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Showing 1 to 20 of 198 for “"public transit"”.
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Evolving Technologies Shaping Public Transit
The transit industry is changing rapidly due to technology, which in turn changes business models, ridership, travel patterns, and the transit workforce. As transit agencies introduce new technology systems, research is needed on how these systems impact demand for paratransit and on-demand …
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Designing Public Transit from the Margins: How rethinking public transit in Boston to support the travel patterns of transit-reliant women could transform public transit for the better
Boston’s public transportation network, the MBTA, is a “hub-and-spokes” system: rail lines radiate out to the suburbs from a few central downtown stations, and traveling between the “spokes” often requires taking multiple buses or traveling all the way inbound to transfer. Particularly on the bus …
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Wildly Inaccessible: Reaching Public Lands via Public Transit
Public transit offers a valuable method to sustainably connect people to highly sought amenities, including outdoor spaces. Outdoor recreation has grown in popularity, with a particular uptick in outdoor activity in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, a growing body of research has …
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Marketing public transit : bus transportation in a small city
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1981.
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The incidence of public transit subsidy: a case study.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1970. M.C.P.
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Race, public transit, and automobility in World War II Detroit
This dissertation examines the decline of public transportation and rise of automobile use in the United States from the perspectives of social and environmental history. Through a case study of Detroit, the dissertation argues that World War II reinforced a culture of driving and set the stage for …
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Essays on the relationship between public transit usage and obesity
… of two essays which analyze the impact of public transit usage on obesity. Chapter 1 introduces the backgrounds of this field and layout the general framework of this thesis work. Chapter 2 conducts a cross sectional study on the impact of county population level public transit usage on …
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Impact of COVID-19 on Public Transit and Micromobility Ridership
… is the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on public transit and micromobility ridership?" The study aimed to determine important factors that potential riders considered and emphasized in their decision making. The research approach was to use a custom-developed stated preference survey. The …
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Examining Public Transit Service Integration Strategies with Innovative Private Mobility Providers
… transportation services. At the same time, transit agencies in the United States have faced significant challenges, including decreasing ridership patterns and the disruptive effects of the pandemic. These trends have pushed public agencies to explore new strategies of service provision, and …
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Public Transit Accessibility and Need Indices: Approaches for Measuring Service Gap
<p>The integration of transit needs into transit accessibility indexing is important for the evaluation of existing transportation systems and, service gaps, and for the identification of priority areas for future investments in transportation infrastructure. This thesis details an …
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Public transit planning with consideration to equity: A Utility Modelling Approach
Public transit plays a key role in human life. An efficient and equitable transportation system enables access to services and amenities that are central to the lives of all individuals, such as employment, education, health services, and leisure. Transit frequency is one of the key attributes of …
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Accessibility impact analysis of new public transit projects in Cairo, Egypt
… Since NUCs are not well connected by official public transport to the inner city, their residents rely on private cars and informal or expensive private mass transit to reach the job markets of inner Cairo. Although in official strategy plans, no direct link is drawn between the difficulty of …
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Leveraging spatial relationships and visualization to improve public transit performance analysis
Public transit agencies collect a tremendous amount of data in order to measure bus performance, including vehicle positions and passenger counts. These data are typically organized in the same way that the network is organized: split up by route, with each route further divided into stop-to-stop …
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Data-driven customer segmentation and personalized information provision in public transit
To ensure customer satisfaction, a transit agency must strive to understand and cater to its users' needs. The goal of this research is to develop a framework that could help the transit agency to better understand its users and their behaviors. Segmentation of the market for transit users is the …
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Exogenous drivers of public transit and ride-hailing ridership: a study of policy intervention, COVID-19, and the relationship between ride-hailing and public transit in Chicago
Public transit is a crucial component of the urban mobility system for many cities, but several recent shocks have threatened its continued function. Additionally, Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) have grown rapidly in recent years, expanding travel choices for some but posing a challenge to …
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The Private Sector in Public Transit: Evaluating Early US Experience in P3s
Problems in US public transit are well documented: transit providers struggle to develop new infrastructure, face high project costs and long implementation timelines, pursue designs that prioritize ease of delivery over value to the public, and struggle to sustain their operations. In response to …
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Enabling Car-Free Living: Shared Micromobility and Public Transit Interactions in Chicago
Shared micromobility/bikeshare services and public transit both offer travel alternatives to the automobile in urban areas. While these services might be viewed as competitors in the urban mobility space, this thesis argues that each benefits from the other as part of a “package of options” …
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Evaluating online surveys for public transit agencies using a prompted recall approach
Public transit agencies have traditionally relied on manually collected customer surveys to understand travel behavior and customer satisfaction. With formerly manually collected data such as ridership and running times now being automatically collected, there exists an opportunity to simplify …
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Detecting Public Transit Service Disruptions Using Social Media Mining and Graph Convolution
… years we have seen an increase in the number of public transit service disruptions due to aging infrastructure, system failures and the regular need for maintenance. With the fleeting growth in the usage of these transit networks there has been an increase in the need for the timely detection of …
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