Introduction: Transport system is the major necessity in urban areas, which should provide access to residential, commercial, institutional, recreational, public and semi public spaces that are spread over the city. Public transport system is one which should be able to satisfy the mobility of poor and vulnerable groups which is one as mentioned in millennium development goals. The frequently mentioned problems about transport system are traffic congestion and accidents and coming to health issues it is pollution and green house gas emissions. “Bus rapid transit gives communities the best bang for their buck when it comes to investing in transit. This new system will better connect workers to jobs, shoppers to stores and Oregon to the …show more content…
Hence not only the size of city, the other parameters included while deciding the type of technology ( transit system ) used also depends upon density, population, location of CBD and its area, existing transport links, per capita income, ridership share etc.
Walking distance and Para – transit available plays the major role while developing a transit system of rail or bus.
Finance Viability: India is having high levels of vehicle ownership of about 60-80 percent of motor vehicle fleets in Indian cities, which is creating a difficulty to attract people to public transport, unless the latter is made very convenient and inexpensive. Use of two – wheelers gives freedom and privacy, easily park and can also negotiate traffic snarls better than car drivers and can get to the front of the line at traffic signal points. As the marginal cost of running a two – wheeler is about Rs. 0.50 – 0.70, public transport fares in Indian cities cannot be higher than about Rs. 050 per km according to 2005 prices. Any system which has operating costs above this amount will have to arrange for
Public transportation has grown as attractive investment opportunity in economic sub sector nowadays (Allison, Lupton and Wallis 2013). Mostly public transportation acquisition has been conducted by the government, responsible for whole transport infrastructure activity as the owner and regulator. Since sustainable transport design were gained for better future, government give a space for private company in collaboration, generate the value based on co-creation (Enquist et al. 2007). These step has a particular effect on developing the cities, surmount mobility issues (Too and Earl 2009) and leads to open service innovation age which increasing customer loyalty and satisfaction (Chesbrough 2011). Therefore such private company assigned progressively took part in public transport service as more demand and expectation of customer that seek peculiar innovation and experience (Enquist et al. 2007).
To begin, mass transit used to rule the city life, nobody could get around without using some form of public transportation. Now, there are many
Public transportation in cities was created to make it easy and cheap for people to get from point A to point B without the use of a car of their own. However, in many U.S. cities, the public transportation that is active is failing to do its job for many of the people who need it the most. Public transportation is not necessarily unavailable in a sense that it is not there, but unavailable because of poor maintenance and lack of funding. This is negatively impacting underserved communities within these cities. To narrow down the grand scale of public transportation issues, I have taken a closer look at the public transportation problems that we
Public transportation is an essential part of a city. A good public transit can encourage a city’s economic activities and can provide its citizen a convenient life. Does our Phoenix public transit work well? Does it provide sufficient service to the citizen? From my experience, the answer is no. This November I tried to attend the popular State Fair in Phoenix. However, I found that there were not any buses or metros could take me to the fair directly. It means I need 2 hours or more spend on the public transits. As the sixth most populous city nationwide (“Phoenix Quick Fact” 1), compared with Los Angeles and other big cities in America, Phoenix’s public transportation is indeed subpar. Due to Los Angeles has 154 bus lines and 30 metros (“Schedule”), New York has 316 bus lines and 28 subways(“Maps & Timetables”), while Phoenix only has 98 bus lines, and the number of metro line is only one! (“Route Schedules & Maps”) The problem is
The field of invention is BRTS. BRTS stands for Bus Rapid Transit System. It is a mass transit system. BRT system generally has specialized design and infrastructure to improve system quality and remove the typical causes of bus delay. This project is handled by Ahmedabad municipal corporation (AMC) and operated by Ahmedabad Janmarg limited. It has been successfully working since 2009 and being extended day by day in order to cover major area of city. Detailed system design and support is being provided by CEPT University. Though it is working successfully, it lags some technologies related to route management and these are the tasks which we are going to design.
As it has been pointed out, rapid transit has many of benefits and it has been around for a long time now. I would classify it as the best way of transportation until now, particularly because of the fact that it is the fastest way to transport in a city. Also, if you are living with a minimum wage, it becomes the best option for you because it is low-priced. In my opinion, every city in the world should start using this kind of system because it has been proved that it would benefit a lot
This means that most ‘areas of interest’ (e.g. home, school and shops) are within walking distance of the station . For example in Hong Kong, the majority of MTR stations have a shopping mall, health care centre, and police station within five to ten minutes walking distance . If there are multiple TODs around the city, commuters can travel to and from TODs around the city via public transport with relative ease without having to change the mode of transport. This makes public transport more attractive since it could be even faster than using private automobiles, because railways can travel quickly without congestion as well as saving time to find a parking
When we consider the expensiveness, we think that public transportation is better than driving your own car. The price of public transportation ticket has been always economical, it costs round about 40 Afghani for pick and drop from one destination to another. Unlike personal transportation, people not only pay for different kind of expenses, such as gas, parking, and insurance, but also pay for surprising accident too, such as fixing the unexpected damage occurred in the car during an
For formulating a more efficient transport pattern, there are some specific strategies. Firstly, government can encourage people to pay more attention to public transit. The actual data about transit use from most cities indicates that transit use is growing in many cities, in addition, some developed cities have been reducing their car use and pay more attention to the public transport (Newman, 1999). Encouraging urban citizens use more public transit is effective in reducing the quantity of private cars. It is generally known that private cars have brought great pressure on urban traffic. Secondly, government can restrict cars based on the “odd-and-even l...
Public transportation comprises all transport facilities in which commuters do not use their personal mean...
This ensures the transport system offers viable transport options and modes, which allows society to derive welfare from the equal access to opportunities, goods, services, employment, housing and recreation (Martin and Rice, 2014). Greater consideration of accessibility in spatial planning is required to target the spatial distribution and quantity of opportunities (Pyrialakou et al., 2016). This will reduce temporal constraints of transportation linkages for people, as well as, enabling an understanding of the individual demographic characteristics that impede people’s access (Pyrialakou et al., 2016). In addition, the social equity dimension of transport systems exhibits a need to minimise transport-related social exclusion, through improving access for those currently facing the greatest transport-induced inequalities (Pyrialakou et al., 2016). A sustainable transport system must identify individuals, communities and regions with distorted transport-supplies to ensure a more equitable distribution of transport infrastructure, which can meet the accessibility needs of these
Traffic congestion and accident due to increase in vehicle results in commutation difficulties from one place to another in urban area. For a single person to travel most of them use a four seat or
Rail transportation is a transportation in which for movement of people and goods which from one location to another destination. Rail had been takes the important role in physical and economic development of town and cities in a country and it was developed over the world. Rail transport can be made a property value in a country increase and it must be needs improvement in transportation network expanding (Goldberg, 1970). Thus, the railway services need to be done with continuous improvement and it is important to the rail passengers of the range and quality of facilities and service on stations and trains (Gleave, S. D., 2000). The future development to a public transportation is a key to affect
Never the less these problems have arisen and present a very serious issue for not only our generation but for future generations also. Therefore, changes need to be made in Urban transport.
First of the difference between public transportation and private car is convenience in travel. There are many type of transportations that people can choose to travelling such as bus and van. People can save time to go work in morning and to back when they finished working. Even though, people have to go to work in a crowded bus, people can avoid and also less traffic jams from using their own car on the road. If they go to work or somewhere by private car, they will get serious when they get stick in their car for a long time. People do not have to find parking when they go out to work or shopping. Moreover, public transportation saves environment because it helps people decrease air pollution from using private car.