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Singapore motorisation restraint and its implications on travel behaviour and urban sustainability 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Piotr S. Olszewski 《Transportation》2007,34(3):319-335
The example of Singapore shows that rapid urban and economic growth does not have to bring traffic congestion and pollution.
Singapore has chosen to restrain car traffic demand due to its limited land supply. Transport policy based on balanced development
of road and transit infrastructure and restraint of traffic has been consistently implemented for the past 30 years. Combined
with land use planning, it resulted in a modern transport system, which is free from major congestion and provides users with
different travel alternatives. As the economic growth caused a substantial increase in demand for cars, several pricing policies
were introduced with the aim of restraining car ownership and usage. Growth of the vehicle population is now controlled and
potentially congested roads are subject to road pricing. These measures help to keep the roads free from major congestion,
maintain car share of work trips below 25% and keep the transport energy usage low. Although Singapore conditions are in many
aspects unique, its travel demand experience can provide useful lessons for other rapidly growing cities in Asia.
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Piotr S. OlszewskiEmail: |
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Galit Cohen-Blankshtain 《Transportation》2008,35(3):411-424
Transportation analysis emphasizes the necessity to internalize the transport externalities of car usage through taxation.
Yet taxation decisions are often made with non-transport goals in mind. In such cases, transport policies are made ‘by the
way.’ This paper examines such a case: Israel’s taxation policy on company cars. It shows that current taxation policies result
in increasing numbers of company cars and growing numbers of transport users who are not sensitive to the marginal cost of
car use and make excessive use of the car. As a result, a significant portion of Travel Demand Management (TDM) measures cannot
affect this group. The Israeli case of company car tax reform demonstrates the problematic effect of a policy that does not
take its overall consequences on other policy fields into account and thereby impairs efforts to reduce the negative impacts
of the transport system. Also, it demonstrates the importance of institutional aspects of transport policymaking.
Cohen-Blankshtain is a lecturer at the department of Geography and School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University. Her research interests include urban policy, transport and ICT policy and participation process in public policy. 相似文献
Galit Cohen-BlankshtainEmail: |
Cohen-Blankshtain is a lecturer at the department of Geography and School of Public Policy at the Hebrew University. Her research interests include urban policy, transport and ICT policy and participation process in public policy. 相似文献
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Catherine Morency 《Transportation》2007,34(2):239-253
Ridesharing is quite a popular topic of discussion among transport authority personnel. It is perceived to be a viable alternative
to classical modes of transportation, and receives a great deal of political support from transport planners. However, not
much objective information is available on ridesharing behaviors. We use travel survey data to study the evolution of the
ridesharing market in an urban area. Our study is based on data from four large-scale OD surveys conducted in the Greater
Montreal Area (1987, 1993, 1998 and 2003).
In the latest survey conducted in Montreal, car passengers were asked to identify the driver who gave them the opportunity
to travel in this way. Their answers were classified according to the type of driver; for instance, a member of their household,
a neighbor or a co-worker. We use this information to calibrate a model matching car passengers and car drivers belonging
to the same household. This will be referred to as IHHR (intra-household ridesharing).
Preliminary results reveal that approximately 70% of all trips made by car passengers are the result of IHHR. Furthermore,
around 15% of those trips are questionable, in that they were exclusively generated for another individual’s purposes, consequently
generating an additional trip for the journey back home. Moreover, this percentage increased over time. Objective data regarding
ridesharing and its evolution in an urban area will undoubtedly help decision makers gain a clearer profile of this means
of travel and help to realign attitudes on the issue.
