Rail and road public transport: Cooperation or coexistence?

Discrete optimization in public rail transport

Agent-based Planning and Simulation of Combined Rail/Road Transport

A simulation model of the flow of Intermodal Terminal Units (ITUs) among inland intermodal terminals is presented. The intermodal terminals are inter-connected by rail corridors. Each terminal serves a user catchment area via a road network. The terminal is modelled as a set of platforms, which are served by a number of gantry cranes and front lifters. Given the schedule of train connections am...

Coexistence of cooperation and defection in public goods games.

The production of public goods by the contribution of individual volunteers is a social dilemma because an individual that does not volunteer can benefit from the public good produced by the contributions of others. Therefore it is generally believed that public goods can be produced only in the presence of repeated interactions (which allow reciprocation, reputation effects and punishment) or ...

Automatic Passengers Counting In Public Rail Transport Using Wavelets

Previously, we introduced a passengers’ counting algorithm in public rail transport. The main disadvantage of that algorithm is it lacks automatic event detection. In this article, we implement two automatic wavelet-based passengers counting algorithms. The new algorithms employ the spatial-domain Laplacian-of-Gaussian-based wavelet, and the frequency-domain applied Non-Linear Difference of Gau...

Inefficiency of public road transport and internal corporate governance mechanisms

The aim of this paper is to determine the incidence of internal corporate governance on the efficiency of public transport operators. We use a stochastic analysis frontier model of a sample of 54 public road transport firms, during the period of 2000–2011. We also explain the inefficiency of public transport operators by the internal corporate governance. The stochastic frontier approach is use...