Abstract Using data from the 545 largest European cities, we study whether expansion of their highway capacity provides a solution to problem traffic congestion. Our results confirm that in long run, and line with ‘fundamental law congestion’, cities lane kilometres causes an increase vehicle does not solve urban We disentangle due increases coverage capacity. further introduce road pricing pub...

There are many news articles reporting the obstacles confronting poverty-stricken households in access to public transits. These barriers create a great deal of inconveniences for these impoverished families and more importantly, they contribute lot social inequalities. A typical approach addressing issue is build transport infrastructure offer opportunities transits especially those deprived c...

Information is one of the important entities to affect the decision making, therefore effective and efficient management of information in bureaucratic, strategic planning and decision making will affect the governance process. e-Governance is a panacea for all the problems in government or public sector, public transportation is not the exception too. The public transportation sector has to ma...

Pricing is one of the best tools to improve the efficiency of highly congested transportation networks. It has been shown that an optimal toll pattern can be determined by applying the welfare-economics principle of marginal pricing. Because implementing the marginal pricing solution to the toll optimization problem requires charging each arc of the network any real valued toll, which is not re...

1.0 Introduction Transportation agencies across the U.S. are challenged in their efforts to engage the public in the problems of prioritizing regional transportation improvement projects--such as highway expansions or new light rail lines--and determining how to fund such improvements. These decisions are typically shaped by a variety of local, state, and federal laws as well as the competing t...