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Showing 1 to 20 of 268 for “"public transportation"”.
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Sustainability and Public Transportation Theory and Analysis
… century there is a need to provide sustainable transportation systems in cities to ensure that they remain centres of innovation, quality of life, and economic development. Public transit is often framed as a high potential mode of sustainable urban travel and while much research has been done …
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The taxicab as public transportation in Boston
… the taxicab and its role as a form of public transportation, using Boston's taxicab system as an opportunity to study the mode's function in the city as well as its relationship to other forms of transportation. In many American cities, the taxicab is an important but frequently …
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Customer loyalty in the public transportation context
Public transportation agencies, much like other service industries, have a constant churn of their customer base. New customers are entering and current customers are defecting every day. Traditionally, efforts to increase this customer base have focused on attracting more first-time users. …
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Improving public transportation to Boston Logan International Airport
… on airport roadways, it is critical to improve public transportation to Logan Airport to increase the transit mode share. This study evaluates how public transportation to Logan Airport can be improved with particular consideration of travel demand market segments, the user friendliness of the …
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The application of information technologies to public transportation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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Integrated Model to Plan Advanced Public Transportation Systems
… of this study is to develop an integrated public transportation planning framework to evaluate and plan Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS). With this purpose, a systems approach point of view is adopted to study the influence of new APTS technology in supply and demand transit …
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Strategies for improving jitneys as a public transportation mode
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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Simple models for a single route public transportation system.
Thesis. 1978. M.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.
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Factors Which Influence the Homeless Population's Use of Public Transportation
… at these shelters have limited access to transportation. Half of the homeless did not use the bus even though just thirteen percent of this population owned automobiles. Of those that used the bus, only seventeen percent used reduced fare devices, such as tokens. Public transportation …
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Applying Transportation Forecasting to the Atlanta Area Public Transportation System
… functions to the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transportation Authority (MARTA) system. Volume delay functions are n differentiable functions used to estimate the long-term distribution of user traffic on transportation systems. We will demonstrate the graphical behavior of these functions as …
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Network design for integrated vehicle-sharing and public transportation service
… 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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A microscopic simulation laboratory for advanced public transportation system evaluation
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.
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Integration of public transportation systems : the case of Gipuzkoa, Spain
This thesis studies the integration of public transportation systems, focusing on the development of strategies to implement such goal for networks operated by different service agencies. A literature review on public transportation integration is initially presented, its main conclusion being …
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Intermediate public transportation for developing countries - case study : Bandung, Indonesia
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1982.
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Paying for public transportation : the optimal, the actual, and the possible
Passenger transportation poses challenges to American cities in the form of air pollution, traffic congestion, auto collisions, and barriers to mobility. Public transit has the potential to be part of a solution to these urban problems, yet transit agencies across the country clamor for more …
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A comparative financial analysis of the automobile and public transportation in London
Automobile systems and public transportation are often organized separately within government structure inhibiting a comparative analysis between the two modes. Further complicating the comparison is that in public transportation systems, not only is infrastructure but vehicles and operators are …
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The role of new technology in improving data collection for public transportation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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Data Analytics-backed Vehicular Crowd-sensing for GPS-less Tracking in Public Transportation
… led to the transformation of the conventional transportation services. Achieving the smart transportation goal can be either via dedicated or non-dedicated methods. The former denotes utilization of sensors that are explicitly deployed and configured for pre-defined sensing tasks whereas the …
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Evaluating the costs and benefits of increased funding for public transportation in Chicago
(cont.) off-peak ridership, is at or slightly below break-even with respect to net benefits if the CTA cost structure and tax source of subsidy remains unchanged. In order to justify any significant additional long-term funding for the purpose of growing ridership, the CTA should make operational …
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