UTAS-Ride: organization-based ridesharing platform for commuters

While commercial ride-sourcing service providers, like Uber, have gained enormous popularity over the last decade, non-commercial and incidental ridesharing is rarely an option for ride seekers. Although incidental ridesharing is beneficial in easing urban congestion and environment, it is not accepted by a number of people due to stranger danger and time delay. Organization-based ridesharing allows coworkers within the same organization to share rides for commuting purposes. The similar commuting time and certain level of acquaintance among co-workers make organization-based ridesharing more acceptable than other forms of ridesharing. Thus, this paper proposes an organizational ridesharing platform called UTAS-Ride for mobile devices. UTAS-Ride allows its users to create a unique carpool for the affiliated organization and share rides with co-workers in the carpool. Functions like user validation and routing are provided to separate different user groups and calculate routes. The platform is an exploration regarding organization-based ridesharing on mobile devices

Sustainable Transportation for Maine’s Future

Maine is dependent on its transportation infrastructure for continued economic strength and growth, particularly on the 22,670 miles of public roads. Maine ranks fourteenth in the nation for the largest number of highway miles traveled annually per capita - 14,912 per year. Maine is highly reliant on its road system because large areas of the State lack transportation alternatives. This means that the current and future condition of the roadways is a major concern. How such a crucial infrastructure will continue to be supported and enhanced financially to meet the growing needs of the State must be considered carefully

Support for and Behavioral Responses to Tolls: Insights From Hampton Roads, Virginia

This chapter analyzes the experiences with tolling in the Hampton Roads region of Southeastern Virginia to better understand residents\u27 and drivers\u27 support for tolls and behavioral responses to tolls. The Hampton Roads region, with its population of 1.7 million and extensive network of highways, roads, bridges, and tunnels, has a long history of toll facilities that date back to the 1920s. The most recent tunnel tolls, associated with the Elizabeth River Crossing Project and introduced in February 2014, are the focus of this chapter. This chapter analyzes two sets of survey data to provide insights that have implications for policies regarding tolling: (1) The Life in Hampton Roads Surveys which includes questions about support for tolls and toll avoidance behaviors; and (2) two surveys (pre- and post- toll implementation) commissioned by the regional transportation planning organization

Service Quality Analysis and Assessment Method for European Carsharing Systems

The carsharing service aims to increase the utilization of the temporal capacity of the cars resulting that fewer cars and parking spaces are sufficient for the same mobility demands. The key factor of the introduction and the development of the service is to explore the features of the quality and to compare them to the expectations of the users. We have developed a service quality analysis and assessment method. Our devised compensated multicriteria method takes into consideration the properties of the service, area and population. The quality is varying both in space and time, and also depending on availability of other transportation modes. We applied the method in Budapest. A round-trip carsharing service were assessed from a user aspect. Representation of the calculated results on a dynamic map allows for the operators to plan and evaluate the quality of service both before implementation and during operation. “Average distance to the nearest unoccupied vehicle”, “service type” and “parking conditions” parameters have been found as the most important service parameters

10/7/2011

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9/30/2011

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