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A New Approach to Accessibility – Perceived accessibility versus objectively measured accessibility in daily travel
Published 2017-01-01Accessibility has conventionally been measured and evaluated ignoring the user-perspective in favor for focus on travel time and distance to a number of pre-determined destinations. Acknowledging this gap, we recently ...Open AccessConference paper -
Outcomes from bus contracts with strong incentives in Stockholm
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Outcomes from new contracts with “strong” incentives for increasing patronage in bus transport in Stockholm
Published 2017-01-01The Swedish Public Transport Association (SPTA) has taken initiatives to develop contract recommendations on incentives for increased patronage in tendered contracts. There is, however, currently a small evidence-base for ...Open AccessConference paper -
Partnerships in the Australian Bus Operating Environment
Published 2017-01-01Industry and government partnering to achieve mutual outcomes is not a new phenomenon, even if it is a relatively underappreciated concept. A focus by governments on value for money underpinned by the tendering of bus ...Open AccessConference paper -
Prospects in Britain in the light of the Bus Services Act 2017
Published 2017-01-01The Bus Services Act 2017 gained Royal Assent on 27 April, shortly before Parliament was dissolved prior to the general election of 8 June. It provides a range of powers, mostly permissive rather than mandatory. The general ...Conference paper -
Public Transport Accessibility Needs Assessment Using Gaming Simulations
Published 2017-01-01Accessibility is a complex measure, defined as the ability to perform activities that are necessary or desired by the users of the system. While being difficult to quantify, it is currently recognised as an important measure ...Open AccessConference paper -
Public Transport Authorities’ Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Practice
Published 2017-01-01Given the Swedish national goals for transport and infrastructure, economic efficiency is essential also in public transport operations. In 2003, Ljungberg (2007) sought to answer to which extent PTAs use Cost-Benefit ...Open AccessConference paper -
Public Transport – An Essential Service
Published 2017-01-01This paper titled, “Public Transport – An Essential Service”, asks the questions: (a) Is the contracting out of bus services by Government a truly competitive process? (b) Do the processes provide real competition, which ...Open AccessConference paper -
Regulatory Structures and their Impact on the Sustainability Performance of Public Transport in World Cities
Published 2017-01-01This paper describes a new measure of the sustainability performance of public transport in 88 world cities adopting 15 indicators including Environmental, Social, Economic and System Effectiveness sustainability. ...Open AccessConference paper -
The Role of Bus Partnerships
Published 2017-01-01Great Britain (outside London) is unusual among Western European economies in leaving the planning of its bus networks to the private sector, albeit working from a long-established historic basis. It took several years ...Open AccessConference paper -
Social exclusion: the roles of mobility and bridging social capital in regional Australia
Published 2017-01-01Mobility is a fundamental requirement for well-functioning regions and for the wellbeing of their residents (and visitors). The paper first examines the role of mobility in promoting social inclusion of regional residents. ...Open AccessConference paper -
Stakeholder Value Network: modelling key relationships for advancing towards high quality bus transit systems
Published 2017-01-01Most urban transport projects are complex as they involve different areas of knowledge and have to accommodate conflicting interests of many stakeholders. Despite existing good practices in public transportation, many ...Conference paper -
A Terminology of Interorganisational Coordination in Public Transport: The Case of Timetable Planning in Denmark.
Published 2017-01-01State, regional and municipal authorities, public transport authorities and traffic operators at many different levels are essential players in public transport. Inter-organisational coordination between those players are ...Conference paper -
Thredbo at Thirty: Review of Past Papers and Reflections
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The Thredbo story: a journey of competition and ownership in land passenger transport
Published 2017-01-01This is a companion paper to Bray, Hensher, and Wong (2017), reviewing developments in public transport institutional reform, contract design and implementation over the past 30 years since the inception of the International ...Open AccessConference paper -
Three modes transformed from monopoly to various forms of competition
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Transit network expansion and accessibility implications A case study of Gwangju metropolitan area, South Korea
Published 2017-01-01Densely populated metropolitan areas require a well-functioning transit system to serve the travel demands in the area. Because of this, transit networks have evolved with the growth of the metropolis and this has entailed ...Open AccessConference paper -
Transit network expansion and accessibility implications: a case study of Gwangju metropolitan area, South Korea
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Understanding the trip and user characteristics of the combined bicycle and transit mode
Published 2017-01-01Several cities around the world are facing mobility related problems such as traffic congestion and air pollution. Although limited individually, the combination of bicycle and transit offers speed and accessibility; by ...Open AccessConference paper