Public Transportation

Bus Rapid Transit and Urban Development in Latin America

Rodriguez, D
Vergel, E
2013

Latin American cities have been leaders in the implementation of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems—a transportation mode often characterized by infrastructure improvements that prioritize transit over other vehicles, provide off-vehicle fare payment, and allow quick vehicle access. More than 45 cities in Latin America have invested in BRT, accounting for 63.6 percent of BRT ridership worldwide

Desarrollo Urbano Orientado a Los Sistemas de Transporte Público Masivo Tipo BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) en Quito y Bogotá

Rodriguez, D
Vergel, E
Camargo, W
2013

Este informe reseña un estudio que combina métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos para comprender el impacto que las inversiones en sistemas de transporte publico masivo en autobús (Bus Rapid Transit, o BRT) en Quito y Bogotá han tenido sobre el desarrollo del suelo urbano. Se usan zonas de intervención y control en cada área de estudio para examinar cuantitativamente los cambios en los mercados de suelo de ambas ciudades. Los resultados del estudio describen las características de dichos mercados de suelo, tales como el área construida completada por año (en ambas ciudades), nuevas unidades...

Joint Impacts of Bus Rapid Transit and Urban Form on Vehicle Ownership: New Evidence From a Quasi-Longitudinal Analysis in Bogotá, Colombia

Combs, T
Rodriguez, D
2014

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has become popular as a means to provide non-automobile-based mobility and alleviate the impacts of rising traffic congestion in cities around the world. However, there is little empirical evidence supporting BRT’s potential to meet these objectives. This research improves our knowledge of BRT’s potential as an alternative to vehicle ownership at the household level and provides new evidence of the role of urban form in supporting transit investment. We use a difference-in-differences research design to examine the change in vehicle ownership from before to...

Neighborhood Design, Neighborhood Location, and Three Types of Walking: Results from the Washington DC Area

Cho, GH
Rodriguez, DA
2015

Understanding how the built environment at a neighborhood scale is associated with individuals' walking has been a common research objective in public health and city planning. In contrast to the extant literature, we examine whether a neighborhood's location defined at a regional scale is associated with walking and whether this association is separately identifiable from the association of the neighborhood built environment and walking. The findings indicated that walking for commuting purposes was associated more strongly with neighborhood location than with the neighborhood built...

ITS Information And Services To Enhance The Mobility Of Disabled Travelers

Chen, Wan-hui
Uwaine, Rochelle
Klaver, Kelley
Kurani, Ken
Jovanis, Paul P.
1998

This study examined the potential of advanced information systems to increase the mobility of disabled travelers using public transportation. A stated preference survey inquired as to whether subjects would make more trips by transit, paratransit, and/or real-time paratransit if kiosk, on-board, in-home, and/or personal information systems were available. The results show that these systems do have the potential to increase the use of public transportation by disabled travelers, as they allow for more trip flexibility that what is currently available. Regression and log-linear models show...

Development of Deployment Strategy for an Integrated BRT System

Miller, Mark A.
Tan, Chin-Woo
Golub, Aaron
Hickman, Mark
Lau, Peter
Zhang, Wei-Bin
2006

BRT mixes the flexibility of traditional bus transit service with an array of higher performance rail transit features. One of its advantages over rail, however, is its possibility for incremental and flexible deployment. With this flexibility and incremental nature comes a deployment process for BRT that is highly complex because numerous elements can be incorporated in any number of distinct phases. In almost all BRT deployments, ITS and advanced bus technologies have been applied to BRT, however, in less than a fully integrated manner. This project explores how deployment decisions can...

Evaluation of Feasibility of UAV Technologies for Remote Surveying BART Rail Systems

2018

Routine inspection and monitoring of railway tracks and facilities is an important task to ensure operational safety. The existing standard manual and rail vehicle based investigation are substantially time consuming and inaccurate. UAV-based autonomous monitoring and inspection technology has shown great potential in many fields and industries but it has been rarely explored in railway transit systems. UC Berkeley California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technologies   (PATH) in partnership with Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) investigated  the application...

Short-Term Planning and Policy Interventions to Promote Cycling in Urban Centers: Findings from a Commute Mode Choice Analysis in Barcelona, Spain

Braun, L
Rodriguez, D
Cole-Hunter, T
Ambros, A
Donaire-Gonzalez, D
Jerrett, M
Mendez, M
Nieuwenhuijsen, MJ
Nazelle, A De
2026
Cycling for transportation has become an increasingly important component of strategies to address public health, climate change, and air quality concerns in urban centers. Within this context, planners and policy makers would benefit from an improved understanding of available interventions and their relative effectiveness for cycling promotion. We examined predictors of bicycle commuting that are relevant to planning and policy intervention, particularly those amenable to short- and medium-term action. We estimated a travel mode choice model using data from a...

Bus Operations in Santa Clara County, Potential Uses of AVL, and Framework for Evaluating Control Strategies

Chira-Chavala, T.
Gillen, David
Klieman, Lee
Marshall, Amy
1999

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), which provides public transportation to citizens of Santa Clara County, California, operates buses, light rail, and paratransit service. The VTA is currently installing automatic vehicle location (AVL) equipment on its bus fleet. This report presents the results of Phase 1 research, which examines the various performance and operational characteristics of the fixed-route bus system operated by the VTA. The purpose is to identify performance characteristics of the bus system that should and could be improved with and without utilizing...

Smart Parking Management Pilot Project: A Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District Parking Demonstration

Shaheen, Susan
Rodier, Caroline
Eaken, Amanda M.
2005

In almost every major city in the U.S. and internationally, parking problems are ubiquitous. It is well known that the limited availability of parking contributes to roadway congestion, air pollution, and driver frustration and that the cost of expanding traditional parking capacity is frequently prohibitive. However, less research has addressed the effect of insufficient parking at transit stations on transit use. In the San Francisco Bay Area, parking has recently been at or near capacity at many of the 31 Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District stations with parking facilities. Smart...