Public transport

Arizona’s public transportation problem The State Fair in phoenix is very popular, however, I did not join it this year because I could not find a bus or metro which could take me to the fair directly. I did have other choices: spent at least 40 dollars to take a round trip or spent 3 hours on the metro and one hour to walk to get there then back home. Neither of them would be a good decision. As the sixth most populous city nationwide (“Phoenix Quick Fact” 1), compared with New York and other…

Make taking public transit seamless: There are many types of new policies that TTC has come up with for the best customer satisfaction: • The introduction of Customer Service Agents is a milestone in the ongoing transformation of customer service at the TTC. For their…

Nowadays it is difficult to live in big cities without using the transport. It is well-known fact that in metropolises the transportation system is developed well. In almost every big city there are a buses, metro, taxes and great number of personal cars. The fast enlargement of citizens leads to increasing number of cars. Thus, statistic, provided The World Bank, says that the number of motor vehicles per 1000 people in 2011 in the USA was 786, whereas the year earlier it was 782. In…

everywhere. Other people love to drive themselves to work. Some people cannot afford the gas to drive themselves to work or to the store. Because public transportation allows people to get to their jobs, allows older people the chance to get to stores that they need to get to, and helps gets students to school, public transportation should be free. Public transportation should be free for older people because most old people cannot afford to pay for the ride. According to Catharine Paddock,…

all over the world have encouraged the public to choose public transportation rather than private vehicles to travel. In different modes of public transport, cycling increases in popularity in many cities, which brings healthy and environmental advantages(Goodman and Cheshire, 2014). Particularly for short distances in city, bicycle is regarded as an alternative transport to automobile and it may make an important contribution to the environment and public health(Faghih-Imani and Eluru, 2014).…

Bureau, 2013). According to Rosenbloom, many older adults in the United States prefer to drive instead of using public transportation system. According Rosenbloom only eight percent of older adults over the age of 65 uses the transportation system in comparison to sixty percent of older adults in the same age group that drives (2009). Some of the challenges that seniors face when using public transportation is safety concerns. For instance, older adults complain of not having even sidewalks…

The main purpose of transportation system in a country is to provide the efficient and safe movement of goods and passenger from one location to another. The economic development is strongly affected or influenced by the availability of transportation. The increasing number of vehicles on the road has created a major problem through traffic accidents due to the loss of lives and material. Moreover, in developing countries such as India traffic accidents rates are still quite high. Therefore, the…

Driving is an activity that is common. Some areas have heavier congestion than others. Externalities are associated with various areas in the economy including congested roads. The answer to this question will focus on externalities associated with additional individual's driving on a congested road. This question will also give some ideas on how tolls may help alleviate this externality, where tolls are not helpful, and how they may be set. Externalities in the field of economics are either…

My core assumption is that the actual effects and net results of these DFW Metroplex developments around transit centers can be better explained as the result(s) of residential income level differentiation (limited resources and restricted residential options) and the subsequent choices that thereby result can often be misinterpreted as planned or proposed positive effects from TODs. 1. Mockingbird Station TOD Located at 5465 East Mockingbird Lane, Mockingbird Station…

There is nothing as important as the train station, and the places I’ve gone because of it when it comes to overcoming stuttering. I swung my backpack over my left shoulder and went up to the glass window. My voice clenched up, but I approached the counter anyway. “Can I have round trip tickets to ththth...thirtieth street station?” The station clerk nodded before I finished and handed me tickets to center-city Philadelphia. I left the ticket office and motioned to a station clerk. “Which…