This paper studies the impact of service frequency and reliability on the choice of departure time and the travel cost of transit users. When the user has (α,β,γ) scheduling preferences, we show that the optimal head start decreases with service reliability, as expected. It does not...

We examine American support for transit spending, and particularly support for financing transit with local transportation sales taxes. We first show that support for transportation sales tax elections may be a poor proxy for transit support; many voters who support such taxes do not support...

Rail-based ‘Mass Rapid Transit System’ has been widely accepted as a solution for most of the traffic and environmental pollution related problems which major cities throughout the world are facing now. Metro rail construction activities are being undertaken in a big way in India,...

This paper determines the extent to which gasoline price elasticity is affected by the availability of a substitute for driving—public transportation. Measuring the substitutability of public transportation presents an important practical difficulty. To address this, we predict individuals’...

Due to an increasing demand for public transportation and intra-urban mobility, an efficient organization of public transportation has gained significant importance in the last decades. In this paper we present a model formulation for the bus rapid transit route design problem, given a fixed...

We examine the regulatory design of a market for products with interdependent demands, where regulated firms provide (imperfect) substitutes and can engage in lobbying activities. Under centralized regulation, a single regulator is established, whose mandate is to maximize aggregate welfare....

The described process could represent one actual and proper solution for the development of the intelligent assistance in the public transportation management. This model is a global approach in the process for the adoption of an specified solution, using, simultaneously, different types of...

The aim of Health in All Policies (HiAP) is to bring diverse sectors together to find shared solutions; it focuses on identifying 'win-win' or 'cobenefits' such that policy measures contribute not only to improved health outcomes but also to outcomes desired by other sectors, such as education,...

The question of delay management is whether trains should wait for a delayed feeder train or should depart on time. In classical delay management models passengers always take their originally planned route. In this paper, we propose a model where re-routing of passengers is incorporated. To...