An effective fare policy and structure will realize a reasonable combination of both public welfare and operational profit. This article presents an evaluation framework for an integrated fare initiative in Beijing. It explores a new set of 10 evaluation indices, which include public acceptance, social equity, convenience, change of subsidy, possibility of modal integration, feasibility of impl...

This study investigates the potential demand for public transit for commuting trips – a rarely explored perspective for the study of public transit systems. Potential demand for public transit refers to the kind of demand that is not explicitly expressed or realized but will be present if condition permits (i.e. when public transit facility is accessible). In this study, potential demand is sur...

Visioning is becoming a significant way to engage communities in developing transit systems that better satisfy their wants and needs. Visioning involves a range of groups participating in a process that determines the goals and forms of transit systems and developments. Visualization is one of the most widely-used and important methods in visioning. However, while it has many strengths, visual...

This paper investigates the impacts of Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system on household car ownership and analyses how socioeconomic characteristics affect household car ownership. We employ a difference-in-difference (DID) strategy integrated with generalized Poisson regression models to examine the effects of MRT. The results are as follows: first, the establishment of Taipei MRT significa...

Route suggestions for public transportation has been integrated to different mapping services such as Google Maps or Bing Maps. However, those suggestions are often found to be unreliable for the end-users, mainly because of two reasons. Firstly, these route-finding techniques do not consider traffic conditions on the roads. Secondly, routes are generalized for every user, completely ignoring t...

OpenTripPlanner was identified as the most promising open source multimodal trip planning software. OpenStreetMap, which provides mapping data to OpenTripPlanner, is one of the most well-known open source international repository of geographic data. General Transit Feed Specification, which provides transportation data to OpenTripPlanner, has been the standard for describing transit systems and...

Fast growing economies are paralleled with extensive sprawl and an increasing trend in auto-mobilization. Hence there is a direct effect on the travel demand on transport systems. Cities are confronted by challenges to achieve sustainable alternatives to the benign effects of the private motorcar. The move from an auto-oriented city towards a lesser car reliant city is of dire need. The ways in...

P ublic transportation and fixed route transit systems in particular play an important role in the movement of residents within an urban area. In the Halifax-Dartmouth (Nova Scotia, Canada) area (population 252,000), public transit is operated on a regional basis by the Metropolitan Transit Commission (MTC) under the direction of its board of directors and the Metropolitan Authority. Establishe...