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The demand for public transport: The effects of fares, quality of service, income and car ownership [PDF]

open access: yesTransport Policy, 2006
This paper reports on key findings from a collaborative study whose objective was to produce an up-to-date guidance manual on the factors affecting the demand for public transport for use by public transport operators and planning authorities, and for ...
Association of Train Operating Companies   +18 more
core   +3 more sources

A methodology for measuring the sustainability of car transport systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Measuring the sustainability of car fleets, an important task in developing transport policy, can be accomplished with an appropriate set of indicators. We applied the Process Analysis Method of sustainability assessment to generate an indicator set in a
Akinyemi   +39 more
core   +1 more source

Impact of Car-Sharing and Ridesourcing on Public Transport Use: Attitudes, Preferences, and Future Intentions Regarding Sustainable Urban Mobility in the Post-Soviet City

open access: yesUrban Science, 2022
The impacts of ICT-based mobility services vary in different cities, depending on socioeconomic, urban form, and cultural parameters. The impacts of car-sharing and ridesourcing on public transport have not been investigated appropriately in post-Soviet ...
Rozaliia Tarnovetckaia, Hamid Mostofi
doaj   +1 more source

European NCAP Program Developments to Address Driver Distraction, Drowsiness and Sudden Sickness

open access: yesFrontiers in Neuroergonomics, 2021
Driver distraction and drowsiness remain significant contributors to death and serious injury on our roads and are long standing issues in road safety strategies around the world.
Rikard Fredriksson   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

INVESTIGATION OF DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF GONDOLA CARS ON PERSPECTIVE BOGIES

open access: yesNauka ta progres transportu, 2014
Purpose. In this paper, it is necessary to examine the dynamic properties of the gondola car with bogies, model 18-1711 when it moves on straight and curved sections of a track. Methodology.
S. V. Myamlin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Flying Cars for Green Transportation [PDF]

open access: yesJoule, 2019
Growing urban populations, land space limitations, and high infrastructure development costs present a challenge for the future of ground-based transportation. Flying cars, no longer confined to the realm of fiction, are in active development today and will see commercial deployment throughout the next decade.
openaire   +1 more source

Household car adoption and financial distress in deprived urban communities: A case of forced car ownership? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This paper explores the relationship between car ownership and financial circumstances for people living in disadvantaged urban communities. Assumptions about cars signifying status and income are problematised by an examination of the characteristics of
Clark, Julie, Curl, Angela, Kearns, Ade
core   +3 more sources

Surviving “Car-diac Arrest”

open access: yesCulture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2022
The car dominates the imaginary of urban modernity. Such modernity links the car to living the good life, especially for the growing middle class. However, an environmentalist in my research laments that the unprecedented increase in car volume causes ...
Gina Gatarin
doaj   +1 more source

METHODOLOGY OF A MULTIDIMENSIONAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE NUMBER OF VANS IN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

open access: yesNowoczesne Systemy Zarządzania, 2020
In the article presents the methodology of multidimensional comparative analysis of data on the number of vans in thirty three European countries in 2013-2017. The first stage of research was the grouping of original data.
Bartosz Kozicki   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smart Transportation Based Car Pooling System [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Sharing of car is Carpooling, so that multiple number of people can travel in single car. the use of car pooling reduces single individuals Travelling cost , reduces the fuel cost and reduces the number of cars. Due to the growth in the population there is inadequate transportation through their own car .
Gedam Celesty   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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