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Formalising the jeepney industry in the Philippines – a confirmatory thematic analysis of key transitionary issues
Published 2020Jeepneys are paratransit vehicles which constitute the bulk of urban transport in many cities in the Philippines. There are around 179,000 jeepneys of which 90% are fifteen years or older. However, this is not without so ...Open AccessConference paper -
Railway network design and regional labour markets in Sweden
Published 2020Investment in railways, and transport infrastructure in general, are often motivated because they are believed to improve peoples’ accessibility to jobs. By linking together and increasing the size of labour markets, the ...Open AccessConference paper -
Shared Autonomous Vehicles in rural public transportation systems
Published 2020This article focuses on the economic potential and the consequences on the regulatory context of Shared Autonomous Vehicles (SAV) used in a regional public transportation system. Based on an experimental case study two ...Open AccessConference paper -
Penalties as incentives for punctuality and regularity in tendered Swedish public transport
Published 2020This paper studies penalty design for cancellations and delays for bus contracts in two Swedish regions, Stockholm and Skåne. In these regions regional public transport authorities are responsible for the procurement. The ...Open AccessConference paper -
Public Bus Service Contracting: A Critical Review and Future Research Opportunities
Published 2020This paper reviews the studies on public bus service contracting over the past three decades. With a bibliometric approach, the impactful clusters of studies and research focus are identified and visualized separately. Key ...Open AccessConference paper -
Public Transport Tendering and Contracting arrangements in countries under regulatory transition: The case of Cyprus
Published 2020Competitive Tendering is perhaps the preferred approach for procuring Public Transport (PT) passenger services in the EU, according to its legislation. Cyprus has initiated a few years ago the second PT Reform cycle which ...Open AccessConference paper -
Market initiative and central planning: A study of the Moscow bus network
Published 2020The dichotomy of the market initiative and central planning is considered to be one of the main issues in the governance of public transport provision. It relates to the rights of either the operators or authorities to ...Open AccessConference paper -
The role of personal norms in the choice of mode for commuting
Published 2020Research in travel behavioural studies have shown that social forces play a significant role in travel decision making like socio-economic factors. Several studies have tested models with different subjective variables to ...Open AccessConference paper -
Valuing Public Transport Customer Experience Infrastructure – a Review of Methods & Application
Published 2020One of the most significant contemporary trends in public transport systems internationally has been the refocussing of planning and operations on improving the customer experience. This has been matched by the work of ...Open AccessConference paper -
Workshop 5 report: How much regulation should disruptive transport technologies be subject to?
Published 2020In recent years, the advent of disruptive transport technologies has started to transform the transport sector. Governments are therefore challenged to find the right balance in transport governance frameworks that allows ...Open AccessPresentation -
Emerging business models and implications for the transport ecosystem
Published 2020This paper summarises our findings from discussing emerging business models in transportation. Going well beyond big data and regulatory issues, we also examine how new and emerging business models, leveraging on advances ...Open AccessPresentation -
Impacts of replacing a fixed public transport line by a Demand Responsive Transport system: case study of a rural area in Amsterdam
Published 2020The diffusion of the smartphone and the urban sprawl is pushing both private and public actors to revisit the concept of demand-responsive transport (DRT). This paper provides a historical overview of DRT experiences, ...Open AccessConference paper -
Workshop 6 Report. Better Service Delivery through Modal Integration
Published 2020Workshop 6 of Thredbo 16 builds on Workshop 1 of Thredbo 15 which focused on integrating across different transport modes for a better and more seamless user experience. In Thredbo 16, the intention was to develop the ...Open AccessPresentation -
Wider benefits from public transport - Context is everything: Thredbo 16 Workshop 7 report
Published 2020Workshop 7 concluded that the terminology, ‘wider benefits’, tends to reinforce a narrow impact assessment-based approach to transport policy and project evaluation. Participants argued that a preferred approach is to ...Open AccessPresentation -
Distilling Actionable Insights from Big Travel Demand Datasets for City Planning
Published 2020Working towards a more data-informed land use, amenities and infrastructure planning process, the Singapore Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) harnesses big data and spatial analytics to deepen its understanding of urban ...Open AccessConference paper -
Factors of successful implementation and diffusion of services based on autonomous vehicles: users’ acceptance and operators’ profitability
Published 2020The use of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is becoming more and more likely as they offer promising solutions to improve urban mobility. They have the potential to reduce energy consumption and traffic jams. As a result, they ...Open AccessConference paper -
Measuring the Quality of the First/Last Mile Connection to Public Transport
Published 2020The first and last mile of the public transport trip is an important component of the overall quality experienced by a transit user. While individual modes used during the first/last mile (1LM) trip, such as walking and ...Open AccessConference paper -
Competence distribution and policy implementation efficiency towards sustainable urban transport: a comparative study
Published 2020In this research, aiming at understanding relationships between competence distributions for public transport among various stakeholders such as public bodies and operators, and implementation efficiency of policy measures ...Open AccessConference paper -
Economic Assessment of a Dynamic Autonomous Road Transit System for Singapore
Published 2020Autonomous vehicle (AV) has been discussed as a promising solution to substantially improve transit system performance. However, the feasibility of AVs at a system level remains unclear. This paper offers an early glimpse ...Open AccessConference paper -
Resurgence of Demand Responsive Transit services – Insights from BRIDJ trials in Inner West of Sydney, Australia
Published 2020This paper outlines the key insights gained from the Demand Responsive Transit (DRT) operations in Inner West Sydney, since its commencement in July 2018. In the context of Inner West Sydney, DRT plays the role of a feeder ...Open AccessConference paper