Showing papers in "Transport Policy in 2007"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the results of a qualitative study of public transport users and car users in order to obtain a deeper understanding of travellers' attitudes towards transport and to explore perceptions of public transportation service quality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the range of informal transport experiences worldwide, discuss the costs and benefits of the sector in general and use several case studies to illustrate different policy approaches to regulate them.

TL;DR: Electric bike users are found to travel considerably more than bicycle users, and most electric bike users would travel by bus if electric bikes were unavailable, suggesting that electric bikes are less of a transitional mode between human-powered bikes and full-blown automobile ownership, and more an affordable, higher quality mobility option to public transport.

TL;DR: In this article, respondents living close to a Quality Bus Corridor indicated which of 68 items were "Things I dislike or things that discourage me from using the bus in Edinburgh" and the influence of age, gender, household income, car availability and frequency of bus use on factor scores.

TL;DR: The potential of smart-card data for measuring the variability of urban public transit network use is the focus of this paper and measures of spatial and temporal variability of transit use for various types of card are defined and estimated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the profile of the access and egress modes on journeys to and from railway stations in the Netherlands is analyzed and the effect of passengers' perception of the station and of the journey to the station on the overall perception of traveling by rail is estimated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify customers' desired quality of integrated multimodal travel information provision in public transport and identify the main determinants are time savings (travel and search time) and effort savings (physical, cognitive and affective effort).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on a recently completed study for the UK government on the options available to meet a 60% CO2 reduction target by 2030 in the UK transport sector.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a model of domestic and international tourist numbers and flows to estimate the impact of the recent and proposed changes in the Air Passenger Duty (APD) of the United Kingdom.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that congestion pricing on freeways will have the greatest chance of political success if the revenue is distributed to cities, and particularly to cities through which the freeways pass.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of entry regulation and deregulation on taxicab availability and service quality based on the experiences of 43 cities and counties in the United States and Canada are assessed. But the analysis is limited to two basic markets served by taxicabs: the telephone order (dispatch) market and the cab stand/street hail market.

TL;DR: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) as discussed by the authors is one of the most popular forms of public transport in the world and is growing in popularity in Asia, Europe and South America, in contrast to other forms of mass transit.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of highway investments on economic development is investigated by analyzing lagged and spillover effects, and the contribution of past output levels to the current output using a dynamic model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the proportion of carbon emissions resulting from the Government's projected aviation growth in relation to a contracting carbon budget is calculated, and the authors conclude that the Government must urgently address today's very high levels of growth in emissions within the industry, and ensure future growth can be reconciled with the government's own carbon targets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the theoretical literature on the public procurement versus PPP decision in the context of rail transit and assessed the risks involved in entering these partnerships, and provided a summary of the trade-offs that policy makers make when deciding between alternative strategies.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide accessible and user friendly guidelines for the implementation or development of flexible services identifying key issues that need to be considered at a policy level and provide an analysis of the provision of telematics-based flexible transport schemes showcasing examples from the US and Europe.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a framework tool to prioritize transport infrastructure investments located in more than one country that will form a coherent multinational transport network, comprising of the procedure for prioritisation, as well as the necessary ex-ante evaluation framework.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that high quality, grade-separated transit does reduce urban traffic congestion, and that urban transit improvements can be cost effective investments when all economic impacts are considered.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attributed the historical growth in national Danish road freight traffic and transport is attributed to causes using a Divisia index decomposition method, showing that the observed decoupling of traffic growth from economic growth is mainly the result of use of larger vehicles, increasing average loads, and less empty running.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the concept of multi-instrumentality as a systematic approach for transport policy integration and implementation, and assessed a set of 14 transport policy instruments (weaknesses, strengths and barriers to implementation) and performed a pairwise analysis of potential synergies in their integrated implementation.

TL;DR: In this article, an exploratory study using Q methodology to investigate perceptions of transport's role in people's lives was conducted, which revealed four distinct attitudes towards transport amongst participants, and suggested that Q methodology offers an innovative way of defining discourses which frame participants' views on transport and that such microscale analysis can facilitate the development of more nuanced understandings of transport and social inclusion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the results of a package of measures, contained within a quality bus partnership (QBP), designed to improve bus service quality and information on three city centre routes in Winchester, including the Park and Ride (P&R) service.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple hypothetical network is analyzed using the VISSIM micro-simulation model to study the effects of signal cycle timings on delay and travel time costs for both vehicles and pedestrians in various pedestrian phasing scenarios.

TL;DR: The authors used survey data collected from 1358 commuting workers in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1998 and empirically explored the determinants of individuals' subjective assessments of their mobility (measured on a five-point ordinal scale, for 10 different categories of travel).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on consumers and add some comments on their influence on policy, and point out that human behavior impinges on transportation systems at many points, such as drivers, riders, vehicle buyers, and shippers.

TL;DR: A review of tourism policy documents reveals three key objectives: environmental, social and economic sustainability as discussed by the authors, and examines the role of scheduled buses in meeting these objectives, using data from a large survey of bus passengers in rural tourist destinations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of the congestion charge (CC) on the John Lewis Oxford Street (JLOS) store, which is one of the biggest retail stores within the charged zone, is estimated using descriptive analysis, forecasting methods and econometric models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the performance of the Hokuriku Shinkansen, which links Tokyo and Osaka via a northern route from Tokyo that passes through the Hokura region.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the performance of the new port governance model in Greece through an empirical evaluation of the 12 port entities' financial performance over a time span that corresponds to the sector's reorganisation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the implementation of the Biofuels Directive (2003/30/EC) in 25 member states and identify three main patterns: effective implementation, formal compliance and weak implementation.