scholarly journals KEY-COST DRIVERS SELECTION IN LOCAL PUBLIC BUS TRANSPORT SERVICES THROUGH MACHINE LEARNING

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALESSANDRO AVENALI ◽  
GIUSEPPE CATALANO ◽  
TIZIANA D’ALFONSO ◽  
GIORGIO MATTEUCCI ◽  
ANDREA MANNO
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Cost Drivers ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Bus Transport

scholarly journals A Proposal of Measures Towards a Qualitative Enhancement of Bus Transport Services in the Primorsko-goranska County

Pomorstvo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-58
Author(s):  
Siniša Vilke ◽  
Tomislav Krljan ◽  
Borna Debelić
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Passenger Transport ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Passenger Flows ◽  
Bus Transport ◽  
Density Rate

The survey, which consisted of counting, polling and recording, has provided data on the existing volume of passenger flows in public bus stations/terminals within the Primorsko-goranska (Littoral-Mountainous) County (hereinafter: the PG County), the density rate of passengers on bus lines that operate on County connections and on bus lines connecting the PG County with other counties in Croatia. In addition to the quantitative parameters, the qualitative data were analyzed that had been obtained by polling passengers at the Rijeka bus terminal, whereupon detailed opinions of direct users of the service were elaborated with the aim of obtaining a picture of the current situation of the public bus transport in the PG County. The data collected were used in evaluating the quality of the passenger transport service provided and in determining measures to be taken in order to bring both the actual quality of transport and the satisfaction of passengers to a higher level.

scholarly journals Assessment of Passenger Satisfaction with Public Bus Transport Services: A Case Study of Lucknow City (India)

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Singh
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Quality Attributes ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Passenger Satisfaction ◽  
Bus Stops ◽  
The City ◽  
Bus Transport

AbstractThe main aim of this study is threefold. First, it tries to assess the passenger satisfaction with public bus transport services in the city of Lucknow in India. Second, it tries to examine the service quality attributes that influence the passenger satisfaction. Third, it tries to evaluate the relative importance of service quality attributes to find out the priority for service quality improvements to enhance passenger satisfaction. The study is based on a survey of objective as well as subjective questions conducted between May and July 2014. Five major bus stops of Lucknow were selected for the survey. Total 148 respondents were randomly selected to elicit their overall satisfaction and factors that influence their satisfaction in the use of public bus transport services in Lucknow using a self-rated questionnaire. The collected sample of responses is subjected to principal component analysis, a statistical technique for dimensionality reduction of the dataset, and descriptive analysis. The result of theses analyses shows that passengers are mostly dissatisfied with public bus transport services in Lucknow. Using principal component analysis, five underlying factors were extracted that influenced passenger satisfaction with public bus transport services in the city. Out of these five factors, comfort and safety has the greatest impact on overall satisfaction, followed by the adequacy of capacity of public bus transport services, orderly and clean environment inside buses, elegant design of buses and bus stops, and accessibility to public bus transport services in the city. The study thus provides a direction for public bus transport administration in the city to understand the gaps that exist and try to fill them to improve its services so that passenger satisfaction can be enhanced and consequently more people can be attracted towards public bus transport.

scholarly journals Heuristic Optimization Approach to Selecting a Transport Connection in City Public Transport

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jozef Kul’ka ◽  
Martin Mantič ◽  
Melichar Kopas ◽  
Eva Faltinová ◽  
Daniel Kachman
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Heuristic Optimization ◽  
Optimization Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Solution Focused ◽  
Bus Transport

AbstractThe article presents a heuristic optimization approach to select a suitable transport connection in the framework of a city public transport. This methodology was applied on a part of the public transport in Košice, because it is the second largest city in the Slovak Republic and its network of the public transport creates a complex transport system, which consists of three different transport modes, namely from the bus transport, tram transport and trolley-bus transport. This solution focused on examining the individual transport services and their interconnection in relevant interchange points.

scholarly journals Guidelines for the Stable Development of Public Bus Transport in the City of Sofia

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Svetla Tzvetkova
Keyword(s):  
Social Effectiveness ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Ecological Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Harmful Emissions ◽  
The City ◽  
Goals And Objectives ◽  
Stable Development ◽  
Bus Transport

The stable development of public bus transport includes the improvement of the social, economic and ecological aspects of its activity or increasing its social effectiveness through improving the quality of offered transport services, reducing energy consumption, using energy sources more effectively and reducing the harmful effects on the environment. Public bus transport is the most commonly used type of ground transport in the city of Sofia; in recent years, unfortunately, the quality of its services has dropped and its harmful influence on the environment has grown. This is primarily caused by obsolete vehicles and the lack of adequate measures for improving its social and economic effectiveness. The present article substantiates the necessity for its future stable development and outlines the measures for improving the quality of the transport services it offers as well as reducing harmful emissions. In order to support the study’s topicality, it should also be pointed out that similar goals and objectives set in the Declaration for reducing harmful emissions, creating conditions for the use of renewable energy and attracting green investments, which Sofia joined during the World Conference for Climate Change held in Paris in December 2015.

Indore City Bus Transport Service (B)

2010 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
G Raghuram ◽  
Satyam Shivam Sundaram ◽  
Himanshu Patni
Keyword(s):  
Transport System ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Madhya Pradesh ◽  
Maintenance Cost ◽  
Transport Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Bus ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Public Transport Services ◽  
Bus Transport

Towards the end of 90s, mounting losses forced Madhya Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (MPSRTC), the sole provider of public transport in Madhya Pradesh, to suspend their urban services. As a consequence, organized public transport services ceased to exist in Indore, the largest metropolitan city of the state of Madhya Pradesh. This void was filled by Intermediate Public Transport (IPT) consisting of minibuses, tempos and auto rickshaws. As of January 2004, 300 private minibuses, 150 tempos, and 10,000 auto rickshaws were plying as IPT, but with poor service levels. Lack of public transport was a catalyst for rapid increase in personalized vehicles, and high level of pollution and accidents. Worried over the rapid growth of personalized vehicles, and high levels of pollution and accidents in Indore, policy makers and administrators had made several attempts of reviving the public transport system in the city. In 2005, the Collector and District Magistrate of Indore decided to make another attempt of reviving the public transport. The two cases, Indore City Bus Transport Service (A) and Indore City Bus Transport Service (B) discuss the complexity involved in the planning, rolling out, and running of public transport services in Indore on a sustainable basis. Case (A) details the prevalent socio-economic condition, travel characteristics, and positions taken by various stakeholders on provisioning of public transport service in Indore as of November 2005. Case (B) discusses the challenges during the growth and operation of the services as of June 2008. Unprecedented rise in crude oil prices along with (i) increase in maintenance cost of buses, price of new buses, and bank interest and (ii) decrease/marginal increase in the fare box revenue (more people were shifting to passes) and advertisement revenue depleted the margin of the operators. The fares had not been increased since the launch of services in February 2006. It was clear that Indore City Transport Service Limited (ICTSL), the SPV created to run the transport system, would survive only if operators were able to survive. The readers have to take the position of the board of ICTSL and consider various options available to them for running the services on a sustainable basis.

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