Altering the network of public facilities like schools is likely to affect travel choices, in particular route and mode choice. Traveling to school is not only a major contributor to public transport demand in peak periods, but is in many instances also the trip purpose where young people are...

We introduce a new and innovative mathematical approach to designing a counting zones tariff system for public transport service providers that maximizes the total expected revenue (or demand) concerning specific spatial patterns (rings and stripes, for example) of the resulting zones. We assume...