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Catherine MorencyEmail: |
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Despite widespread growth in on-road public transport priority schemes, road management authorities have few tools to evaluate
the impacts of these schemes on all road users. This paper describes a methodology developed in Melbourne, Australia to assist
the road management authority, VicRoads, evaluate trade-offs in the use of its limited road-space for new bus and tram priority
projects. The approach employs traffic micro-simulation modelling to assess road-space re-allocation impacts, travel behaviour
modelling to assess changes in travel patterns and a social cost benefit framework to evaluate impacts. The evaluation considers
a comprehensive range of impacts including the environmental benefits of improved public transport services. Impacts on public
transport reliability improvements are also considered. Although improved bus and tram reliability is a major rationale for
traffic priority its use in previous evaluations is rare. The paper critiques previous approaches, describes the proposed
method and explores some of the results found in its application. A major finding is that despite a more comprehensive approach
to measuring the benefits of bus and tram priority, road-space reallocation is difficult to economically justify in road networks
where public transport usage is low and car usage high. Strategies involving the balanced deployment of bus and tram priority
measures where the allocation of time and space to PT minimises negative traffic impacts is shown to improve the overall management
of road-space. A discussion of the approach is also provided including suggestions for further methodology development.
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Bill YoungEmail: |
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Mintesnot G. Woldeamanuel Rita Cyganski Angelika Schulz Andreas Justen 《Transportation》2009,36(4):371-387
For economic and environmental policy formulation and with the effort of creating less car dependent societies, it is important
to study the changing characteristics of car ownership in a household through time as well as factors responsible of these
variations. There is a vast body of literature on empirical studies of car ownership and use. These studies have investigated
the socio-economic background of the decision maker, the built environment and the perception associated with owning a car
as determinant factors of car ownership and use. In most cases, these analyses have been carried out using cross-sectional
data sets. However, the analysis of factors determining changes in travel behavior of an individual or household requires
information on their behavior over time (longitudinal data set). In this study, the German Mobility Panel (1996–2006) is used
to examine variation of car ownership through time and across households. The panel data modeling results showed that there
are variations of car ownership between households whereas changes in car ownership of a given household over time (within
household variations) are insignificant. The influence of other factors such as the households’ socio-economic background,
the availability of public transportation and shopping/leisure facilities, perception on parking difficulties and satisfaction
with existing public transportation services on the car owning characteristics of households is also presented and discussed
in this paper.
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Andreas JustenEmail: |
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The impact of urban form on automobile travel: disentangling causation from correlation 总被引:5,自引:3,他引:2
A longstanding question within the field of transportation demand management is the strength of the relationship between urban
form and mobility behavior. Although several studies have identified a strong correlation between these variables, there is
as yet scant evidence to support policy interventions that target land use as a means of influencing travel. To the contrary,
some of the more recent research has cast skepticism on the proposition that the relationship is causative, recognizing the
possibility that households endogenously self-select themselves into communities that support their preferences for particular
transportation modes. Focusing on individual automobile travel, the present study seeks to contribute to this line of inquiry
by estimating econometric models on a panel of travel-diary data collected in Germany between 1996 and 2003. Specifically,
we employ the two-part model (2PM)—a procedure involving probit and OLS estimators—to assess the determinants of the discrete
decision to use the car and the continuous decision of distance traveled. Beyond modeling variables that capture the urban
form features that are commonly suggested to influence mobility behavior, including mixed use and public transit, this study
employs instrumental variables to control for potential endogeneity emerging from the simultaneity of residential and mode
choices. Unlike much of the work to date, our results suggest that urban form has a causative impact on car use, a finding
that is robust to alternative econometric specifications.
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Ralf HedelEmail: |
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In auto-oriented communities, access to an automobile is essential for good mobility, but not everyone owns a car or is able
to drive. Little is known about how individuals in these circumstances might still use vehicles for transportation. To provide
insight on the nature of vehicle use by those with potentially limited vehicle access, we present qualitative findings from
focus groups with recent Mexican immigrants living in California, half of whom owned no cars. Our results demonstrate varying
degrees of participants’ access to vehicle travel not always corresponding to auto ownership, with extensive sharing of cars,
borrowing of cars, and getting rides. We describe the different dimensions of vehicle access that participants experienced
and identify specific factors that seemed to influence their access levels. We discuss the implications of our findings for
transportation policy and future research.
