background: the objective of this study was to measure the total suspended particulate (tsp), pm 10 and pm 2.5 air particulates in the selected intercity bus stations located in the central square of hamadan, to review the distribution concentration of the air particulates content and to evaluate its possible health risk to the people who spent little time of their daily time in those places. m...

This paper examines the characteristics of intercity bus riders within Tennessee and proposes methods to identify service gaps and prioritize network expansion, particularly focusing on rural-urban connections. Data were collected through an on-board survey and compared with intercity auto trips. Compared to personal auto users, intercity bus riders are more likely to be of minority races, unem...

Abstract: This paper aims to develop a mathematical model to analyze the passenger waiting time in an intermodal station in which intercity transit system served with feeder buses. Passengers are categorized into two groups, named scheduled and random, respectively. The analytic model is developed for quantifying the relationships of passenger waiting time to reliability of feeder bus services ...

Nowadays, the operating scales of the public transport providers can hardly meet the market demand because of the fast expanding volume of intercity passengers, the laggard bus dispatches and proper route management systems. From the societal perspective, this paper, under the framework of a public transit network with bus service providers and users, presents an integrated busses network manag...

this study tries to redesign the interior design of inter-city bus in order to fulfill needs of iranian user. the goal of this study is practically investigate how user centered design can be applied considering cultural needs of iranian user. by defining common needs between cultural and physical aspects of iranian user, the main focus was on improving the sitting condition of the traveler wit...

This paper proposes the solution for improving the services provided by the transport management by using GPS and GSM modem integration. The system mainly consists of three modules. (1) Bus station module (2) Bus module (3) Base station module. The modules are connected to PC and GSM modem. The initial information containing the bus number and license plate from bus station module is sent to bu...