Monash University, Institute of Transport Studies: World Transit Research (WTR)
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Transportation mode choice
No full textThis paper presents a dynamic model of transportation mode choice and evolution of public transportation service based on some simple assumptions of individual behavior and economic necessities for providing transportation service. Critical values are shown to exist for the fares charged, for the cost of providing service, for the demand and supply of transportation, and for other parameters at which the system will bifurcate to different possible states of the system; critical thresholds must be reached in the quality of the network to observe its growth. Also shown is the role of history and the role that fluctuations in individual behavior and mode strategy play in the way the system structures, that is, in the evolution of the relative number of users of each mode and in the level of service obtained
KEEPING PACE WITH URBAN TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENTS: AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
No full textThe paper presents a review of the literature that deals with assessing practice and research on traffic and transportation management issues, including studies on area traffic control systems, electronics aids for freeway operation, traffic operation at sites of temporary obstruction, capacity of at-grade junctions, traffic corridor control, bus lanes and busway systems, integrated urban traffic management, energy problems an urban and suburban transport and traffic measurement methods