Public Transportation: Advantages and Challenges

Challenges in RFID Deployment – A Case Study in Public Transportation

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags have been proposed for use in novel ways for hundreds of applications. RFIDs hold the promise of revolutionizing business processes. This paper focuses on how RFID Technology can be used to solve problems faced by public transport in metropolitan cities of the country. Automated tracking of buses can be used to provide useful estimates of arrival times...

Transportation and public health.

This article investigates various ways that transportation policy and planning decisions affect public health and better ways to incorporate public health objectives into transport planning. Conventional planning tends to consider some public health impacts, such as crash risk and pollution emissions measured per vehicle-kilometer, but generally ignores health problems resulting from less activ...

Toward the Design of Rural Intelligent Public Transportation System Rural Public Transportation of Iran

In order to improve the level of intelligence, availability, being on demand, convenience, information and humanization of rural public transportation systems, they are more willing to use modern information and communicative technologies. In addition to management services, intelligent transportation systems can provide passengers, drivers, travel agencies and other institutions with other ser...

Urban Transportation Management Challenges

IN FR A STR U C TU R E The condition of the nation’s infrastructure has been the subject of several major studies in recent years. As could be expected, Canada has similar problems concerning the condition of the infrastructure. Needs studies undertaken from the late 1970s to the present suggest four major conclusions: the nation’s infrastructure has been maintained unevenly; many public facili...

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