Advanced systems in public transport

Advanced Systems for Public Transport

It is our pleasure to introduce this issue from Public Transport with a selected set of the papers that were presented at the 12th Conference of Advanced Systems for Public Transport (CASPT12) held by the Department of Transport Engineering and Logistics of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and its Bus Rapid Transit Centre of Excellence in Santiago, Chile on July 23–27 2012. CASPT ha...

A Novel Method for Measuring the Quality of Temporal Integration in Public Transport Systems

Temporal coordination of services, as a crucial aspect of integration in public transport systems, has always been a big concern for transit planners and schedulers. One of the major issues in the way of coordinating transit services is the lack of a robust measure of effectiveness for assessing the quality of temporal coordination in public transport systems. Even though the network-wide summa...

Line Optimization in Public Transport Systems

Public Transport Ontology for Passenger Information Retrieval

Passenger information aims at improving the user-friendliness of public transport systems while influencing passenger route choices to satisfy transit user’s travel requirements. The integration of transit information from multiple agencies is a major challenge in implementation of multi-modal passenger information systems. The problem of information sharing is further compounded by the multi-l...

the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran the impact of e-readiness on ec success in public sector in iran

acknowledge the importance of e-commerce to their countries and to survival of their businesses and in creating and encouraging an atmosphere for the wide adoption and success of e-commerce in the long term. the investment for implementing e-commerce in the public sector is one of the areas which is focused in government‘s action plan for cross-disciplinary it development and e-readiness in go...