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Susan HandyEmail: |
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Market segmentation studies in travel behavior research are ordinarily based on socioeconomic characteristics and personality
traits. This study explores the usefulness of a different approach, where the actual overall mobility levels across different
ground transportation modes, along with desired changes in the use of cars and transit, are used as clustering variables.
Using a given mode can in fact influence the personal representation of that mode, which in turn has been proven to be a key
element in transport behaviours. We form such multimodality-based clusters from two field studies, one involving employees
of the French transportation research institute INRETS and the other a representative sample of residents of the US San Francisco
Bay Area. We find that strong users of a given mode would like to bring more balance to their “modal consumptions” by decreasing
the use of this mode more than the average, and increasing the use of the alternative mode. However, concerning ground transport
travel budgets, the desire to travel more (or less) overall seems less strongly related to the composition of the modal balance. The US dataset shows also a greater latent demand for
travel than the French one. Socioeconomic characteristics of the clusters could not explain the patterns that were found,
confirming the importance of taking into account multimodality issues in travel behavior research. Some policy implications
from these findings are finally reported.
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Patricia L. MokhtarianEmail: |
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Understanding of the activity-travel patterns of children is becoming increasingly important to various policy makers. Further,
there is also a growing recognition that intra-household interactions need to be explicitly accommodated in travel models
for realistic forecasts and policy evaluation. In the light of these issues, this paper contributes towards an overall understanding
of the school-travel behavior of children and the related interdependencies among the travel patterns of parents and children.
An econometric model is formulated to simultaneously determine the choice of mode and the escorting person for children’s
travel to and from school. The 2000 San Francisco Bay Area Travel Survey (BATS) data are used in the model estimation process.
Empirical results indicate that the characteristics of child like age, gender, and ethnicity, and employment and work flexibility
characteristics of the parents have strong impacts on the mode choice decisions. In addition, the impacts of some of these
attributes on the choice of mode to school are different from the corresponding impacts on the choice of mode from school. The distance between home and school is found to strongly and negatively impact the choice of walking to and from
school, with the impact being stronger for walking to school. Several land-use and built-environment variables were explored,
but were found not to be statistically significant predictors.
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Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Amin T. Kiggundu 《Transportation》2009,36(3):275-294
Most major cities across the world today are facing an intractable challenge of financing public transport. In Kuala Lumpur
for example, public transport services are somewhat poor in part because of the failure of major operators to secure ample
funding. Previous funding programs implemented in the city have failed to produce a replicable model for financing public
transport. Due to numerous financial problems and the dismal performance of privately owned transport firms, the State has
in the recent past emerged as a key source of funding for the public transport sector in Kuala Lumpur. This article argues
that, despite the insuperable challenges, prospects for the future funding of public transport in Kuala Lumpur appears to
be good. The article also draws lessons from both Tokyo and Hong Kong. In order to address the funding deficit facing the
public transport industry in the city it is crucial that more viable strategies and policies such as value capture and public–private
sector partnerships are adopted by the urban authorities.
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Amin T. KiggunduEmail: |
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This study explores the relationships between adoption and consideration of three travel-related strategy bundles (travel
maintaining/increasing, travel reducing, and major location/lifestyle change), linking them to a variety of explanatory variables.
The data for this study are the responses to a fourteen-page survey returned by nearly 1,300 commuting workers living in three
distinct San Francisco Bay area neighborhoods in May 1998. We first identified patterns of adoption and consideration among
the bundles, using pairwise correlation tests. The test results indicate that those who have adopted coping strategies continue
to seek for improvements across the spectrum of generalized cost, but perhaps most often repeating the consideration of a
previously-adopted bundle. Furthermore, we developed a multivariate probit model for individuals’ simultaneous consideration
of the three bundles. It is found that in addition to the previous adoption of the bundles, qualitative and quantitative Mobility-related
variables, Travel Attitudes, Personality, Lifestyle, Travel Liking, and Sociodemographics significantly affect individual
consideration of the strategy bundles. Overall, the results of this study give policy makers and planners insight into understanding
the dynamic nature of individuals’ responses to travel-related strategies, as well as differences between the responses to
congestion that are assumed by policy makers and those that are actually adopted by individuals.
