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...

C. von Ferber 1 , Yu.Holovatch 2,3,4 , V.Palchykov 4 1 Theoretische Polymerphysik, Universität Freiburg, D–79104 Freiburg, Germany 2 Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 1 Svientsitskii Str., 79011 Lviv, Ukraine 3 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, A–4040 Linz, Austria 4 Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 7...

In this paper we introduce the fare planning problem for public transport which consists in designing a system of fares maximizing revenue. We propose a new simple general model for this problem. It is based on a demand function and constraints for the different fares. The constraints define the structure of the fare system, e.g., distance dependent fares or zone fares. We discuss a simple exam...

Over the past two decades, Germany has improved the quality of its public transport services and attracted more passengers while increasing productivity, reducing costs, and cutting subsidies. Public transport systems reduced their costs through organizational restructuring and outsourcing to newly founded subsidiaries; cutting employee benefits and freezing salaries; increasing work hours, usi...

Here it is presented an application that plans out travel on public transports and that chooses the best ones, according to preference criteria provided by the user. These criteria are: the time spent on the travel, the price of the tickets and the quality of the transports. The application combines different means of transport. Algorithms and heuristics were developed to draw up transport plan...

There is a wide array of public transportation in Singapore. Travelling from one part of Singapore to another is a breeze thanks to a highly penetrative public transport system. The three main modes of public transport in Singapore are the Mass Rapid Transit (MRT), buses and taxis. Buses are, by far, the most common form of public transportation in Singapore, followed by the MRT and taxis respe...