Abstract
Nowadays, urban population is witnessing a rapid growth and henceforth its mobility. City infrastructures and economic resources may not follow at the same rate as the increasing mobility. So often, projected increase in transport needs goes beyond projected expansion of transit network capacity. This asymmetry between transportation supply and demand is unmistakable: congestion, unpleasant travelling conditions and other phenomena that comes with are already witnessed in the public transit system.
Public transport performance is constrained not only by its availability but also by its capacity. Actually, the capacity of a transit line is defined by the operating frequency as well as the physical capacity of each vehicle. The relationship
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Comfort in public transport, literature review and challenges
This section summarizes the findings of qualitative researches conducted on comfort in transit and the disutility linked to congestion. A benchmark of the state of the art in this subject, so far few studied, has been proved very useful to understand the overall context in which the concept of comfort and the impact of congestion on public transport users are positioned.
3.1. Quality of service
Throughout this study, the term "quality of service" returned systematically. In fact, the quality of service (QoS) in public transport is a concept which definition is very subjective and varies widely, depending on the mode of transport and the involved players.
The definition of the QoS according to the user is different to that to the operator because priorities and interests of each one of these actors are ranked differently.
3.1.1. Defining the Quality of Service
In the field of transportation, stakeholders are many and various, and sometimes with divergent interests (CERTU, 2002). This diversity is related to the fact that transit is perceived as a public service and involves besides users, institutional, public and private representatives. Despite their divergences, all these actors have a common interest: a satisfactory performance of the transport service. Idem for the QoS, to which are assigned different definitions, according to each actor (TCQSM, 2013) all suggesting that transport performance should be sought.
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The TCRP B-11 program (Transit Cooperative Research Program) is developed to assist public transit agencies in order to identify the most important parameters that could affect their system and create potential problems. Three surveys are conducted for urban rail systems, commuter bus and small bus in the city. Interviewed attributes can be grouped into nine categories: comfort, nuisance, schedules, rates, cleanliness, personalized information, passive information, security, and correspondence. The attributes related to scheduling have been the major concern of the users of public transport, followed by the comfort and nuisances (TCRP,
The New York City Subway System, or the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), has become the “life line” of New York City (NYC) since people are reliant on the subway system for commuting to different places within the city. One such person, who buys this fact, is a person by the name of SunDo K, who runs and owns a restaurant business in Cypress, California. He claimed in his profile on Yelp that, “One of the best part about New York City is traveling via the subway.” Now there are also acid twists and turns into this. Precisely there are many others out there whose judgment matches flawlessly the same with K. They find the MTA quite advantageous of there way of going around town, while there are other people, who find the system comparatively exasperating, and disappointing for its following: punctuality, fare, overcrowded, and filthiness. Though few peoples’ psyche has been launder by the term “detestation” for New York City’s subways (Tubes), they are the ones who are going to notice a hole in their pocket as other approach of transportation call for more money in addition to not being safety as well. One such example can be found at NYC’s taxi cab. Periodically few New Yorkers tends to believe that Tubes makes their ride trouble-free, efficient, inexpensive, as well as comfortable experience. Some people also trust the city’s subway as one of safest way of roaming around the city than other transportations. What’s more gossiping is the fact that, both safety and security happens to be Subway’s primarily concern according to the MTA.
Privatizing the public transport is not a good idea but it will help to improve the city transport much better and convenience to the public. The downside of this solution is rider fare will increase frequently, but the city can regulate competition between privatized in order to keep prices down for consumers while the city can save more and also people can get much better transportation
These include encouraging commuters to use public transport, decongesting public transport, decentralizing businesses from the Greater Toronto Area, investing in transport infrastructure, passing relevant transport legislation and dialog with stakeholders in transport industry. These solutions aim at discouraging the use of private vehicles and increasing the effectiveness of public transport to increase the capacity and speeds needed to reduce congestion in Toronto. However, it is important to involve all relevant stakeholders when developing solutions to the transport congestion since as earlier discussed, these people may offer very effective solutions to this problem since they are the major road users. The general public will also be keen to follow changes made to improve the transport sector if it is involved in the change process. This will ensure that Toronto has one of the best transport systems not only in North America but across the
The core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have stronger systems emerging in the Blue and Green Light Rail lines, however the southern suburb located Red BRT line is struggling with ridership. The proposed Orange BRT line to Burnsville will continue to have similar ridership problems if the transit engineers do not balance efficiency and speed to encourage riders to step out of their cars and onto the bus. Finally, without the extension of the Orange BRT line to Lakeville, the community will be restricted to the 467 Express Bus during rush hour, be forced to drive to at least Burnsville to other options, or continue to drive themselves and add to the
Does UK Public transport live up to expectations? Introduction Public transportation has always been a key issue to the government by trying to promote public transport more than using a car. Today public transport is pushed more to help reduce factors of pollution and congestion which seem to be growing all over the UK. Transportation needs vary greatly depending on peoples commuting needs and therefore trying to focus on transport as a whole over the UK is very difficult to research. I have used over 20 documents to help me research this statement.
