This research elucidates the trip pattern of the low-density residential zone in a semi-urban industrial cluster of southwestern Nigeria. These sets of dwellers are often times neglected in the transportation planning process with the view that it is not a residential zone. Domiciliary information gathering procedure was employed in the analysis with 0.82 return rates. It was backed up with the...

Vehicle exhaust is a major source of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) in metropolitan cities. Popular community mode (buses and taxies) and about 2.4 million private cars are the main emission sources of air pollution in Tehran. A case survey has conducted to measure CO2 in four popular vehicles, bus, taxi, private car and motorcycle, which moved in the city with respectively 7800, 82358, 560...

Although the demand for taxis is increasing rapidly with the soaring population in big cities, the number of taxis grows relatively slowly during these years. In this context, private transportation such as Uber is emerging as a flexible business model, supplementary to the regular form of taxis. At present, much work mainly focuses on the reduction or minimization of taxi cruising miles. Howev...

In this work, we investigate the potential benefits of introducing relay stations in the round-trip ridesharing problem. In the classical round-trip ridesharing system, the pick-up and drop-off locations for the rider don’t differ from his origin and destination, respectively, for both outgoing and return trips. This system is straightforward but inflexible and unbalanced as it puts the whole d...

Car ownership and use in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) are very high due to income, low fuel prices near absence public transportation Kingdom. Currently, is going through a massive transformation entering new era national reforms. One main aims reforms reduce car dependency enhance more sustainable options travel such as KSA. In order achieve an aim, there two hurdles: Firstly, must be pro...

An increased dependency on motorized modes of transportation has been noticed recently for school children commuting to school, while a major decline in walking occurred. Dependency many adverse consequences. This paper examines determinants that can influence how commute schools both boys and girls all stages Najran City. Data morning commutes were analyzed using multinomial logit model (MLM)....