regarding the fiscal constraints and management difficulties of public hospitals, several countries have usedpublic private partnership model to improve their health facilities. public private partnership enables using public resources and private investment and expertise in a combined structure. moheb hospital is the first iranian hospital managed according to public private-partnership. the p...

In this study, an investigation of long-term forecasts relating to the development of the transport sector in Poland is performed, including the ones by 2030 and 2050. Selected transport development forecasts from the perspective of the membership of Poland in the European Union are presented and most of all, from the perspective of national studies. The basement for the review was the prognosi...

Purpose This paper addresses the urban transit sector investigating variables affecting the habitual modal choices of commuters aiming to gain insight into the key factors affecting these choices and the reasons that discourage them from using public transport services. Methods Probit and structural equation models have been estimated, while additional statistical analysis was performed to gain...

Public transport service provision is viewed as an important component of the overall transportation planning and management process. Research examining public transportation performance and how it may be enhanced is much needed. This paper addresses strategic aspects of service access. Public transport in Brisbane, Australia is evaluated using a commercial geographical information system integ...

A large amount of public transport data is made available by many different providers, which makes rdf a great method for integrating these datasets. Furthermore, this type of data provides a great source of information that combines both geospatial and temporal data. These aspects are currently undertested in rdf data management systems, because of the limited availability of realistic input d...

it has been documented that nearly 25-30% of automobile collisions are potentially associated with driving fatigue. we have little control over sleep propensity when chronically sleep-deprived or suffer from an underlying sleep insufficiency. drowsy driving is not only a personal but also a public hazard and commercial drivers with alternate shifts are critically at risk. people on monotonous d...

The development of mobile IT continuously provides new resources of use in the road environment. However, there are problems turning technical options into meaningful applications. This paper presents a method where observation of daily practices to identify users' demands to inform ITS-design. The particular case is bus driving and public transport management, seen from the bus-drivers’ perspe...

This paper proposes the solution for improving the services provided by the transport management by using GPS and GSM modem integration. The system mainly consists of three modules. (1) Bus station module (2) Bus module (3) Base station module. The modules are connected to PC and GSM modem. The initial information containing the bus number and license plate from bus station module is sent to bu...

Nowadays, usage of motor vehicles is becoming mandatory for almost every people. So, due to the increasing the number of vehicles on roads traffic controlling became crucial one and also major problem for general public as well as government. In this paper, a vehicle monitoring system is proposed by using the embedded system technology, which gives the intelligent management of public transport...