The economic, social and environmental benefits generated by the use of urban public transportation infrastructure constitute a complex dynamic urban public transportation infrastructure utilization benefit system. This paper evaluates the coupling coordination among these three benefits taking four Chinese autonomous municipalities as an example. These four cities have large-scale urban public...

BACKGROUND Travel-related barriers to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care, such as commute time and mode of transportation, have been reported in the United States. OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to investigate the association between public transportation use and HIV care attendance among a convenience sample of Atlanta-based, HIV-positive men who have sex with men (MSM), evalu...

Public transportation systems (PTS) are large and complex systems that consist of many modes operated by different agencies to service entire regions. Assessing their performance can therefore be difficult. In this work, we use concepts of Fisher information (FI) to analyse the stability in the performance of PTS in the 372 US urbanized areas (UZA) reported by the National Transit Database. The...

We conduct a cross-sectional ecological analysis to examine environmental correlates of active commuting in 39,660 urban tracts using data from the 2010 Census, 2007-2011 American Community Survey, and other sources. The five-year average (2007-2011) prevalence is 3.05% for walking, 0.63% for biking, and 7.28% for public transportation to work, with higher prevalence for all modes in lower-inco...

one of the main challenges facing urban planning in the late 20th century is the growth rate of traffic that influences access to sustainable urban development. one of the solutions proposed for traffic—as well as the economic, social, and environmental problems originating from it—in large cities has been the applying of traffic restrictions during certain times and in specific places in order...

The existence of a series of problems in transportation management of public and personal vehicles causes to consider intelligent transportation systems. Hence, here we investigate to introduce and the performance of intelligent transportation system ITS which is among new technologies in information technology and at last the importance and necessity of lack of delay in data and informat...

Finding new ways for traveling at a high commercial speed, comfortable, safe, cheap and preserving as much as possible the environment by using less fuel is the new challenge for the public transport operators that run their business in the 21st century. One of the alternatives for the passengers that are using public transportation vehicles is to travel using water buses or ferries. The paper ...

There are many news articles reporting the obstacles confronting poverty-stricken households in access to public transits. These barriers create a great deal of inconveniences for these impoverished families and more importantly, they contribute lot social inequalities. A typical approach addressing issue is build transport infrastructure offer opportunities transits especially those deprived c...

Information is one of the important entities to affect the decision making, therefore effective and efficient management of information in bureaucratic, strategic planning and decision making will affect the governance process. e-Governance is a panacea for all the problems in government or public sector, public transportation is not the exception too. The public transportation sector has to ma...