This article is the product of research that analyzed the work of bus drivers of a public transportation company that is considered a benchmark reference in its field of operations, in which it strives to achieve operating excellence. Within this context, the authors sought to understand how such a company has managed to maintain a policy that is capable of reconciling quality public transport ...

Electrification of public utility vehicles plays a vital role in the transition towards more sustainable transport system. However, adoption electric (EVs) encounters varying challenges ranging from financing issues, government policies, and acceptance. Using Philippines as case, this research applies political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental (PESTLE) analysis to determin...

OBJECTIVES Road transport drivers are one of the professional groups whose activities have a strong impact on public safety. In view of the nature of their professional activity, the drivers are at a higher risk of obesity and hypertension, and thus, indirectly, of carbohydrate metabolism disorders such as diabetes mellitus. MATERIALS AND METHODS Medical documentation was a source of data for...

Several studies have focused on understanding travelers’ attitudes and characteristics toward using carpooling services. However, few of these the driver’s behavior services that are organized to feed public transport. This research investigates willingness drivers accept a ride, as part their trip, to/from transport stations (i.e., rail, tram metro). Data from EU project Ride2Rail used, for wh...

Taxi service is an indispensable part of public transport in modern cities. The taxi system is operated by a large number of self-controlled drivers lacking of centralized scheduling and control, which makes it inefficient, difficult to analyze and optimize. It is thus important to take into account taxi drivers’ strategic behavior in order to optimize taxi systems’ efficiency. This paper revie...

The development of mobile IT continuously provides new resources of use in the road environment. However, there are problems turning technical options into meaningful applications. This paper presents a method where observation of daily practices to identify users' demands to inform ITS-design. The particular case is bus driving and public transport management, seen from the bus-drivers’ perspe...

Passenger information aims at improving the user-friendliness of public transport systems while influencing passenger route choices to satisfy transit user’s travel requirements. The integration of transit information from multiple agencies is a major challenge in implementation of multi-modal passenger information systems. The problem of information sharing is further compounded by the multi-l...