Future of Rural Transit

Hough, Jill; Taleqani, Ali Rahim

doi:10.5038/2375-0901.21.1.4

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“…Urban areas have a higher percentage of people with college degrees than rural areas, though both have similar levels of high-school education. The median income is also higher in urban areas, but there is also higher percentage of people living below the poverty line, since the cost of living is more expensive (Hough & Taleqani, 2018).…”

Section: Demographic Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Behavior and New Mobility Trends in the United States, Europe, and China

Cohen

2019

SSRN Journal

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New mobility trends such as shared mobility, autonomous vehicles, and mobility as a service are poised to disrupt the way the world moves. Since transport behavior is rooted in human behavior, how these trends are adopted will be influenced by behavioral preferences as well as cultural trends. This literature review looks at the behavioral preferences that will influence the uptake and impact of new mobility in the three largest markets: the United States, Europe, and China. The author finds that factors such as cost, time, comfort, convenience, safety, identity creation, and environmental concern are all important in transport modal choice. Larger societal trends such as changing preferences amongst younger generations as well as differences between urban and rural riders will also influence uptake of new mobility. Ultimately, the sustainability of new mobility in terms of reduced emissions and congestion will depend upon the adoption of shared models over private car ownership, which will require behavioral changes that could be incentivized with smart public policy.

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Section: Demographic Changesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human Behavior and New Mobility Trends in the United States, Europe, and China

Cohen

2019

SSRN Journal

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“…In many rural areas, Public Transport (PT) is typically affected by shortcomings such as a limited reach of the network, low frequency of services, or scarce daily coverage (Farrington and Farrington 2005 ; Hough and Taleqani 2018 ; Moseley 1979 ). These issues largely depend on the limited and dispersed transport demand, which often makes rural PT financially unsustainable (ENRD 2016 ).…”

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What can be done with today’s budget and demand? Scenarios of rural public transport automation in Mühlwald (South Tyrol)

Dianin,

Gidam,

Hauger

2023

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Rural public transport is typically limited in its coverage, frequency and service period. This is often linked to a low and dispersed demand, which makes the provision of competitive transport services often financially unsustainable. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) might change this condition, allowing for an upgrade of public transport in rural areas. Nevertheless, current studies are mostly focused on urban areas, while the potential for rural applications remains underexplored. This paper contributes to this research line by developing a set of so-called AV scenarios for a potential upgrade of public transport in the rural study area of Mühlwald (South Tyrol, Italy). These scenarios are designed following three core principles. First, line-based and on-demand applications of AVs are not only individually tested, but even combined over space and time in different manners to exploit their synergy. Second, the performances of the scenarios are quantified by assuming the today´s agency cost budget, public-transport demand and peak-hour system capacity to be fixed parameters to comply with. Third, the uncertainties regarding the impacts of AVs on the agency costs are taken into account by defining optimistic, neutral and pessimistic variants of each scenario. Results indicate that the full replacement of current bus lines with a system of on-demand shared taxis might provide the highest performance improvements with the same budget as today, but only with a much bigger fleet. At the same time, the combination of bus lines and on-demand services over time (and space) might provide similarly competitive results while keeping the needed fleet size, service distance and service time relatively low. With this study, policy makers may get insights into the potential improvements of rural public transport that might be initially obtained with different uses of AVs, given a fixed agency cost budget and demand.

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