...PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION INDUSTRY OVERVIEW: • PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CONSISTS OF A VARIETY OF SERVICES INCLUDING: BUSES, TROLLEYS AND LIGHT RAIL, COMMUTER TRAINS, STREETCARS, CABLE CARS, VAN POOL SERVICES, PARATRANSIT SERVICES FOR SENIOR CITIZENS AND PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, FERRIES AND WATER TAXIES, AND MONORAILS AND TRAMWAYS. • There are more than 6,500 providers of public and community transportation offering Americans the opportunity and the choice to travel by means other than a car. • Approximately 1,500 agencies provide bus service, 5,960 provide paratransit services, 80 provide rail service, and 150 provide other modes of public transportation. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION INCREASING RIDERSHIP: • THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SHOWED ITS SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AS 76% OF ALL BALLOT INITIATIVES FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PASSES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY IN NOVEMBER 2008, EVEN AS THE ECONOMY SLOWED. • In 2007, Americans took 10.3 billion trips on public transportation – the highest ridership level in 50 years. • 34 million times each weekday, people board public transportation. Since 1995 public transportation ridership is up 32 percent. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PROVIDES ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: • EVERY $1 INVESTED IN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS GENERATES APPROXIMATELY $6 IN LOCAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY. • Every $10 million in capital investment in public transportation yields $30 million in increased business sales. • Every $10 million...
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...FUTURE FOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT BECAUSE TRAVELLING BY CAR IS MUCH MORE CONVINENT . These days, more and more people are using their own cars to commute. The increasing number of vehicles in our cities contributes to the high levels of pollution in the air . When faced with taking private cars or public transport , people react in different ways. In this essay I will discuss the arguments for and against using private cars or public transport . People prefer private cars to public transport for several reasons. Firstly, they think that private cars are faster than public transport since you don’t have to spend your precious time waiting for a bus . A bus-shelter crammed with people. Secondly, you can go direct from work to home without stopping time and time again to pick people up. Finally, there are people who don’t like to share their space with unknown persons , and they don’t like standing up during their journey - take buses as an example, in rush hours, it is very difficult to find a spare seat and eventually you end up grasping a hand bar and trying to keep your balance so at not to not be flung around when the bus brakes. On the other hand , there are other people who prefer public transport to private...
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...Public Transport vs. Private Transport Nowadays people from all over the world are suffering from the air pollution. One of the reasons of such situation is the constantly increasing car usage. Are we able to do something in order to encourage people not to use private cars or to use them less? To be honest, there are only several things we can do. Among them is propaganda of the risks caused by the private cars usage. We can provide people with the main benefits they can get by using public transport and make the transportation prices more affordable. First of all, advertisement is a very powerful “weapon”. Many people can remember the ad they saw several years ago. Advertisement has a very strong effect. It can impress people, influence their thoughts and even change them. Of course, it is impossible to encourage all people from all over the world to use public transport only. But still a certain number of people will definitely give up using cars and will give preferences to the public transport as time goes by. Moreover, we can also provide people with the benefits they can get from usage of public transport. For example, it is possible to provide those people who use public transport with the 20% discount when they need to buy something. Also, it is possible to implement special cards that will be some kinds of an opportunity to change bus to train for free. As a final point, let’s take a look at one more thing we can provide people with in order to encourage them to...
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...Public transport is crucial to the livability of any city. Millions of journeys are made by buses, trams and trains weekly. Imagine what would happen if the only transport choice available to a city’s millions of citizens is by car? The answer is chaos. A city without public transport is a city that regularly grinds to a halt. First of all, Public transport is at least twice as energy efficient as taking private cars; a full car has far less toxic waste as 50 private cars. Whereas a full train provides a greatly reduced amount of pollution than 600 cars. In addition, the cost of petrol is quickly on the rise. Car payments, gas prices and parking can be a major budget drain. Therefore taking public transport is a much cheaper option. It can be up to four times cheaper than taking a car. This means taking public transport will leave more money for more important things like taking your family on a holiday. Furthermore, taking public transport is far less stressful. Without having to be constantly focused on driving or wasting time sitting in traffic or looking for an elusive car park, public transport allows time to relax, listen to music, play games, talk to a friend, read a book or get work done. Public transport can be linked to many health benefits by promoting active lifestyles. By walking or cycling even some of the way to your closest public transport stop or final destination, you can improve your physical fitness. As a result of this, and by avoiding the stress that...
