Some measures of increasing rail transit riderships: Case studies |
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| Authors: | Yun-quan Zhang Xiao-pei Yan Comtois Claude |
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| Institution: | (1) Centre for Urban & Regional Studies, Zhongshan University, 510275 Guangzhou, P. R. China;(2) Centre for Research on Transportation, University of Montreal, H3C3J7 Montreal, Canada |
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| Abstract: | This paper is mainly concerned with how to increase rail transit ridership and how to coordinate with multimodity to optimize the entire public transportation systems. Three case cities, Montreal, Toronto and San Francisco, with metro systems are reviewed in different aspects, including urban planning, transport policy, flexible fare system, safety and security measure, special service, new technical application to improve the quality and value of its service for increasing revenues and profit, comtributing to the long term development of public transit. Some conclusions can be drawn: 1) urban planning should be closely connected with urban transport planning; 2) the role of government is predominant to implement railtransit; 3) the facilifies of railtransit should be advanced, reliable and safe; 4) quality service should be match with rail facilities; 5) special service for the disabled, yound and senior should be advocated. |
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| Keywords: | rail transit ridership transport policy integrated fare system |
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