INDIAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT (2006)
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@MISC{Advani06indianjournal,
author = {Mukti Advani and Geetam Tiwari},
title = {INDIAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT},
year = {2006}
}
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Abstract
Transportation demands in urban areas continue to increase rapidly as a result of both population growth and changes in travel patterns. In the era of environment concerns and limited space available in cities, transport planners have to provide a system, which can ensure safe and clean mobility to all city residents. This requires planning a system, which is affordable, reliable and efficient from the users ’ as well as operator’s perspectives. A road based bus system offers an opportunity for creating a system capable of meeting multiple needs of users and operators. This paper presents a critical review of recent planning methodologies and selected decision support systems for optimizing urban bus transport services. These methodologies offer incremental improvements in bus system to meet the capacity requirements of different size cities. It is imperative that bus systems are planned such that they satisfy the requirements of users as well as service providers within the limited resource constraints. A flexible, comfortable, easily available and reliable bus service is expected to shift people from private vehicles to public transport. This paper presents a review of strategies which can be employed to satisfy public transport demands of different city sizes.
Keyphrases
bus system indian journal transport management environment concern limited resource constraint private vehicle limited space capacity requirement incremental improvement service provider transportation demand clean mobility public transport decision support system recent planning methodology different city size reliable bus service transport planner population growth different size city operator perspective critical review multiple need public transport demand urban bus transport service travel pattern urban area city resident