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...1. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY OF THE KEY POINT OF THE ARTICLE 2.1 Introduction Singapore is an urban city with a modern multi-modal public transport service system. However, there have existed gaps between customer expectations and customer perceptions, especially in using bus services. This report will analyze these gaps and how bus operators recover their service quality and satisfy their customers. 2.2 Summary of the key points of the article Recently, The Land Transport Authority (LTA) has allowed the first privately run feeder bus service to boost the network. This is good news for customers who are suffering of waiting for the bus for a long time at crowded bus stations during the peak hours and using congested buses. Customers are happy with the improvement of bus service. Previously, customers were frustrated because of insufficiency of bus service in peak hours. They have to wait from 30 to 40 minutes. But from now on, customers will be more satisfaction with the improvement of bus services in Singapore. Bus frequency has improved by 1 to 5 minutes instead of 10 to 13 minutes previously. The “peak period short service” 912P reduce waiting time and ease congestion. Extra supply of bus service will always be helpful with customers in reducing the crowded situation in some buses and reduce waiting time at the congested bus stations. 2. HOW THE ARTICLE RELATES TO THE CONCEPTS 3.3 Customers’ expectations of bus services “Customers’ expectations...
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...There are certain advantages of public and private transport and certain disadvantages. This essay compares and contrasts the pros and cons points between the public and private transport. Firstly, i will describe the advantage and disadvantage in public transport. There are many advantages in public transport, the first point, the public transport, such as buses, traines, subways and trams are cheaper then private transport and another point, the public transport in the larg cities is more comfortable, for instance, it will be no traffic jams, the last important point, the public transportation vehicles are more environmentally friendly then private transport. However, there are also some disadvantage in public transport, first of all, the public transport only stops at designated places, next point, there is less privecy then cars, as well as, sometimes in public transport there is not insured a seat, which may be full. secondly, i will describe the advantage and disadvantage in privat transport. There are several points of advantage in private transport, for exampel, cars. The main point, the private transport more comfortable because people are alone in their private cars. Another benefit of driving your own car that you can park exactly where you want, also, private transport can also follow a more direct path than public transport. On other hand, there is a number of disadvantage. First, you have to pay for gas, parking, a mechanic, tolls and other costs...
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...Some people use public transportation (buses and subways) to get around a city. Others use private cars. Which do you prefer? Support your answer with specific reasons and examples. You should write at least 250 words. These days, more and more people use their private car to get around a city. It leads more heavy traffic jam and pollution. These problems often occur in modern cities. So in my opinion I prefer using public transportation to private cars. First of all, using public transportation is very economical. If you have your own car, you have to pay a lot of money for service, gas, repair, and insurance. Beside that you only have to give driver a small amount of money when you take a buses or subways. You also do not mind to find a place for parking. In addition, using public transportation would be better for the environment and people’s health as well. A private car can only fit five passengers but on the other side, a bus or subway can fit about fifty people. So more people use public transportation can reduce pollution because there are less car driving on the road, there are fewer fumes and also less traffic jam. As we know carbon dioxide that released from the cars can make harm to health of people. Furthermore travelling by buses or subways you are not under high pressure of driving. You can sleep, read book or listen to music when you travel by public transportation. On the other hand, you can waste much time to wait for buses or subways or you have to...
