Public Transport Interchanges ? Experience from the UK
John Austin, Managing Consultant, Austin Analytics, the UK, discusses the importance of public transport interchanges in Public Transport, best practices that need to be followed in their design and the benefits.
Cost-Benefit Analysis for Transport Projects
Public transport projects are often delayed or put on hold for a variety of reasons ? reasons that are often not based on the real problems of the project. Ranjit Gadgil, Programme Director of Pune-based Parisar, takes a look at Cost Benefit Analysis, a tool for evaluating transportation projects.
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) – A new form of Urban Transport
Personal Rapid Transit is a new light urban transport system based on small, automated, electric, driverless vehicles travelling on segregated guide ways. PRT is now becoming an accepted form of public transport to complement other modes in cities across Asia ? providing stand-alone systems and first mile, last mile connectivity. The world?s first operational system, at London Heathrow has proved a major success. The system is in operation in USA, UAE and South Korea as well.
Germany makes its public transportation a success story
By providing many incentives and adopting a few strict regulations, Germany has succeeded in shifting its travelling population towards public transport. Its... Read More
Sydney Ferries: Overcoming challenges of water-based Urban Public Transport
The operation of the iconic Sydney Ferries was privatised last year by the Australian Government. A look at the history, operations, significance... Read More
Walking through Austria
Vienna: A traveller?s delight Vienna is an ideal city to be emulated for multimodal transport, says Bina C Balakrishnan. Here, she writes... Read More
Improving the Efficiency of Bus Transport in India
As safe and improved public transport debate gains momentum, there is a growing need to improve the efficiency of bus transport in India. U Sudhakar Rao, Executive Director, Association of State Road Transport Undertakings addresses the issue.
TrafficInfraTech Expo: Seminar: May 18, 2012
The Day 2 seminar of TrafficInfraTech Expo 2012 was on ‘Challenges in making the operations of State Road Transport Undertakings efficient: Policy, Management & Technologies’. A report.
Promoting Cycling in Cities
Transport planners around the world have now more or less come to the conclusion that in order to address the issues that... Read More
