This paper analyses the question of the complementarity between income taxation and non linear pricing of public services in a general equilibrium framework with labour heterogeneity. The public service is viewed as a screening device which is supposed to use non linear pricing. In this framework, we show that even in general equilibrium and with labour heterogeneity, it is useful to supplement...

This paper uses an analytical-simulation model to examine the optimal extent and welfare effects of pricing reforms for passenger transportation in Mexico City. The model incorporates travel by auto, microbus, public bus, and rail, plus externalities from local and global air pollution, traffic congestion, and road accidents. In our benchmark case, the optimal gasoline tax is $2.72 (29.6 pesos)...

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...

INTRODUCTION Attributes of the built environment can influence active transportation, including use of public transportation. However, the relationship between perceptions of the built environment and use of public transportation deserves further attention. The objectives of this study were 1) to assess the relationship between personal characteristics and public transportation use with meeting...

the goal of this paper is to develop a decision support system (dss) as a journey planner in complex and large multimodal urban network called rahyar. rahyar attempts to identify the most desirable itinerary among all feasible alternatives. the desirability of an itinerary is measured by a disutility function, which is defined as a weighted sum of some criteria. the weights represent travelers’...

1. Classification of Transit Systems 2. Bus Transit System 3. Trolleybus System 4. Rail Transit Systems 5. Tramway/Streetcar and Light Rail Transit LRT 6. Rapid Transit or Metro 7. Automated Guided Transit Systems 8. Regional and Commuter Rail 9. Special Technology Transit Systems 10. Transit Line Scheduling 11. Transit Planning and Selection of Transit Modes 12. Present and Future Role of Urba...

Public transportation time schedules are often littered with extraneous data irrelevant to passengers who only seek the next immediate arrival. We explore how the inclusion of visual encodings in time schedules allows users to easily identify and determine the fastest routes to their destinations. We present this solution in the form of a visualization system in which users select their point o...

An increase in the use of GPS modules and cell phones with location services has created a need for new ways of collecting and storing data. Considering a fairly large number of devices, data collected in such way in most cases take up a vast amount of space on servers while on the other hand, they represent a source of very useful information. A large number of companies use this method of dat...

This paper analyzes aggregate personal motor-vehicle travel within a simultaneous model of aggregate vehicle travel, fleet size, fuel efficiency, and congestion formation. We measure the impacts of driving costs on congestion, and two other well-known feedback effects affecting motor-vehicle travel: its responses to aggregate road capacity (“induced demand”) and to driving costs including those...