Neighborhoods often resist public transit expansion for fears that it will increase crime by attracting transient populations and prospecting criminals. On the other hand, transit may reduce crime by altering economic development and other positive features of neighborhoods. Studies examining public transit and crime have either been cross sectional or examined the impact of public transit expa...

Expanding public transportation is not enough to solve the urban sprawl problem resulted from an auto-orientation perspective. So urban planning experts paid attention to integrated and coordinated planning of urban development with public transportation, which reached to sustainable urban development. The purpose of this study is to review the researches in transit-oriented development (TOD) a...

The effect of public transportation on commuters' sensitivity to gas prices is examined using a proxy for the quality of public transportation. This proxy is measured as the difference in the individual's predicted commute times by private transit and public transit, estimated using the individual's observable characteristics. The interaction of gasoline price with this measure is found to have...

Policy-makers have relied on non-coercive mechanisms to achieve socially optimal outcomes in a variety of contexts when prices fail to ration scarce resources. Amid heightened concern about environmental damage and climate change, public appeals for cooperation and pecuniary incentives are frequently used to achieve resource conservation and other prosocial behavior. Yet the relative effectiven...

This study investigates the potential demand for public transit for commuting trips – a rarely explored perspective for the study of public transit systems. Potential demand for public transit refers to the kind of demand that is not explicitly expressed or realized but will be present if condition permits (i.e. when public transit facility is accessible). In this study, potential demand is sur...

Tour planning represents a challenging task for individuals visiting unfamiliar tourist destinations, mainly due to the availability of numerous attractions (points of interest, POIs) and the complexity of metropolitan public transit networks. Several web and mobile tourist city guides already support personalized tour recommendations. However, they exclusively consider walking tours; namely, t...

Attracting people to public transit in urban areas has proven to be a difficult task indeed. Recent research on the transportation–land use connection has suggested that transit use can be increased through transit-friendly land use planning. While significant evidence exists that a relationship between land use and transit is apparent, the exact nature of the relationship remains ambiguous. De...

With the growing development of smart cities, public transit forecasting has begun to attract significant attention. In this paper, we propose an approach for forecasting passenger boarding choices and public transit passenger flow. Our prediction model is based on mining common user behaviors for semantic trajectories and enriching features using knowledge from geographic and weather data. All...