On-line journey planners encourage the use of public transport systems by easing the task of finding “optimal” routes between start and destination locations. Most of the tools lack the flexibility of comparing journeys that end at different (but maybe nearby) destinations. In this paper, we propose a novel visualization tool for public transport journey planning that integrates graph layout te...

This work applies the sustainable evaluation to the case of transport and land use planning in urban areas. A set of indicators according the three dimensions of sustainability, environment, economics, and social aspects, are defined to evaluate the mobility in urban areas. The aim of this work is to present a procedure to define a Sustainable Mobility Index in Urban Areas. A set of transports ...

Economic tools and regulatory systems for the urban environment 60 Land use and strategic urban planning 61 Spatial planning on the urban periphery 61 Mixed use planning and urban design policies 61 Transport planning and management 62 Preserving cultural heritage 63 Use of green space in urban areas 63 Urban agriculture and forestry 63 Integrated approaches to urban management 64 Site planning...

Policy towards local bus transport in Britain has been quite sharply cyclical. The late 1960s and 1970s saw the creation of a planned approach to the provision of local bus services, associated with the creation of the National Bus Company in public hands, the development of the Passenger Transport Executives in urban areas with important planning functions, and the growth of public subsidy fro...

Intermodal freight transport has received an increased attention due to problems of road congestion, environmental concerns and traffic safety. A growing recognition of the strategic importance of speed and agility in the supply chain is forcing firms to reconsider traditional logistic services. As a consequence, research interest in intermodal freight transportation problems is growing. This p...

It is expected that freight transport in the European Union will grow significantly and road transport will account for a major part of this growth. By 2020 almost 30% of CO2 emissions in the European Union will be caused by transportation. It is obvious that our present patterns of transport growth are unsustainable. One way toward more sustainable transport is to explicitly take greenhouse ga...

This article is the second of two papers that review the field of spatially sensitive social scientific research into the links between social status and transport disadvantage. The first paper undertook a comprehensive review of the social scientific and transport planning literature to mark the level of development in the field and identify conceptual and methodological issues and constraints...

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...

The tasks planning in the transport domain is a difficult problem which requires the use of analytical techniques and modelling methods resulting from the operational research, the distributed Artificial Intelligence (multiagents systems), the decision analysis, and many other disciplines. Our contribution to this problem consists on one hand of proposing a modelling of the transport system by ...