Real-Time Ridesharing Texas Experiments with Toll Roads and Carpools
Recent trends in multi-modal planning seek to make our passenger transportation systems more efficient. What role might smartphones have in how people get where they’re […]
Category: Public Transport
Urban Bus Specifications
With BRTS and the Government’s emphasis on detrailing in specifications for buses, the perception for bus based transport system has changed in India The National […]
BEST A decade of reforms and improvements
The authors take a look at the developments and reforms in BEST – Mumbai’s public bus transport service during the last decade. Brihan Mumbai Electricity […]
Frequent Bus System
Bangalore, like most cities in India, utilises the Direct Services model for bus transport. In this model, every locality in the city is provided with […]
Smart mobility with personalized modes of transport in urban areas
Automated or “self-driving” personal transport systems are no longer the preserve of science fiction. They are now up and running at several locations around the […]
Risk Management:Elevated Metros
The importance of risk management in today?s complex elevated Metro projects, where cost overruns in design and construction are common place, cannot be emphasized more. […]
Traffic Transit Management Centres in Bangalore
Transport Civil Infrastructure can be an additional source of income for sustainability writes Dr K.N.Ingalagi, Chief Systems Manager, Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation. Sustainability is the […]
Is Airport Express metro line in Delhi effective?
Ashok Datar of Mumbai Environmental Social Network & Mumbai Transport Forum writes about his experience of travelling by Delhi airport metro line and advocates the […]
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.