Sangho Choo is a Research Associate at The Korea Transport Institute. His research interests include travel demand modeling, travel survey methods with GPS, and travel behavior modeling. Patricia L. Mokhtarian is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, chair of the interdisciplinary Transportation Technology and Policy MS/PhD program, and Associate Director for Education of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has been modeling travel behavior and attitudes for more than 30 years. 相似文献
Patricia L. Mokhtarian (Corresponding author)Email: |
Sangho Choo is a Research Associate at The Korea Transport Institute. His research interests include travel demand modeling, travel survey methods with GPS, and travel behavior modeling. Patricia L. Mokhtarian is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, chair of the interdisciplinary Transportation Technology and Policy MS/PhD program, and Associate Director for Education of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has been modeling travel behavior and attitudes for more than 30 years. 相似文献
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Modeling residential sorting effects to understand the impact of the built environment on commute mode choice 总被引:5,自引:2,他引:3
Abdul Rawoof Pinjari Ram M. Pendyala Chandra R. Bhat Paul A. Waddell 《Transportation》2007,34(5):557-573
This paper presents an examination of the significance of residential sorting or self selection effects in understanding the
impacts of the built environment on travel choices. Land use and transportation system attributes are often treated as exogenous
variables in models of travel behavior. Such models ignore the potential self selection processes that may be at play wherein
households and individuals choose to locate in areas or built environments that are consistent with their lifestyle and transportation
preferences, attitudes, and values. In this paper, a simultaneous model of residential location choice and commute mode choice
that accounts for both observed and unobserved taste variations that may contribute to residential self selection is estimated
on a survey sample extracted from the 2000 San Francisco Bay Area household travel survey. Model results show that both observed
and unobserved residential self selection effects do exist; however, even after accounting for these effects, it is found
that built environment attributes can indeed significantly impact commute mode choice behavior. The paper concludes with a
discussion of the implications of the model findings for policy planning.
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Paul A. WaddellEmail: |
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When a new public transport service is introduced it would be valuable for public authorities, financing organisations and
transport operators to know how long it will take for people to start to use the service and what factors influence this.
This paper presents results from research analysing the time taken for residents living close to a new guided bus service
to start to use (or adopt) the service. Data was obtained from a sample of residents on whether they used the new service
and the number of weeks after the service was introduced before they first used it. Duration modelling has been used to analyse
how the likelihood of starting to use the new service changes over time (after the introduction of the service) and to examine
what factors influence this. It is found that residents who have not used the new service are increasingly unlikely to use
it as time passes. Those residents gaining greater accessibility benefits from the new service are found to be quicker to
use the service, although the size of this effect is modest compared to that of other between-resident differences. Allowance
for the possibility that there existed a proportion of the sample that would never use the new service was tested using a
split population model (SPD) model. The SPD model indicates that 36% of residents will never use the new service and is informative
in differentiating factors that influence whether Route 20 is used and when it is used.
Kiron Chatterjee has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol, since 2003 and previously was at the University of Southampton. Currently, a main focus of his research is on longitudinal analysis of travel behaviour to improve policy analysis. Kang-Rae Ma received a PhD in Planning from University College London. He worked at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and the Korea Transport Institute before he joined Chung-Ang University as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include modelling of travel behaviour and urban excess commuting. 相似文献
Kang-Rae MaEmail: |
Kiron Chatterjee has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol, since 2003 and previously was at the University of Southampton. Currently, a main focus of his research is on longitudinal analysis of travel behaviour to improve policy analysis. Kang-Rae Ma received a PhD in Planning from University College London. He worked at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and the Korea Transport Institute before he joined Chung-Ang University as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include modelling of travel behaviour and urban excess commuting. 相似文献
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Toshiyuki Yamamoto 《Transportation》2009,36(3):351-366
The interactions among different types of vehicle ownership including car, motorcycle and bicycle are examined by developing
simultaneous vehicle ownership models in this study. Large scale person trip survey data for Osaka metropolitan area, Japan
and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia are used for empirical analysis. The results suggest that population density at residential area
significantly and negatively affects car ownership for both areas, and that the effects are larger for Osaka metropolitan
area than for Kuala Lumpur. Also, bicycle ownership becomes higher at higher population density area for Osaka area, while
higher at lower population density area for Kuala Lumpur, which represents the different usage patterns of bicycle between
the two areas.