Transit users’ perceptions are a very important aspect in the study of transit ridership. Perceptions about travel time, distance to bus stops, wait times at stops, etc. are all factors that contribute to people’s willingness to take transit. Transit operators use this information to make improvements to their systems. It is also important to determine perceptions in order to determine future transit ridership, es...
Public transportation has grown as attractive investment opportunity in economic sub sector nowadays (Allison, Lupton and Wallis 2013). Mostly public transportation acquisition has been conducted by the government, responsible for whole transport infrastructure activity as the owner and regulator. Since sustainable transport design were gained for better future, government give a space for private company in collaboration, generate the value based on co-creation (Enquist et al. 2007). These step has a particular effect on developing the cities, surmount mobility issues (Too and Earl 2009) and leads to open service innovation age which increasing customer loyalty and satisfaction (Chesbrough 2011). Therefore such private company assigned progressively took part in public transport service as more demand and expectation of customer that seek peculiar innovation and experience (Enquist et al. 2007).
Capturing subjective perceptions of crowding regularly may prove to be a cumbersome and a costly exercise. Thus, it can be used as a mean to identify the gaps between the objective standards and subjective public perceptions. Further, it can be used to identify the cost of crowding by using the willingness to pay estimate of users for a less congested, more comfortable public transport system. The economic method used to calculate and value crowding is known as contingent valuation method, which has its roots in environmental economics and valuation of non-market goods. It is discussed in detail in the following section.
Transportation system is a dynamic system. Information about traffic must be regularly updated to keep pace with ever-changing transportation system. Data must be collected and analyzed systematically to get representative information.
For formulating a more efficient transport pattern, there are some specific strategies. Firstly, government can encourage people to pay more attention to public transit. The actual data about transit use from most cities indicates that transit use is growing in many cities, in addition, some developed cities have been reducing their car use and pay more attention to the public transport (Newman, 1999). Encouraging urban citizens use more public transit is effective in reducing the quantity of private cars. It is generally known that private cars have brought great pressure on urban traffic. Secondly, government can restrict cars based on the “odd-and-even l...
Most of cities that people live are sequentially growing, daily routine of many people are also adapted for surrounding in the present. A lot of people have to spend most of their time with travelling though long distances to get from one place to another for connecting their businesses or other purposes by transportation. Most people use public transportation such as BTS and MRT to go each places while many people are using their own cars to travel. Thereby, both transportations have the same destination that is taking and moving people. People can choose vehicles from alter reasons depend on how people are responded to their needs by public transportation and private car that are different in convenience of travelling, expenditure of money and security of travel.
Should students take advantage of the public transportation more seriously than owning a car? The public transportation can solves to numerous problems; the bus transportation can be a universal antidote for bigger issues such as global warming. By taking the bus can save students’ time and money, rather than students who have a car have deal with traffic and expensive parking fee. Students who own a car might experience sitting in such a long traffic, where during the traffic cars may produce noxious gases relieving particle of air that can contribute the affect to human health. The public transportation is the best solution for an enormous population of students, so students’ needs to get on the transit a try. The transition system in the
Most people take the urban public transportation system for granted. It is used in every aspect of our daily lives: work, education, medical necessities, recreation, etc. It is also important for the transportation of goods and services, which aids the growth and maintenance of our economy. Urban public transportation is the critical component of our quality of life and economic stability. The MBTA, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, is Boston and Eastern Massachusetts’s major transportation service. The MBTA has played a central role in the development of Boston and surrounding cities and towns for more than a century; providing service from 175 cities and towns into Boston. On an average weekday over 1.2 million trips are made on the subway, buses, commuter lines and other services in the mass transit system. With an international airport, a ship port, the highways, and the rail lines to connect regional cities and towns to national and international destinations and markets, Boston’s urban public transportation system has made the region’s growing role in the global economy possible.
We all use vehicles for transportation. People usually go to their desired destination either by driving their own cars or traveling in public transportation. Actually, it might be tough to choose that which one is the best selection for people to travel. Many people choose one of them according to their comfort while traveling and both of them have advantages and disadvantages in different conditions. Public transportation and driving own car both shares differences and similarities in many aspects, such as facility, cost, and comfort as well as traffic jam and accident occurrence.
Traffic congestion, is one of the major problems faced in the capitals and major cities in most countries. As with the increase in the growth rate, comes the growing demand for the use of transportation. This works with the response to the needs of the community.