Need to use advance notice for urban public transport drivers.

Carbohydrate metabolism disturbances among public transport drivers--the need for regulations in Poland.

INTRODUCTION The discussion on the relationship between diabetes and driving has continued in recent years all over the world. The issue of diabetes, its treatment models, the risk of hypoglycaemia and license to drive are receiving considerable attention. Driving ability is controlled by specific regulations. Polish legislation does not provide standard procedures for dealing with the question...

Urban Public Transport Challenges

This paper focuses on a number of challenges faced by the public transport industry and the prospects for resolution. Many of the issues are often shrouded in ideology, politics and prejudices that typically cloud the real merits of a solution. We argue that public transport is increasingly a niche provider of land passenger transport services, which if positioned and managed better will be cap...

Public Transport Ontology for Passenger Information Retrieval

Passenger information aims at improving the user-friendliness of public transport systems while influencing passenger route choices to satisfy transit user’s travel requirements. The integration of transit information from multiple agencies is a major challenge in implementation of multi-modal passenger information systems. The problem of information sharing is further compounded by the multi-l...

The Transport-ticket System in Brazil for Urban Public Transport

The transport-ticket program was disposed at law in Brazil at end of 1985 but became compulsory for the companies only at the end of 1987.The program appeared to decrease the social tension at big cities caused by the poor functioning of the urban collective transport system, with crowd revolts and depredations. The program intends to facilitate the modernization and maintenance of quality o f ...

Service Reliability and Urban Public Transport Design