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...1. INTRODUCTION Nowadays, public transport plays an important role in each country in the world. This is because public transport is the most important issue in our lives. People have different views about public transport. In this report the authors will compare the views on public transport between 0 ELICOS students and Australians. 1.1. Background - Regarding the selection of public transport of Australian, the survey have shown that the rate of using public transport increases significantly between 2006 and 2011 while train occupy the highest with 6.3%, bus and tram with 3.5% and 0.6% respectively in 2011. However, the proportion of using private vehicle is higher than public transport in Australia (Australia- method of travel to work, n, d). According to the survey Australian Bureau of Statistics (2009). We want to know why people choice public transport. 51% of people think that public transport is convenient/ less stressful/ reduce travel time. 21 % of people have no private form of transport, 12% of people think cheaper than own transport, 10% of the people because the public transport services near home, and nearly 5% people think environment/ weather/ other. Our research find figure shows the frequency of people who use public transport. The most figures of three to seven days a week is 35%. The proportion of people use public transport one to two days week 20%. The figure of less than once a month and once a month is similar 15% and 16% respectively. 11%...
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...study are the percentages of the using the public transportation by residents in daily working trip and leisure trip, also the factors that influences the residents about their satisfaction when using the public transport. Besides, the recommendation is to propose the mitigation from the problems that be highlighted. Based on the findings it will be as a guideline to create the recommendation, which is to make the study area become improve, lively, sustain and liveable. The recommendation will improve the services of the public transport, to find ways how to attract people more use the public transport and intend...
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...http://www.termpaperwarehouse.com/essay-on/Financial-Analysis-On-Smrt/25773 THE tender to operate the 42km MRT Downtown Line is now open – the first designed to prevent public transport companies from slipping into complacency as far as customer service is concerned. For starters, the Downtown Line contract is for only 15 years, down from the 30 to 40 years given to operators of earlier lines. The operators of the Downtown Line will also have to lease operating assets such as trains from the Government. Under the old system, rail operators were given the initial set of operating assets, but had to foot the bill for replacement sets. And unlike some previous tenders which were open to all interested parties, the new tender is open only to incumbent transport operators SMRT Corp and SBS Transit. Tenders for future lines – such as the Thomson and Eastern Region lines – might be open to players other than the incumbents, including those from abroad. When the lease for the Downtown Line expires in 2032, another tender for an operator may be called. Changes to the business model were mentioned in August, when Second Transport Minister Lim Hwee Hua told Parliament a higher level of contestability was still possible with just two players. ‘The issue here is really not about the number of potential players in the industry,’ she had said then. ‘Rather, the intent is to increase the level of competitive pressure in the industry by issuing shorter licence periods and...
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...(2001), will be used to refer to public transport throughout this research. Brief history of Public Transport A general historical overview of public transport is outlined from the perspective of Rodrigue et al., (2013). They intimate that urban transport can be categorized into collective, individual and freight transportation. In most instances, passengers and freight movements complement each other, however, they tend to be competing for passengers, the use of available land and other transport infrastructures at times. The walking-horsecar era (1800–1890s):...
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...Even though centuries have passed since the very first bicycle was invented, the popularity of bicycles does not seem to decline with the lapse of time. Not only are they the indispensable means of transportation in most parts of the world, but they also evolved into a recreational sport which plentiful health benefits come along. However, the need for using bicycles for travel in a modern transportation system, especially that of an urban area, has been questioned in recent years with respect to its cost-effectiveness. In this essay, I examine both the benefits and drawbacks of the use of bicycles in public transport and form a brief conclusion based on my stance on this issue. Some advocates argue that cycling can greatly reduce the air pollution in Hong Kong. The air quality in urban areas of Hong Kong is worsening each day due to detrimental emissions and pollutants produced by the heavy traffic volume, which mainly consists of motor vehicles. Hitchcock and Vedrenne (2014) consider bicycles to be promising alternatives for motor vehicles in an effort to improve the air quality of urban areas, since they are low-carbon and human-powered vehicles that produce zero emissions when ridden. Indeed, bicycles are more environmental-friendly than motor vehicles, but its effectiveness in making a difference to the general air quality remains questionable. The findings from the research conducted by Rakowska et al. (2014) imply that reducing the portion of motor vehicles in...
