Ownership in Land Transport Optimal Pricing and Financing of Public Transport under Competition

Designing public transport to foster patronage and social inclusion 1 9 CONFERENCE ON COMPETITION AND OWNERSHIP IN LAND TRANSPORT DESIGNING PUBLIC TRANSPORT TO FOSTER PATRONAGE AND SOCIAL INCLUSION

Developing an urban congestion pricing model by considering sustainability improvement and using a multi-objective optimization approach

This paper introduces a Travel Demand Management (TDM) model in order to decrease the transportation externalities by affecting on passengers’travel choices. Thus, a bi-objective bi-modal optimization model for road pricing is developed aiming to enhance environmental and social sustainability by considering to minimize the air pollution and maximize the social welfare as its objectives. This m...

Evaluating the Willingness to Pay for Urban Congestion Priced Zones (Case Study of Tehran)

Congestion pricing is one of the major travel demand management policies to reduce traffic volumes in metropolitans. One of the main factors for effective implementation of this policy is to analyze users' response to different toll rates. In this paper, the willingness of users to pay for using their personal cars is evaluated. The stated preference method was applied for data gathering. Sever...

Rail urban projects: a way for improving public transport patronage 1 9 CONFERENCE ON COMPETITION AND OWNERSHIP IN LAND TRANSPORT RAIL URBAN PROJECTS: A WAY FOR IMPROVING PUBLIC TRANSPORT PATRONAGE

Motorised mobility has increased in a significant way in last years in European cities, and this has brought too much congestion in urban areas, which has deteriorated city centres’ liveable conditions. For that reason, there is a need of effective and flexible transport systems in order to improve this situation in favour of public transport. The investment on design and innovation of competit...

Investigating the Effects of Optimal Use of Public Transport to Reduce Traffic and Air Pollution in Tabriz

The rapid growth of metropolitan areas around the world, coupled with the increase in population in these cities, has created numerous problems such as traffic congestion and disruption to the inter-city transportation system. Therefore, this dilemma has been one of the major challenges facing urban planning in the late twentieth century which has influenced the achievement of sustainable urban...