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Transit Stops and Stations: Transit Managers’ Perspectives on Evaluating Performance Transit Stops and Stations: Transit Managers’ Perspectives on Evaluating Performance

Passengers, transit managers, adjacent businesses and residents, and local governments all can have strong, and sometimes conflicting, ideas about what makes a good transit stop or station. This paper examines stops and stations from the transit agency’s perspective; transit managers must consider both the logistical and political factors inherent to transit operations as well as the perspectiv...

Evaluating Transit

This paper presents a model that calculates the social welfare benefits of using additional subsidy to reduce fare levels or improve service levels of public transit in Chicago. The model differentiates between the effects in peak and off-peak periods for both bus and rapid rail service. The potential welfare benefits of transit improvements accrue to several different groups of people: (1) exi...

Comparison of Light Rail Transit With Bus Semirapid Transit

Selection of transit modes is one of the most important decisions in the transit planning process. A particularly important decision is the selection between bus and rail modes, because it influences the type of service that will be offered and, more importantly, the role transit will play in the city. Ultimately, such a decision has an impact on the quality of life in the city. It is therefore...

Measurement of colonic transit time with Transit-PelletsmethodTM

About 20% of the population suffer from constipation. For the common types of functional constipation, idiopathic and IBS related constipation, the proportion of women is about 80-90%. It is important to structure the management of this large patient group. The duration of symptoms is of relevance. In general, a long history allows for more restricted investigations, and the management can be f...