Free or heavily discounted public transport can help achieve social goals. But governments must carefully navigate equity considerations.
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On-demand transit services use smart devices and real-time network information to schedule rides for passengers.
Amid bus route cuts and rail strikes, can the answer to our future public transport needs be found in the hi-tech prototypes being trialled around the UK?
Increasing even part-time remote work disrupts public transit revenue. Agencies need to adapt fare structures and business models to meet the changing work market.
Many communities in Canada currently lack intercity and regional transportation. A national public transportation system would improve connectedness between cities and access to essential services.
Bus Rapid Transit has powerful supporters around the world – but shouldn’t public transport be designed in the public interest?
Top tips from transport academics: target the second, consider the first and ignore the third.
An expert crunches the numbers to reveal just how bleak Britain’s bus crisis has become.
Buses are set to be replaced by private and autonomous vehicles – but it’s not clear how society is going to deal with it.
South Africa needs to review its approach to rolling out Bus Rapid Transit systems as the current model is proving to be too expensive and unsustainable.
Infrastructure Australia’s latest report is substantial but, critically, it fails to incorporate the transport thinking needed to develop more compact cities that work better for everyone.
Traffic jam problems may be gone for good with the use of bus scheduling technology being developed at the University of…
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Professor of Operations Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Visiting Research Fellow, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Postdoctoral fellow, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University
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PhD student, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University
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Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University
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Professor, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University
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Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Researcher in Transport Policy and Governance, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
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Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, University of Saskatchewan
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Professeur au département d'études urbaines et touristiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Professeur titulaire, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Professor, Dept of Sociology and Social Studies, University of Regina
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Lecturer in Technology and Innovation Management, The Open University
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Professor of Transport Strategy, The Open University
