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Wei Lu, Luca Quadrifoglio, Marco Petrelli
Pág. 4096 - 4109
ADA paratransit services are a very large and ever-growing industry providing door-to-door transportation services for people with disability and elderly customers. Paratransit system, however, just like all other public transportation systems, suffers f...
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Tri Basuki Joewono,Hisashi Kubota
Pág. pp. 1 - 8
Knowledge of the market is a requirement for a successful provision of public transportation. This study aims to explore public perception of paratransit service, as represented by the user and non-user of paratransit. The analysis has been conducted bas...
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Pablo Salazar Ferro, Roger Behrens
Pág. 123 - 136
In the Global South, many ongoing public transport improvement initiatives are based on a complete restructuring of the existing system. More often than not, plans call for an eventual absorption of incumbent operators into a new ?formal? system or for a...
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Tamara Kerzhner
Pág. 671 - 689
Informal transport is often described as flexible, reactive, demand responsive, niche-filling, and in-tune with passenger needs. This paper proposes expanded definitions of flexibility in the operations of informal transport networks and presents a theor...
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Do private transport services complement or compete against public transit? As transit agencies scramble to adjust to the new transport landscape of mobility services, this has become an important question. This study focuses on New York’s commuter...
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Recep Kisla, Kilavuz Tuba, Hatice Sena Yildiz
Pág. 3247 - 3256
This paper focuses on demand responsive transport (DRT) structure and how to apply it in Istanbul. It describes and classifies paratransit modes, also highlights parameters of DRT systems as a type of paratransit mode. It is emphasized that the key of DR...
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David King
Pág. 121 - 122
Over the past few years, private taxi, jitneys, and other paratransit services have blossomed in cities around the world. Scholars have noticed. Two things stand out immediately. First, we don?t know very much about how taxi and paratransit services affe...
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Benjamin Kaufman, Abraham Leung, Matthew Burke
Pág. 499 - 519
Demand responsive transit (DRT) is attracting increased attention as a means to provide public transit to low-density populations. This research aims to provide a suite of evaluation metrics with low data requirement and widespread availability, so that ...
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Franco Jauregui-Fung, Jeffrey Kenworthy, Samar Almaaroufi, Natalia Pulido-Castro, Sara Pereira and Kathrin Golda-Pongratz
Lima, as the capital of Peru, has become its first megacity with more than 10 million people in an area that extends over 80 km in a North-South direction. As a city of this size, it faces complex mobility issues with a strong reliance on informal transp...
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Andreas Neumann, Daniel Röder, Johan W. Joubert
Pág. 137 - 154
After private cars, minibus taxis are the most common transport mode in South Africa. Especially for low-income citizens living in townships, minibus services are often the only possibility for mobility. Despite the great importance of the mode, there is...
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Harsha Devulapalli, Girish Agrawal
Pág. 4196 - 4206
Most public transit agencies in India do a poor job of making even basic route information available to the public. The transit mapping exercise reported here demonstrates that crowd-sourcing can be used to generate useful data at very low cost. Bus rout...
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Saadia Tabassum, Shinji Tanaka, Fumihiko Nakamura, Ariyoshi Ryo
Pág. 3129 - 3146
Accessibility of a mass transit through regular system plays a key role in increasing the ridership of the main system. The access and egress trips to and from the major transit system become crucial in absence of any formal mode available for feeder. Th...
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Pattamaporn Wongwiriya, Fumihiko Nakamura, Shinji Tanaka, Ryo Ariyoshi
Pág. 4942 - 4949
Nowadays the role of paratransit becomes the dominant transport mode in Thailand. Specially, Songtaew operates as a main public transport mode in many medium-sized cities. However, the study on Songtaew service in Thailand have not yet well understood. T...
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