and the associated discussion and conclusion.

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Indore City Bus Transport Service (B)

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad ◽

10.1108/case.iima.2020.000045 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 1-29

Author(s):

G Raghuram ◽

Satyam Shivam Sundaram ◽

Himanshu Patni

Keyword(s):

Transport System ◽

Public Transport ◽

Madhya Pradesh ◽

Maintenance Cost ◽

Transport Service ◽

The Public ◽

City Bus ◽

Transport Services ◽

Public Transport Services ◽

Bus Transport

Towards the end of 90s, mounting losses forced Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (MPSRTC), the sole provider of public transport in Madhya Pradesh, to suspend their urban services. As a consequence, organized public transport services ceased to exist in Indore, the largest metropolitan city of the state of Madhya Pradesh. This void was filled by Intermediate Public Transport (IPT) consisting of minibuses, tempos and auto rickshaws. As of January 2004, 300 private minibuses, 150 tempos, and 10,000 auto rickshaws were plying as IPT, but with poor service levels. Lack of public transport was a catalyst for rapid increase in personalized vehicles, and high level of pollution and accidents. Worried over the rapid growth of personalized vehicles, and high levels of pollution and accidents in Indore, policy makers and administrators had made several attempts of reviving the public transport system in the city. In 2005, the Collector and District Magistrate of Indore decided to make another attempt of reviving the public transport. The two cases, Indore City Bus Transport Service (A) and Indore City Bus Transport Service (B) discuss the complexity involved in the planning, rolling out, and running of public transport services in Indore on a sustainable basis. Case (A) details the prevalent socio-economic condition, travel characteristics, and positions taken by various stakeholders on provisioning of public transport service in Indore as of November 2005. Case (B) discusses the challenges during the growth and operation of the services as of June 2008. Unprecedented rise in crude oil prices along with (i) increase in maintenance cost of buses, price of new buses, and bank interest and (ii) decrease/marginal increase in the fare box revenue (more people were shifting to passes) and advertisement revenue depleted the margin of the operators. The fares had not been increased since the launch of services in February 2006. It was clear that Indore City Transport Service Limited (ICTSL), the SPV created to run the transport system, would survive only if operators were able to survive. The readers have to take the position of the board of ICTSL and consider various options available to them for running the services on a sustainable basis.

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Problems with the implementation of bus transport contracting in South Africa

Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management ◽

10.4102/jtscm.v6i1.30 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jackie Walters ◽

Gert Heyns

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Public Transport ◽

White Paper ◽

Extensive Study ◽

Competitive Tendering ◽

Transport Services ◽

Operational Issues ◽

Bus Services ◽

Public Transport Services ◽

Bus Transport

South Africa has had a policy of competitive tendering for the provision of public transport services (subsidised commuter bus services) since the mid-1980s. Although this policy approach was conceptualised by the previous government, prior to the transfer of political power in 1994, it was reaffirmed in a 1996 White Paper on National Transport Policy. Despite the nearly 25 years that have passed since the intention to tender services, only about 32% of the subsidy budget is currently spent on some form of contracting. The majority of services are still operated on authorisations (interim contracts) which formalised services that operators were operating pre-1994. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the reasons why public transport contracting policy progress has been so slow in South Africa. The paper relies on an extensive study that was conducted regarding policy implementation obstacles in general, as well as a questionnaire survey among the subsidised commuter bus operators to solicit their views on the reasons for the delay in the implementation of the contracting system in the country. The findings of the survey indicate that the major issues hindering the implementation of the contracting system are to be found in a lack of funding, lack of capacity to implement policy and major operational issues in the permit offices.

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Elaboração do Plano de Mobilidade Urbana de uma cidade de pequeno porte: o caso de Cachoeira do Sul, Brasil

Ciência e Natura ◽

10.5902/2179460x40588 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

pp. 20

Author(s):

Vagner Stefanello ◽

Enzo Del Olmo Pozzatti ◽

Tailor Johann Bueno ◽

Brenda Medeiros Pereira ◽

Alejandro Ruiz- Padillo

Keyword(s):

Public Transport ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Sustainable Mobility ◽

Transport Services ◽

The City ◽

Santa Maria ◽

Public Transport Services

Following the approval of Law 12.587.12 and an institution of the National Urban Mobility Policy, Brazilian municipalities started adapting new principles of sustainable mobility, thus preparing their Mobility Plans. The city of Cachoeira do Sul, with support from the Santa Maria Federal University (Cachoeira do Sul Campus), has recently developed its plan that focus on current city needs and prioritizing non-motorized modes of transport and public transport services. This paper aims at presenting the process of developing the Plan and extension actions to promote it. During its development, meetings and workshops related to the theme were held, as well as public audiences and technologies were again involved in the analysis of the city's needs regarding mobility. The information collected based diagnostics and analysis to solve current problems. Finally, this paper also presents activities related to the implementation of the Urban Mobility Plan, which shall succeed through actions implemented, their effective monitoring and the support of the population for the principles of sustainable mobility.

