Welfare maximization for bus transit systems with timed transfers and financial constraints

2015 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linxi Chen ◽  
Paul Schonfeld ◽  
Elise Miller-Hooks
Keyword(s):  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Bus Transit ◽  
Welfare Maximization

Subsidies and welfare maximization tradeoffs in bus transit systems

2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 643-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Zhou ◽  
Hong Sok Kim ◽  
Paul Schonfeld ◽  
Eungcheol Kim
Keyword(s):  
Transit Systems ◽  
Bus Transit ◽  
Welfare Maximization

Assessing Transit Changes in Columbus, Ohio, and Sacramento, California

2005 ◽  
Vol 1930 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Schumann
Keyword(s):  
Federal Funding ◽  
Light Rail ◽  
Rail Transit ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Bus Transit ◽  
The Past ◽  
Voter Approval ◽  
Capital Funding ◽  
Bus Service

This paper compares the changes experienced by transit systems in two state capitals of similar size: Columbus, Ohio, and Sacramento, California. Over the past two decades, Sacramento added a light rail transit (LRT) starter line and experienced significant ridership growth on its multimodal rail and bus system, while Columbus remained all-bus and experienced a decline in patronage. Reasons underlying the divergent performances of these two systems are analyzed and discussed. It is concluded that, in Sacramento, willing political leadership took good advantage of a one-time opportunity for federal funding to build an LRT starter line; that adding LRT made transit more visible and effective and encouraged voter approval of additional local operating and capital funding; and that all of this resulted in a synergy that attracted more riders to the total LRT and bus transit system and led to extension of the rail system to a third corridor in 2003. Although planning for LRT was begun in Columbus during these same years, a serious interruption in the flow of local funds hampered transit development, required cuts in bus service, and prevented development of that region's planned LRT line. Columbus currently has an LRT project in preliminary engineering, and recent reports suggest a consensus to proceed may be emerging.

Commuting Exposures to Particulate Air Pollution in Three Canadian Bus Transit Systems: The Urban Transportation Exposure Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith Van Ryswyk ◽  
Ryan Kulka ◽  
Greg Evans ◽  
Sun Liu ◽  
Kelly Sabaliauskas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Urban Transportation ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Exposure Study ◽  
Bus Transit ◽  
Particulate Air Pollution

The Dynamics of Transit Innovation in Los Angeles

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
S Adler
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Urban Transit ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bus Transit ◽  
The Us ◽  
Rail Rapid Transit

The recent reemergence of the private sector in urban transit, as well as private-sector-like behavior in the public sector, are manifestations of profound political and fiscal crises that are reshaping the service and institutional structure of the US transit industry, These crises developed as coalitions of competing place-based activists sought to deploy transit investments as strategic weapons to gain location advantages, The history and politics of transit in the intensely competitive Los Angeles metropolitan area illuminate these dynamics, especially the continuing conflict between downtown Los Angeles and outlying business centers on the issues of rail rapid transit and the role of the regional bus transit agency. Privatization and institutional fragmentation, facilitated in Los Angeles by passage of a transit sales tax in 1980, are the strategies of choice for outlying business centers, just as region-wide agencies and radial rail rapid transit systems have been downtown initiatives.

A Real-Time Passenger Flow Estimation and Prediction Method for Urban Bus Transit Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 3168-3178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Zhang ◽  
Dayong Shen ◽  
Lai Tu ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Chengzhong Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Prediction Method ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Flow Estimation ◽  
Bus Transit ◽  
Estimation And Prediction ◽  
Passenger Flow ◽  
Urban Bus

scholarly journals Optimization of grid bus transit systems with elastic demand

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven I-Jy Chien ◽  
Lazar N. Spasovic
Keyword(s):  
Elastic Demand ◽  
Transit Systems ◽  
Bus Transit
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