should be more applicable to real-world situations. The proposed model is applied to a real case study of Taipei city bus … companies to demonstrate its usefulness. The resulting analysis and the managerial applications for improving the bus service …

rail passengers value different seating experiences. On the back of exploratory research, and including attitudinal … evidence, this paper provides significant and original insights into rail passengers’ preferences in this area. The primary … observe where rail passengers prefer to sit. …

arising from rail investments. This paper conducts a meta-analysis on empirical estimates from 23 studies (102 observations …) that analysed the impact of rail on land/property value changes. Variation in the estimated impacts is calculated and … significant variations in the estimates. These include the type of land use, the type of rail service, the rail system life cycle …

This study explores determinants of customer choice behaviour in passenger rail competition on two cross-border routes …, Cologne–Brussels and Cologne–Amsterdam. It fills a gap in the literature on competition in commercial passenger rail by … customer cards. Our results imply that entry into the commercial passenger rail market may be more difficult than often thought …

of literature has emerged on the issue of rail marginal infrastructure wear and tear costs, but the majority of the work … uncertainty over the effects of rail traffic on renewal costs. In the Swedish context, we find that the inclusion of marginal …

This paper re-considers the problem of choosing the number of bus stops along urban routes, first by estimating the … probability of stopping in low demand markets, and second by analysing the interplay between bus stop size, bus running speed … of bus stops is presented. Using empirical data from Sydney, Australia, we show that the widely used Poisson model …

The Regional Municipality of York, north of the City of Toronto, introduced a new bus service known as VIVA in 2005 …

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has become popular as a means to provide non-automobile-based mobility and alleviate the …

increasing reality of constrained government budgets, the debate on whether we should focus on rail or bus-based investments … by a labelling of each alternative to reveal whether the option is bus rapid transit (BRT) or light rail (LRT) and to … favour of one mode, especially rail, which carries much sway at the political level as if there is no budget constraint. This …