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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Public transportation service"”.
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Network design for integrated vehicle-sharing and public transportation service
Vehicle sharing services have become a major urban transportation mode. One-way vehicle sharing service facilitates access to public transportation systems, thereby addressing the first and last mile challenges and creating an integrated vehicle-sharing and public transportation network providing …
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Rural mobility in Appalachia: contemporary public transportation planning and the complicated legacy of regional highway networks
Rural transportation systems provide vital options to residents of remote, sparsely populated, and shrinking areas. Though not a classic setting for studying public transit, Appalachia is an exciting case for many reasons. For fulfilling everyday travel needs in most of the United States, personal …
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Examination of Taxi Travel Patterns in Arlington County
… also presents alternative uses for the data in transportation planning. Taxi travel characteristics are explored for Arlington, Virginia, a county containing both urban and suburban qualities. Previous research contends that manifest data can provide valuable quantitative descriptors of taxi …
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Getting on the Bus: Marketing San Luis Obispo's Regional Transit Authority
… the benefits of and encourage the use of public transportation. In the past, public transit agencies have not directed much energy or focus at marketing, seeking to use limited funds elsewhere. “The common perception is that money spent on marketing would be better spent on transit systems …
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Large-scale analytics and optimization in urban transportation : improving public transit and its integration with vehicle-sharing services
Public transportation is undeniably an effective way to move a large number of people in a city. Its ineffectiveness, such as long travel times, poor coverage, and lack of direct services, however, makes it unappealing to many commuters. In this thesis, we address some of the shortcomings and …
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An investigation of the (in)flexibility of the minibus-taxi operating license system: the case of Stellenbosch
… Municipality's efforts to modernize the town's public transportation network by simplifying and integrating all ranking facilities is investigated, but the effort is complicated by an operational licensing system that assigns permits to precisely specified routes. As a result of the …
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El transporte público de pasajeros en Colombia: ¿Es un ámbito del Derecho de la Competencia, del derecho administrativo, de la libre competencia? O, por el contrario: ¿es un servicio público, sometido a las leyes del mercado libre, arbitrario y autosuficiente?
El transporte público individual, y colectivo, de pasajeros, se ha transformado dentro del derecho. Ha pasado de ser un servicio público de regulación y garantía por parte del derecho administrativo, a ser considerado, posteriormente, como un derecho fundamental, considerado a la fecha como un …