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Each city need to develop sustainable transport plans according to its future developments. This means identifying the best policy package of transport measures that could produce more sustainable future scenarios: lowest environmental impact, but also better social standards and [...]Abstract
This book examines the urban transport crisis from an international, comparative perspective. Throughout the industrialized world car ownership and use have grown rapidly over the past few decades while, in contrast, public transport use has either fallen or stagnated. These trends [...]Abstract
Thesis (Masters by research(Civil Engineering))--University of South Australia, 2018. Includes bibliographical references (pages 73-75) Moving people around in cars accounts for 8.3% of Australian carbon emissions. According to the Australian climate council, these transport emissions [...]Abstract
Popularity of shared vehicle systems in recent years makes necessary to stablish a design criteria in order to adapt those system to larger scales. Probably, the biggest problem to face is rebalancing. Present work stablishes an optimization method of those rebalancing operations, [...]Abstract
Thesis (PhD(Planning))--University of South Australia, 2016. Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-138) The research objective was primarily to assess the degree of connectedness among the stressors affecting the transport system, which is the central phase in the pathway [...]Abstract
English: road safety has become a main issue for governments and car manufacturers in the last twenty years. Thus, the concept of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) appeared. This concept is used when talking about communication technologies between vehicles and infrastructure [...]Abstract
Understanding and modelling route choice behaviour is central to predicting the formation and propagation of urban road congestion. Yet within conventional literature disagreements persist around the nature of route choice behaviour, and how it should be modelled. In this paper, both [...]Abstract
Demand Responsive Transportation (DRT) is currently growing in our cities as shared ride-hailing services operated by private companies, providing a hybrid service between the bus and the taxi. Like DRT, these new on-demand services could be used to feed and complement the public [...]