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...Introduction Public transport plays a major role in the development of any country and therefore needs to be planned for and managed to ensure efficiency, control and reliability within the systems. There are quite a number of problems that the individual transport modes face in the city of Johannesburg municipality that could effectively be solved by thoroughly implementing an integrated public transport system. This system will involve a lot of transport planning and is will be responsible for the development of strategy and programmes to direct and manage both the private, business, and public transport systems throughout the City Of Johannesburg Municipal area towards a common council vision. The different public transport modes must be integrated with transport infrastructure on which they operate. The infrastructure should be designed to suit efficient and effective operations. Inefficient operations will require higher capacity infrastructure, with the solution to improve efficiencies and not providing costly extra infrastructure. The role of the transport system is to serve the movement needs of persons and goods. A number of different modes, or technologies, have developed over the years that provide different levels of efficiency for a variety of trip purposes, volumes and distances of travel. It is important to recognise the operational efficiency of a mode that makes use of a particular type and form of infrastructure. Cars require much more road infrastructure...
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...Singapore’s transport system is not effective. Do you agree? Traveling in Singapore is both easy and economical. There is an efficient public transportation network, which offers taxis, buses, and the modern MRT rail system. With its excellent public transport system, Singapore is, without a doubt, the easiest city in Asia to get around. Not only that, Singapore’s bus network is also extremely frequent and comprehensive. Visitors rarely have to wait more than a few minutes and a bus will get them anywhere. With this in mind, I personally feel that the public transport in Singapore is extremely efficient in service and convenient for the public. Have you ever thought what life would be like in Singapore without the MRT? Most Singaporeans can no longer remember a time without the MRT. It has become a very indispensable way to get from one end of Singapore to another, and it is particularly useful for getting to downtown areas such as Orchard Road or the Central Business District, where traffic can be heavy. Unquestionably, travelling from one part of Singapore to another is a breeze thanks to a highly penetrative public transport system, which consists of the MRT, buses and taxis. Therefore, the public transport in Singapore is definitely efficient and systematic in getting Singaporeans around the country. There are many reasons why Singapore’s public transport system is well known for the convenience it provides and ease of travel for the public. The MRT network has three...
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...Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Faculty of Science (Academic Year 2013/2014) May 2013 Tri-Mester UDPL 2333 TRANSPORT PLANNING AND DEMAND ANALYSIS GROUP ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Course Details Course | : Bachelor of Science (Hons) Logistics and International Shipping | Year and Semester | : Y2T2, Y2T3 | Tutorial Group | : T1 | Tutor’s Name | : En. Mohamad Fared bin Mohamad Makmor | Lecturer’s Name | : En. Mohamad Fared bin Mohamad Makmor | Assignment Detail Topic : Land Public Transport Commission (SPAD) Due Date : Monday, 26th. August 2013, Week 14 Important Note : Submission of assignment is the responsibility of the students. Student Details Name | Student ID | 1. Ho Kah Sing | 1003725 | 2. Lim Ji Wei | 1201176 | 3. Lim Jia Yap | 1005132 | 4. Ng Joe Yee | 1002691 | 5. Sow Szu Jie | 1200926 | 6. Yap Hui Woon | 1200685 | Assignment overall marks: Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman Faculty of Science (Academic Year 2013/2014) May 2013 Tri-Mester UDPL 2333 TRANSPORT PLANNING AND DEMAND ANALYSIS BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONS) LOGISTICS AND INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING YEAR 2, TRIMESTER 2 MARKING SCHEME FOR GROUP ASSIGNMENT No. | Guideline Criteria | Rating | Actual Score | 1. | Company Background | 2 marks | | 2. | Analysis | 5 marks | | 3. | Strategy Analysis | 3 marks | | 4. | Recommendations | 6 marks | | 5. | Conclusion | 2 marks | | | Project Organization | 2 marks | | |...
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