Urban Public Transportation: Planning and Service Operation Issues

摘要

The 9 papers in the report deal with the following areas: foreword; estimating the potential cost savings of transit service contracting; urban transit profitability by route and time of day; on-time performance and the exponential probability distribution; assaults on bus staff in Great Britain; development of a bus operating cost allocation model compatible with UMIA urban transportation planning system models; short turning on transit routes; effects of fare and other factors on express bus ridership in a medium-sized urban area; overseas applications of microcomputers on a transportation planning and engineering design project; extensions of stochastic multipath trip assignment to transit networks.