Sustainability and urban public transportation

KC Sinha - Journal of Transportation Engineering, 2003 - ascelibrary.org
… in urban density and affecting the relative use of private transportation and public transit. …
sustainability is directly linked with transit and transit’s viability depends on urban density, it …

How urban density, network topology and socio-economy influence public transport ridership: Empirical evidence from 48 European metropolitan areas

JB Ingvardson, OA Nielsen - Journal of Transport Geography, 2018 - Elsevier
… Visually, a quite clear relationship between the density of rail-based public transport … seen
between the urban density and the density of the rail-based public transport network and the …

Urban density and energy consumption: a new look at old statistics

O Mindali, A Raveh, I Salomon - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2004 - Elsevier
urban density and transportation energy consumption, and to single out the conditions that
need to exist simultaneously with an intensified urbandensities and public transportation in …

Public transport accessibility in metropolitan areas: A new approach incorporating population density

T Saghapour, S Moridpour, RG Thompson - Journal of Transport …, 2016 - Elsevier
… that integrates population density within geographical areas. This … public transport service
frequency and population density as an important distributional indicator. A public transport

Urban density and climate change: A STIRPAT analysis using city-level data

B Liddle - Journal of Transport Geography, 2013 - Elsevier
… the cost to riders of public transport would lower private transport energy consumption. For
… size and urban density) are particularly important in determining private transport energy …

International comparison of the relationship between urban structure and the service level of urban public transportation—A comprehensive analysis in local cities in …

R Matsunaka, T Oba, D Nakagawa, M Nagao… - Transport Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
… Initially, we investigate urban public transportation frequencies … the urban public transportation
system and the urban structure … and transit use, and after he calculated urban densities for …

Urban densities and transit: A multi-dimensional perspective

R Cervero, E Guerra - 2011 - escholarship.org
… High population density increases the costs of all urban transportation systems, but substantially
less for rail than for other modes” (p. 246). Using a unique panel constructed from data …

How dense are we?: Another look at urban density and transport patterns in Australia, Canada and the USA

P Mees - Road & transport research: a journal of Australian and …, 2009 - search.informit.org
… policy in Australia has been based on the belief that high levels of car use and poor public
transport are mainly the result of low urban densities. There has been considerable debate …

The advantages of a high density, mixed land use, linear urban development

CO Tong, SC Wong - Transportation, 1997 - Springer
… correlated with urban density. The conclusion was that cities with higher urban density were
less dependent on the private car for travel and had more viable public transport systems. …

Bus rapid transit (BRT): An efficient and competitive mode of public transport

R Cervero - 2013 - escholarship.org
… Relationships between urban densities and BRT cost … urban rail transit systems. Information
on the cost effectiveness of heavyrail, light rail, and BRT systems relative to urban densities