Free-fare public transport policies potentially increase walking to stops, but may replace other active travel modes with unknown effects on total travel. We compared behaviour of children living in a Finnish city free-fare reference city. Children were recruited from primary school grades 4–6 21 participating schools, located 11 neighborhood pairs Mikkeli (free-fare bus) and Kouvola (no bus). ...

This paper overviews existing digital communication buses which are commonly used in sensor networks, discusses sensor network architectures, and introduces a new sensor bus for low power microsystem applications. The new intra-module multi-element microsystem (IM) bus is nine-line interface with 8b serial data which implements several advanced features such as power management and plug-n-play ...

Inadequacy and inefficiency of public bus transport as a mode transfer at railway stations has led passengers to switch other modes reach their destinations. This increased traffic congestion on urban roads heavy economic cost society.The main objective this study is identify the factors influencing improvement transferability Bambalapitiya Railway station. considered sixteen attributes quality...

Bus systems involve complex bus-bus and bus-passengers interactions. We study the problem of assigning buses to bus stops minimise average waiting time passengers, W. An analytical theory for two specific cases interactions is formulated: normal situation where all board passengers from every stop, versus novel express disjoint subsets non-interacting serve stops. Our formulation allows exact c...

This research is motivated by a real-life school bus routing problem (SBRP). In the Flemish region (Belgium), transport of children to their school is organized by the Flemish transportation company. Each pupil having the right to be transported to its school, also has the right to a bus stop located at a distance less than 750 metres from its residence. To efficiently design the routes, a set ...

Abstract A significant part of the movement population in large cities is carried out by bus transport. Higher accessibility and connection to network other types public transport are main features The need for mass passenger transportation Baku mainly met metro small number stations insufficient coverage city territory have significantly increased load on service. With increase traffic, freque...

Bctusbdu ̋In this paper we want to minimize passengers waiting times at the bus stops by making buses wait at a stop. We compare a simple rule based approach to a MonteCarlo method for this problem. When allocated enough time, the Monte-Carlo method gives better results. If the passengers arrivals and the bus travel times are known, the best algorithm is nested Monte-Carlo search with memorizati...

Background: Vaccination against COVID-19 is as a key solution to interrupt its spread. This study aimed to describe the vaccination coverage required to stop the spread of COVID-19 in Sri Lanka using a mathematical modeling strategy. Materials & Methods: This longitudinal study used age-stratified and unstratified Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) models. Data on the population's age dist...

The maximal rates that buses can discharge from bus stops are examined. Models were developed to estimate these capacities for curbside stops that are isolated from the effects of traffic signals. The estimates account for key features of the stops, including their target service levels assigned to them by a transit agency. Among other things, the models predict that adding bus berths to a stop...

AbsfractWe report for the first time a bidirectional optical backplane bus for a high performance system containing nine multi-chip module (MCM) boards, operating at 632.8 and 1300 nm. The backplane bus reported here employs arrays of multiplexed polymer-based waveguide holograms in conjunction with a waveguiding plate, within which 16 substrate guided waves for 72 (8 x 9) cascaded fanouts, are...