bus companies. To compare the industry with the long distance rail sector, which is partially subsidised in Italy, we …. According to our estimations, that are not present in the Italian transport statistics, the industry supplied more than 90m bus … on supply and estimated passengers. Today coach and rail are mainly complementary, often filling the qualitative and …

supplied more than 88 million bus-km in 2012, serving about 2.6 billion passenger-km. The existing network, providing a … competing transport modes (rail and air). Our analyses suggest that the most promising relations for possible new services … appear to be those among the Centre and the North-East of the country, with a polarisation on urban areas having limited rail …

support the choice between keeping a bus corridor or upgrading towards a light rail system. The choice is analysed on the …In the last 20 years light rail and tramway schemes have been introduced in many European cities. The effects of these … availability of some experiences helps in deriving some reflections about the circumstances in which light rail schemes can be …

analysis rises from a case study in the southern Italian region of Sicily. Most of the regional bus service is here … historically franchised to some local private bus companies, without tenders or any other form of competition. The structure of the … network has never been planned ex-ante, as it is the result of negotiations among bus companies, local and regional …

-economic terms, and rail transport is not an exception. However, as outlined for example by RailPAG (2005), the measurement of the … rail bottleneck we expect at least two kinds of benefits: direct benefits to transport users and external benefits to the … approach to estimate the effects of a capacity constraints for a simple rail network, and assess its removal through a CBA. In …

for public transport. Though the initial efforts started with three modes - metro rail, Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and … surface rail; currently investments are being made mainly in metro rail and BRT. In spite of lack of patronage, surface rail … research is to assess the viability of surface rail for movement of urban commuters in comparison to metro rail and BRT. To …