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Towards an enabled journey: barriers encountered by public transport riders with disabilities for the whole journey chain

Transport reviews, 2021
The ability to travel freely and independently to participate in society is essential for an individual’s wellbeing and quality of life. People with disabilities are often unable to access public transport due to barriers in the urban environment and ...
Jun Park, S. Chowdhury
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Exploring the impact of public transport including free and subsidised on the physical, mental and social well-being of older adults: a literature review

Transport reviews, 2021
Physical activity is one of the most important interventions to improve the health and well-being of populations. Gaining sufficient physical activity can often be difficult for older people, who are less likely to be involved in formal exercise.
Delia Rambaldini-Gooding   +6 more
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XII. Transports publics

Droit et gestion des collectivités territoriales, 2006
Siat Guy. XI. Transports publics. In: Droit et gestion des collectivités territoriales. Tome 34, 2014. Éducation, formation, recherche. Quelle place pour les collectivités territoriales ? pp. 557-559.
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Optimal timetables for public transportation [PDF]

open access: possibleTransportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2001
Abstract This paper analyzes the optimal timetable for a given number of public transport vehicles on a single transit line when riders differ with respect to the times at which they prefer to travel and the schedule delay costs they incur from traveling earlier or later than desired.
de Palma, Andre, Lindsey, Robin
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COVID-19 and urban public transport services: emerging challenges and research agenda

Cities & Health, 2020
This article explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for public transport. Three elements are explored. Firstly, the short-term effects, including perceptions of public transport as a vector of virus transmission and shifts towards less ...
A. Gutiérrez, D. Miravet, A. Domènech
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The publicness of public transport: The changing nature of public transport in Latin American cities

Transport Policy, 2016
Public transport can be ‘public’ in multiple ways and without specificity when one public aspect changes there is no way to consider the impacts of that change. Currently there is a process of transit formalization taking place in Latin American cities that is changing the publicness of their systems. This paper identifies four publicness types- public
Paget-Seekins, Laurel, Tironi, Manuel
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The perils of public transport

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2007
Section 33 of The Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 makes it an offence for a person in England and Wales who is suffering from a notifiable disease, e.g. cholera, to use any bus, tram or train; or use a taxi without notifying the driver or owner of the vehicle, or their carer to allow them to do so.
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Public Transport

2020
Public transport may be defined as any form of passenger or freight transport that is available for hire and reward. In practice, it usually refers to land-based passenger transport and in particular bus and train services and variants thereof. It is this narrower definition that is used in this article.
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Public Transport by Satellite

IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 2000
Abstract The city of Almelo has developed, together with two suppliers, a new concept to give green light with priority. This concept, SABIMOS, is based on differential GPS. It combines already existing systems in an unique way and replaces the old VET AG-system.
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Public Transport in the Era of ITS: Forms of Public Transport

2016
This chapter describes the characteristics of public transport systems, seen as a system. With public transport system, we mean mainly the technical system of different modes of transport including vehicles and infrastructure as well as their characteristics, such as capacity in various traffic concepts.
Karl Kottenhoff   +2 more
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