Tag Archives: Mobility Resource Center

MRC: Understanding the effects of complex seasonality on suburban daily transit ridership

Understanding the effects of complex seasonality on suburban daily transit ridership

Authors: Syeed Kashfi, Jonathan M. Bunker, and Tan Yigitcanlar

Publisher: Journal of Transport Geography

This paper explored the relationship between daily bus ridership, seasonality and weather variables for a one-year period, 2012 in Brisbane

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MRC: Effects of Transit Quality of Service Characteristics on Daily Bus Ridership

Effects of Transit Quality of Service Characteristics on Daily Bus Ridership

Authors: Syeed Kashfi, Jonathan M. Bunker, and Tan Yigitcanlar

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

This study explores how explicit transit quality of services (TQoS) measures including service frequency, service span, and travel time ratio, along with implicit environmental predictors such as grade factor influence bus ridership using a case study city of Brisbane, Australia

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MRC: Factors Influencing Young Peoples’ Perceptions of Personal Safety on Public Transport

Factors Influencing Young Peoples’ Perceptions of Personal Safety on Public Transport

Authors: Graham Currie, Alexa Delbosc, and Sarah Mahmoud

Publisher: Journal of Public Transportation

This paper explores factors influencing perceptions of safety on public transport using an empirical analysis of a survey of young people in Melbourne, Australia

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MRC: Definition of Planned and Unplanned Transfer of Public Transport Service and User Decisions to Use Routes with Transfers

Definition of Planned and Unplanned Transfer of Public Transport Service and User Decisions to Use Routes with Transfers

Authors: Subeh Chowdhury and Avidshai Ceder

Publisher: Journal of Public Transportation

This research determines the attributes that define a connection as being planned transfer and explains the difference in transit users’ perceptions between planned and unplanned transfers and, thus, their decision to use routes with transfers

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