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Toshiyuki YamamotoEmail: |
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Annual electric bike (e-bike) sales in China grew from 40,000 in 1998 to 10 million in 2005. This rapid transition from human-powered
bicycles, buses and gasoline-powered scooters to an all-electric vehicle/fuel technology system is special in the evolution
of transportation technology and, thus far, unique to China. We examine how and why e-bikes developed so quickly in China
with particular focus on the key technical, economic, and political factors involved. This case study provides important insights
to policy makers in China and abroad on how timely regulatory policy can change the purchase choice of millions and create
a new mode of transportation. These lessons are especially important to China as it embarks on a large-scale transition to
personal vehicles, but also to other countries seeking more sustainable forms of transportation.
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Christopher CherryEmail: |
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The impact of high-speed technology on railway demand 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
This paper estimates a passenger railway demand function to analyse effects arising from the introduction and use of high-speed
technologies. The paper reports estimates of demand elasticities with respect to price, income, quality of service and a range
of exogenous characteristics. The results show that travel time savings from conventional high-speed technology have a larger
impact on passenger demand than tilting train technology. The introduction of conventional high-speed technology is associated
with an 8% increase in passenger railway demand. Increasing the use of either type of high-speed technology appears to induce
small positive effects on demand beyond those obtained from usual traffic density increases on non-high-speed existing technology.
Antonio Couto is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) at the University of Porto. He received his PhD from FEUP in 2005 having completed a thesis in railway transport economics. His research focuses on issues related to transport economics and infrastructures. Daniel J. Graham is a Reader in the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London. He specialises in the economics of transport, focusing in particular on modelling the implications of transport provision and accessibility for productivity and economic growth. 相似文献
Daniel J. Graham (Corresponding author)Email: |
Antonio Couto is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) at the University of Porto. He received his PhD from FEUP in 2005 having completed a thesis in railway transport economics. His research focuses on issues related to transport economics and infrastructures. Daniel J. Graham is a Reader in the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London. He specialises in the economics of transport, focusing in particular on modelling the implications of transport provision and accessibility for productivity and economic growth. 相似文献
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Konstantinos G. Zografos Konstantinos N. Androutsopoulos Teemu Sihvola 《Transportation》2008,35(6):777-795
Flexible transport services include a wide range of demand responsive transport systems that provide non-conventional passenger
and freight transportation services. Several alternative business models varying according to the local market conditions,
the socio-economic, legal, and institutional framework may be developed for the provision of Flexible Transport Systems (FTS).
The objective of this paper is twofold: first to present an integrated methodological framework for developing and assessing
alternative FTS business models and second to demonstrate its applicability to a case study regarding the prioritization of
alternative FTS business models for the provision of flexible passenger transport services in Helsinki.
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Teemu SihvolaEmail: |
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Estimation of the determinants of bicycle mode share for the journey to work using census data 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
A model is presented that relates the proportion of bicycle journeys to work for English and Welsh electoral wards to relevant
socio-economic, transport and physical variables. A number of previous studies have exploited existing disaggregate data sets.
This study uses UK 2001 census data, is based on a logistic regression model and provides complementary evidence based on
aggregate data for the determinants of cycle choice. It suggests a saturation level for bicycle use of 43%. Smaller proportions
cycle in wards with more females and higher car ownership. The physical condition of the highway, rainfall and temperature
each have an effect on the proportion that cycles to work, but the most significant physical variable is hilliness. The proportion
of bicycle route that is off-road is shown to be significant, although it displays a low elasticity (+0.049) and this contrasts
with more significant changes usually forecast by models constructed from stated preference based data. Forecasting shows
the trend in car ownership has a significant effect on cycle use and offsets the positive effect of the provision of off-road
routes for cycle traffic but only in districts that are moderately hilly or hilly. The provision of infrastructure alone appears
insufficient to engender higher levels of cycling.
