Bus-Stop Sami: Transient Temples in Urban South India

Dietary patterns in urban school children in South India.

The dietary patterns and extent of overweight in 307 urban school going children aged 7 to 15 years representing various socio-economic strata was evaluated at baseline of a 3 year longitudinal study. Dietary habits were recorded through interviewer-administered questionnaires. Height and weight were measured and 8.2% of the children were over-weight or obese. Children from higher socio-economi...

Optimization of Urban Mini-bus Stop Spacing: a Case Study of Shanghai (china)

Preliminary communication In recent years, the mini-bus service has gained a rapid development, while the reasonable stop spacing is significant to improve residents’ travel efficiency. In order to locate the mini-bus stops practically, this paper firstly proposes a mathematical model based on Voronoi Diagrams to minimize residents’ total travel time. Improved Wilson-Han-Powell Sequential Quadr...

Valuing Urban Bus Attributes

The article presents the marginal willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates for various qualitative and quantitative attributes of travel with reference to the bus transportation system in Kolkata City, India. A stated choice experiment is designed to capture the responses for estimating marginal WTP values for various attributes. WTP values are estimated separately for commuting and noncommuting trip...

Transit Assignment Model Based on Bus Stop

A public transit network differs from a general road network. The passenger flow of bus stops and the limited capacity of buses have a greater effect than road traffic flow on the running time of buses. As a result, conventional public transit assignment models that adopt the econometric road network path concept have numerous limitations. Based on the analysis, the generalized bus trip time ch...

Dharmic Projects, Imperial Reservoirs, or New Temples of India? An Historical Perspective on Dams in India