Public transport

Let me set the scene, I wake up earlier than I should during summer break and get on the train from Queens to Brooklyn. As I walk through the Brooklyn streets I felt the most out of place that I have ever felt. At first, when walking out of the subway station everything seemed like a normal day. I stood outside the Marcy Projects (a cheaper housing choice in NYC), where I found myself looking at familiar faces of Hispanic, African-American people and the occasional Caucasian tourist walking…

run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. Immediately upon entering the massive office, your eyes light up from all the different colors from the screens screaming right at you. There’s a quiet humming in the room: officials talking to transport officials, printers spewing out sets of time intervals and data for the upcoming month. Mass transit systems are often overlooked portion of today’s infrastructure. The Harris County METRO facility and what it’s employees do exemplifies what…

FINANCING SUSTAINABLE URBAN TRANSPORT SYSTEM Introduction This is a comparative study on financing sustainable urban transport systems in cities of Asia and Europe. Financing a sustainable transport system involves huge amount of capital on building new roads, modern railway, air and water transport system. Many countries have to bear the financial burden and hindrance when sourcing capitals to fund a sustainable urban transport such as new roads, light railway transport, bus routes, bus…

Curitiba is well known for its innovative public transport system based on buses that is one of the many initiatives adopted to improve the quality of life in the city. There has been a rapid economic and demographic growth in the last few decades which has transformed the city into an important industrial and commercial center and a center for transporting and processing agricultural goods. It is one of the fastest growing cities of Brazil. Curitiba’s public transport system has developed over…

Introduction Transit oriented development (TOD) is an urban development approach that focus on the effective use of the transit system, that is the public transport system. TOD maximizes the efficiency of the transit systems by developing in high-density, and in a way that integrates different land use into a single location. TOD makes use of high-capacity, highly efficient mass transit systems such as heavy railway, streetcars and buses to achieve an efficient and sustainable urban development.…

Public transport is only option left for Auckland people to reduce carbon emissions, avoid congestions and improve safety and personal security. Steps towards public transport will free up the roads to freight transport for commercial use there by increasing the productivity and competitiveness. Increased public transport usage in Auckland, reduces fuel consumption, lessen dependence on imported fuels and also mitigate the effect of transport on climate change. According…

1. Product Impact 1.1 Background In 2003, the Queensland Government set to developing a smart and electronic way to ticket commuter who use public transport such as trains, buses and ferries. They awarded a contract to Cubic Corporation of $134 million dollars to design this electronic ticketing system. The Queensland Government wanted Cubic Corporation, who is an American corporation providing military equipment and automated ticketing system within America, to build and operate an electronic…

growth would arrive at a common phenomenon of car-oriented transport nature and the common solution is to promote rail transport to mitigate the transport problem while implementing restrictions for vehicle access would help to reduce the usage of private cars. The discouragement of unnecessary private vehicle uses and promoting the use of public transport to minimise traffic congestion and roadside pollution is the objective of Transport Demand Management (TDM) (SUTP, 2011). The push and pull…

Mega Bus have quit a few advantages for a company that recently entered into the market. Mega bus has learnt from past mistakes of other companies that have been operating in the US transport industry. A feasibility study carried out reveled possible sources of these failures. For any business entering a new market, it is easy to avoid doing things that other companies have done to land them into problems. For example, Mega bus has been able to analyze the events that led to companies like…

3.3. The value of congestion in public transport Limited knowledge is available about congestion in public transport and user’s perception of congestion, which are nevertheless among the most important aspects in assessing the QoS and comfort. Insufficient capacity may question the service availability. If for example, at the bus or the subway arrival there are no more seating or standing places, the service is no longer available for users who are present on waiting platforms. The lack of…