3.2 Transport supply

2012 ◽  
pp. 224-239
Keyword(s):  
Transport Supply

Keeping Passenger Surveys Up to Date: A Fuzzy Approach

2000 ◽  
Vol 1735 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Friedrich ◽  
Peter Mott ◽  
Klaus Noekel
Keyword(s):  
Travel Demand ◽  
Fuzzy Approach ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Traffic Volumes ◽  
Survey Costs ◽  
Essential Prerequisite ◽  
Transport Supply

The knowledge of travel demand is an essential prerequisite for analyzing and planning transport supply. Obtaining travel-demand data for a transit system requires passenger surveys that combine counts and interviews. Passenger surveys have two unpleasant characteristics: they are expensive, and the results of such studies tend to lose their validity fairly rapidly. For these reasons, the development of techniques that reduce survey costs and keep demand matrices up to date is gaining increasing interest. Details of a technique for computer-aided processing of passenger surveys are given, and a method for continuous updating of demand matrices is presented. Because traffic surveys represent only a snapshot situation, the proposed updating method employs a fuzzy approach to consider that traffic volumes vary within a certain bandwidth.

Spatial gaps in urban public transport supply and demand from the perspective of sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 195 ◽  
pp. 1237-1248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Chen ◽  
Ahmed Bouferguene ◽  
Hong Xian Li ◽  
Hexu Liu ◽  
Yinghua Shen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Urban Public Transport ◽  
Transport Supply

Regulating Supply Chains to Protect Road Transport Workers: An Early Assessment of the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Johnstone ◽  
Igor Nossar ◽  
Michael Rawling
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Road Transport ◽  
Early Assessment ◽  
Independent Contractor ◽  
First Order ◽  
The Road ◽  
Transport Industry ◽  
Transport Supply

The Road Safety Remuneration Act 2012 (Cth) (the Act) explicitly enables the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal to make orders that can impose binding requirements on all the participants in the road transport supply chain, including consignors and consignees at the apex of the chain, for the pay and safety of both employee and independent contractor drivers. The tribunal is also specifically empowered to make enforceable orders to reduce or remove remuneration related incentives and pressures that contribute to unsafe work practices in the road transport industry. Recently the tribunal handed down its first order. The article considers whether, and the degree to which, the tribunal has been willing to exercise its explicit power to impose enforceable obligations on consignors and consignees – such as large supermarket chains – at the apex of road transport supply chains. It examines the substance and extent of the obligations imposed by the tribunal, including whether the tribunal has exercised the full range of powers vested in it by the Act. We contend that the tribunal's first order primarily imposes obligations on direct work providers and drivers without making large, powerful consignors and consignees substantively responsible for driver pay and safety. We argue that the tribunal's first order could have more comprehensively fulfilled the objectives of the Act by more directly addressing the root causes of low pay and poor safety in the road transport industry.

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