TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2217 consists of 20 papers that explore travel behavior and demand potential of tram- and bus-based neighborhoods, impact of gasoline prices on transit ridership, cost-effective approaches to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through public transportation, predicting the mean and variance of transit segment and route travel times, complexity of transit tours, real-time transit information, and cost-effectiveness of employment transportation services. This issue of the TRR also examines future sky train usage in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; demographic analysis of route choice for public transit; river ferries; a web-based transit trip-planning system; mobile transit information; real-time ridesharing; expanding metropolitan travel choices; peer-to-peer carsharing; configuration of innovative minibus service in Lisbon, Portugal; patronage of community shuttles in New Jersey; pedestrian accessibility to transit stations; accessibility-based transit need index; and bicycle and transit integration. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting