Urban Public Transport Services in Selected Czech Towns

Public transport in towns: Inevitably on the decline?

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...

Data Structures to Represent Public Transport Systems for Small Towns

Commuter bus systems plays a crucial role in the working of a city, especially for the non-metropolitan towns, where it is the primary mode of transport. For efficient planning, management and utilization of a citys transport system, a well-organized and structured database is necessary. While different cities follow different conventions to store and manage data, it is not clear if this repres...

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