John Parkin joined academia after a career in consultancy. He has experience of all stages of the promotion of transport infrastructure, from planning and modelling to design and implementation. His specialises in transport engineering with an emphasis on design innovation, sustainability principles and community benefit. Mark Wardman has been involved in transport research for over 20 years. His main research interests are in behavioural response models in general and stated preference in particular. Areas of application have included public transport, notably rail, with several novel applications to cycling and environmental issues. Matthew Page research interests include transport policy and how it has developed, the environmental impacts of transport, the impacts of transport on climate change, and walking and cycling. 相似文献
Matthew PageEmail: |
John Parkin joined academia after a career in consultancy. He has experience of all stages of the promotion of transport infrastructure, from planning and modelling to design and implementation. His specialises in transport engineering with an emphasis on design innovation, sustainability principles and community benefit. Mark Wardman has been involved in transport research for over 20 years. His main research interests are in behavioural response models in general and stated preference in particular. Areas of application have included public transport, notably rail, with several novel applications to cycling and environmental issues. Matthew Page research interests include transport policy and how it has developed, the environmental impacts of transport, the impacts of transport on climate change, and walking and cycling. 相似文献
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A hybrid model of fuzzy and AHP for handling public assessments on transportation projects 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Turan Arslan 《Transportation》2009,36(1):97-112
Having an effective public participation in transportation planning and project development processes has been a major concern
for developed countries. In the United States, for instance, all state Departments of Transportation are subject to the Transportation
Equity Act (TEA-21) that formally requires public involvement in transportation planning. Since transportation planning involves
public resources and values, judgments by the public should play a key role in determining final decisions. Therefore, all
these agencies are required not only to disseminate information to the public, but also to solicit and consider public opinion
in forming transportation policy. This work presents a decision support model, with public involvement and public oversight,
to help policy makers select appropriate transportation projects for implementation. Since focus groups will face multiple
objectives and inexact information in the process, a hybrid model of fuzzy logic and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) is
proposed. A set of ‘if–then’ rules based on Weber’s psycho-physical law of 1834 is presented to reason from fuzzy numbers
to capture essential subjective preferences, pairwise, among the alternatives. The AHP is then incorporated to estimate preference
allotments among alternatives. An example application of the suggested method is provided seeking public approval of an appropriate
public bus transportation system choosing between one run by municipal authorities and one run by private agencies to show
how this procedure works.
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Turan ArslanEmail: |
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Katrin Dziekan 《Transportation》2008,35(4):519-538
This paper studies the memory representations of residents regarding the public transport system in their city. Telephone
interviews were conducted with a representative sample of 204 inhabitants in a selected residential inner-city area in Stockholm.
Route knowledge questions, recognition tasks, free-recall tasks and estimations of service frequency were used to explore
memory representations. The results showed that, in general, residents in metropolitan areas have good knowledge of the public
transport options along well-known transport corridors. The memory representation of lesser-known transport corridors tends
to be of a poorer quality. In the results presented here, the variables gender, age, employment status, level of education
and car availability had no correlation with the quality of the memory representation, but experience increased knowledge.
Although frequent users of public transport had a more detailed representation of the system, the less frequent users also
had a considerable- and good-memory representation. An explorative hierarchy for representation of public transport lines
in the memory is proposed. It is hypothesised that memory representations of a transport line can be affected by the following
three factors: the extent to which a line is visible in the urban area, the straightness of the routes and whether or not
stops are labelled, for example, by destination area. Simply put, these factors determine how well a person knows a line.
It was found that people first remember a commuter train and a trunk bus line, followed by metro lines and suburban buses
and finally normal inner-city buses with the poorest anchorage in memory.
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Katrin DziekanEmail: |