TRENDS IN URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT

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...

Urban cycles and mobility patterns: Exploring and predicting trends in a bicycle-based public transport system

This paper provides an analysis of human mobility data in an urban area using the amount of available bikes in the stations of the community bicycle program Bicing in Barcelona. Based on data sampled from the operator’s website, it is possible to detect temporal and geographic mobility patterns within the city. These patterns are applied to predict the number of available bikes for any station ...

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

Efficient Tracking of Public Transport in Urban Environment

Good public transport is an important requirement for smooth working of an economy. It not only reduces the traffic on the road leading to free flow of goods and services, it also reduces the oil dependence of the country and improves the environment conditions. The government of various countries is encouraging people to use public transport by infusing more capital for its development and mak...