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Indore City Bus Transport Service (A)

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad ◽

10.1108/case.iima.2020.000044 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 1-15

Author(s):

G Raghuram ◽

Satyam Shivam Sundaram

Keyword(s):

Transport System ◽

Public Transport ◽

Madhya Pradesh ◽

Transport Service ◽

The Public ◽

City Bus ◽

Transport Services ◽

The City ◽

Public Transport Services ◽

Bus Transport

Towards the end of 90s, mounting losses forced Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (MPSRTC), the sole provider of public transport in Madhya Pradesh, to suspend their urban services. As a consequence, organized public transport services ceased to exist in Indore, the largest metropolitan city of the state of Madhya Pradesh. This void was filled by Intermediate Public Transport (IPT) consisting of minibuses, tempos and auto rickshaws. As of January 2004, 300 private minibuses, 150 tempos, and 10,000 auto rickshaws were plying as IPT, but with poor service levels. Lack of public transport was a catalyst for rapid increase in personalized vehicles, and high level of pollution and accidents. Worried over the rapid growth of personalized vehicles, and high levels of pollution and accidents in Indore, policy makers and administrators had made several attempts of reviving the public transport system in the city. In 2005, the Collector and District Magistrate of Indore decided to make another attempt of reviving the public transport. The two cases, Indore City Bus Transport Service (A) and Indore City Bus Transport Service (B) discuss the complexity involved in the planning, rolling out, and running of public transport services in Indore on a sustainable basis. Case (A) details the prevalent socio-economic condition, travel characteristics, and positions taken by various stakeholders on provisioning of public transport service in Indore as of November 2005. The readers have to conceptualize the transport system for the city and take the position of the Collector and District Magistrate of Indore to prepare a note that would be submitted to the state cabinet for their approval. Case (B) discusses the challenges during the growth and operation of the services as of June 2008.

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ASSESING THE BUCHAREST’S PUBLIC TRANSPORT NETWORK BY USING THE QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT TOOL

Business Excellence and Management ◽

10.24818/beman/2020.10.1-03 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 31-40

Author(s):

Ruxandra DINULESCU ◽

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Alexandru-Mihai BUGHEANU ◽

Adina-Liliana PRIOTEASA ◽

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...

Keyword(s):

Public Transport ◽

Quality Function Deployment ◽

Short Review ◽

Quality Function ◽

Innovative Strategies ◽

The Public ◽

Transport Services ◽

Public Transport Services ◽

Qfd Method ◽

Bus Transport

The Bucharest public transport networks need to establish innovative strategies in order to improve their overall service quality. Therefore, in order to accomplish this objective, the current study will evaluate public transport customer demands applying the Quality Function Deployment (QFD). Furthermore, the research aims to highlight user requirements and to evaluate an appropriate strategy to improve the current public transport services. Thus, for determining the users’ satisfaction, a survey with a sample of 175 respondents was carried out, and the outcomes of the survey were used as input data for defining the QFD method. The objective of this paper is to present the public bus transport users’ demands, as well as alternatives to improve the main weakness noticed in the bus transportation system. In addition, the article will present a short review of the literature and the research methodology for the QFD. The key findings of this study will focus on presenting, based on the QFD methodology, the main projects that need to be started, in order to improve a part of the main users’ dissatisfaction regarding the public bus network.

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COVID-19 IN THE PERIPHERY OF CURITIBA: Urban Mobility as a “thermometer” of inequality

Revista Observatório ◽

10.20873/uft.2447-4266.2020v6n2a5en ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. a5en

Author(s):

Marcelo Nogueira de Souza ◽

Maria Tarcisa Silva Bega

Keyword(s):

Coping Strategies ◽

Public Transport ◽

Health Department ◽

Health Facilities ◽

Urban Mobility ◽

Transport Services ◽

Postdoctoral Research ◽

Public Transport Services ◽

Municipal Health ◽

Peripheral Regions

The article presents some partial results of the author's postdoctoral research and analyzes how the coping strategies for Covid-19 in the periphery of Curitiba, adopted by the Municipal Health Department, can be impacted by the decrease in urban mobility, because, although the reduction of public transport services is a relevant strategy to limit the spread of the virus, in practice, it has revealed itself as a potential catalyst for uncontrolled transmission, as it promotes agglomerations, precisely in the peripheral regions furthest from health facilities capable of treating more severe cases of the disease.

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Building a Model of Integration of Urban Sharing and Public Transport Services

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13063086 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (6) ◽

pp. 3086

Author(s):

Marcin Jacek Kłos ◽

Grzegorz Sierpiński

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Public Transport ◽

Urban Transport ◽

Extensive Literature ◽

Transport Services ◽

Harmful Emissions ◽

Specific Factors ◽

The Given ◽

Public Transport Services ◽

Potential Area

The intense growth of cities affects their inhabitants to a considerable extent. The issues facing the traveling population include congestion and growing harmful emissions. Urban transport requires changes towards eco-friendly solutions. However, even though new forms of traveling (sharing services) are being implemented, their integration with public transport remains problematic. On account of the large number of available services combined with the absence of their integration, city inhabitants are faced with the dilemma of choosing between one or several transport modes which would enable them to make the given trip. The main goal of this article is to propose a model for integration of different transport services which could support those who intend to travel in the decision-making process. Therefore, the parameters of a model of urban sharing services were identified and classified. The parameters discussed in the paper with reference to an extensive literature review describe how individual sharing services are functioning. What has also been identified is the location-specific factors as well as those related to the potential area of operation which affect the integration with public transport. In order to take all the relevant parameters into account and find a solution to the problem at hand, a multi-criteria decision-making approach has been proposed. To this end, scores and weights determining their impact on the model have been established. For purposes of the solution in question, the relevant calculations were conducted by referring to an actual need to travel between selected locations.

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