TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2144 contains 21 papers that explore the spatial impacts of public transport on traffic congestion relief, attractiveness of light rail, the effect of gas prices on transit ridership, measuring the gap between car and transit accessibility, the monocentric city with discrete transit stations, impact of an urban partnership agreement on transit user perception of express bus service, estimating transit accessibility, and the impact of bus rapid transit stations on surrounding home values. This issue of the TRR also examines transit fare restructuring, encouraging drive-alone commuters to try transit, the success of shuttles, customer loyalty in public transportation context, public response to transit systems with particular service and place-making attributes, printed transit information and its impact on customer satisfaction, using transit smart card data to analyze travel time and transfers, wayfinding-oriented design of passenger guidance signs for transit centers, bicycling and transit, art in transportation, intermodal transfer between bicycles and rail transit, and project construction scheduling for intermodal terminal planning problems. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting