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A Framework for Urban Transport Benchmarking
Henning, Theuns; Essakali, Mohammed Dalil; Oh, Jung Eun - 2013
This report summarizes the findings of a study aimed at exploring key elements of a benchmarking framework for urban … transport. Unlike many industries where benchmarking has proven to be successful and straightforward, the multitude of the … actors and interactions involved in urban transport systems may make benchmarking a complex endeavor. It was therefore …
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Demand on public transportation during the economic crisis : the Greek case
Nimorakiotaki, Despoina; Sambracos, Evangelos - In: European research studies 23 (2020) 6, pp. 282-297
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Competition for the market : a policy framework for improving bus operation along EDSA
Llanto, Gilberto M.; Gerochi, Hope A. - 2017
The EDSA bus market is fiercely competitive. In theory, allowing competition among many bus operators is expected to result in cost-effective and reliable transport services, and efficient use of roads. However, in reality, the outcomes are far different: daylong traffic jam and poor bus service...
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Connecting to economic opportunity? : the role of public transport in promoting women's employment in Lima
Martinez, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Salgado, Edgar; … - 2018
Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges to labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban transport systems in women´s employment outcomes, looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and...
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Safety of urban transport users during the Covid-19 pandemic
Betkier, Igor - In: European research studies 23 (2020) 7, pp. 99-115
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Zeitpolitische Aspekte in der Planungspraxis des Stadtverkehrs
Thiemann-Linden, Jörg; Weber, Charlotte - In: Zeitgerechte Stadt: Konzepte und Perspektiven für die …, (pp. 223-249). 2019
In der kommunalpolitischen und planerischen Diskussion zum Stadtverkehr verstecken sich in vielfältigen Themen zugleich …
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Valuation of travel time and travelIer information
Rietveld, Piet - 2003
The value of travel time plays an important role in cost benefit analysis of infrastructureprojects. However, the issue of uncertainty on travel times and the implications this has forestimations of travel time values has received much less attention in the literature. In thispaper we compare...
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Transport infrastructure and the environment : sustainable mobility and urbanism
Cervero, Robert - 2013
The urban transportation sector's environmental, economic, and social footprint is immense and expanding. Many of the world's most vexing and pressing problems - fossil fuel dependency, global warming, poverty, and social exclusion - are inextricably tied to the transportation sector. Much of...
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Valuing convenience in public transport in the Korean context : Prepared for the Roundtable on Valuing convenience in public transport (12-13 September 2013, Paris)
Lee, Sungwon - 2013
Public transport patronage has been continuously declining in major Korean cities as levels of car ownership rise. Public transport has lost its competitive edge to private cars because people tend to prefer more convenient modes as their income increases. A promising way to reverse this trend...
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