A SIMPLE WAY TO IMPROVE Public Transport usage
[box type=”shadow” ] Mobility demand in Auckland has been growing at a fast rate; traffic volumes are increasing significantly and peak periods are becoming longer. […]
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Fuel Efficiency Training & Management
The adoption of eco-driver training, in conjunction with smart monitoring technologies and a proper incentives system, can be a potent combination of actions to address […]
Intelligent Communication Technology (ICT) for improving Public Transport Integration
The bus transport reform in Seoul came together at many levels including the establishment of a new institutional and regulatory framework, the restructuring of operation […]
Public Transport Interchanges ? Experience from the UK
John Austin, Managing Consultant, Austin Analytics, the UK, discusses the importance of public transport interchanges in Public Transport, best practices that need to be followed in their design and the benefits.
Cost-Benefit Analysis for Transport Projects
Public transport projects are often delayed or put on hold for a variety of reasons ? reasons that are often not based on the real problems of the project. Ranjit Gadgil, Programme Director of Pune-based Parisar, takes a look at Cost Benefit Analysis, a tool for evaluating transportation projects.
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) – A new form of Urban Transport
Personal Rapid Transit is a new light urban transport system based on small, automated, electric, driverless vehicles travelling on segregated guide ways. PRT is now becoming an accepted form of public transport to complement other modes in cities across Asia ? providing stand-alone systems and first mile, last mile connectivity. The world?s first operational system, at London Heathrow has proved a major success. The system is in operation in USA, UAE and South Korea as well.
TrafficInfraTech Expo: Seminar: May 18, 2012
The Day 2 seminar of TrafficInfraTech Expo 2012 was on ‘Challenges in making the operations of State Road Transport Undertakings efficient: Policy, Management & Technologies’. A report.
Promoting Cycling in Cities
Transport planners around the world have now more or less come to the conclusion that in order to address the issues that plague cities – […]
Thiruvananthapuram Gets Monorail Corridor
Monorail, mooted for Kerala’s capital city, is expected to reduce dependence on personalised modes of transport and to take 40% of the present vehicular traffic off the road
Public Transport Projects How to build the infrastructure facilities
Safety of construction crew and general public is important at the work sites of public transport projects. Since these are often mega projects, detailed planning […]