An activity-based system of models for student mobility simulation

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The Breath of Sense: Language, Structure, and the Paradox of Origin

Within contemporary analytic philosophy, at least, varieties of “naturalism” have attained a widespread dominance. In this essay I suggest, however, that a closer look at the history of the linguistic turn in philosophy can offer helpful terms for rethinking what we mean in applying the categories of “nature” and “culture” within a philosophical reflection on human life and practice. For, as I argue, the central experience of this history—namely, philosophy’s transformative encounter with what it envisions as the logical or conceptual structure of everyday language – also repeatedly demonstrates the existence of a fundamental aporia or paradox at the center of the claim of language upon an ordinary human life. I discuss the occurrence of this aporia, and attempts to resolve it, in the philosophical writing of Carnap, Quine, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and McDowell. I conclude that the prevailing naturalistic style in analytic philosophy, whatever its recommendations, is itself the outcome of an unsuccessful attempt to resolve the central aporia of twentieth-century philosophical reflection on language. Closer attention to this aporia reveals that language, as we find it in both theoretical and everyday reflection, is in the most important sense, neither essentially “natural” nor “cultural.

Transit Passenger Perceptions: Face-to-Face Versus Web-Based Survey

In this paper, face-to-face and web-based survey methods of collecting transit passenger perception data are compared using two transit customer satisfaction survey tools. Multivariate statistical analyses are applied to determine the differences between the two surveys. Some differences in behavior and attitudes of web survey respondents compared with those from a face-to-face survey are found. The results can help transit agencies manage their bus services to improve passenger satisfaction and service quality

Performance indicators for an objective measure of public transport service quality

The measurement of transit performance represents a very useful tool for ensuring continuous increase of the quality of the delivered transit services, and for allocating resources among competing transit agencies. Transit service quality can be evaluated by subjective measures based on passengers’ perceptions, and objective measures represented by disaggregate performance measures expressed as numerical values, which must be compared with fixed standards or past performances. The proposed research work deals with service quality evaluation based on objective measures; specifically, an extensive overview and an interpretative review of the objective indicators until investigated by researchers are proposed. The final aim of the work is to give a review as comprehensive as possible of the objective indicators, and to provide some suggestions for the selection of the most appropriate indicators for evaluating a transit service aspect

A service quality experimental measure for public transport

In this paper the importance of service quality attributes for public transport is estabilished by Importance Value calculation. Attribute weights (IV) are calculated by a specific empirical procedure in which a rate is assigned to each attribute according to the preferences of passengers. Finally, a Service Quality Index (SQI) for measuring the effectiveness of supplied services is calculated according to the main service quality attributes and their weights. This index can be useful to planners to choose more appropriate public transport agencies. Futhermore, it can be used by transport agencies to improve supplied service regarding more convenient service quality attributes

A Stated Preference Experiment for Measuring Service Quality in Public Transport

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Transit Passenger Perceptions: Face-to-Face Versus Web-Based Survey

In this paper, face-to-face and web-based survey methods of collecting transit passenger perception data are compared using two transit customer satisfaction survey tools. Multivariate statistical analyses are applied to determine the differences between the two surveys. Some differences in behavior and attitudes of web survey respondents compared with those from a face-to-face survey are found. The results can help transit agencies manage their bus services to improve passenger satisfaction and service quality

Spatial association techniques for analysing trip distribution in an urban area

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multilevel comprehensive evaluation of the railway service quality

Abstract A multilevel fuzzy synthetic evaluation model to evaluate the railway service quality is proposed based on the fuzzy theory. An evaluation indicator system with three grades evaluation indicators is established, and their weights are determined on the basis of opinions expressed by interviewed passengers. Railway service quality is evaluated by the value of a comprehensive satisfaction degree. The method can provide not only for the passengers' overall satisfaction degree on the railway service quality, but also the passengers' satisfaction degree on some primary evaluation indicators. According to the evaluation results, we found interesting differences of perception of the service among the users

how drivers characteristics can affect driving style

Abstract Driving style concerns the way a driver chooses to drive, and depends on physical and emotional conditions of the driver while driving. In order to validate this hypothesis, we propose a Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) aimed to investigate on the relationship among driving style and drivers' characteristics such as somatic, behavioural and emotional conditions. Drivers' conditions include tiredness, sleepiness, sickness, gloom, worry, nervousness, boredom, and anger. In the proposed model, driving style is considered as an endogenous latent construct, while drivers' characteristics were considered as exogenous. Driving style is defined by means of a judgement expressed by the driver on a scale ranged from aggressive to cautious. In addition, a more reliable definition of the driving style is determined through an objective measure derived from cinematic parameters. We addressed to a sample of drivers a questionnaire aimed to collect information about their conditions while driving and the judgement about their driving style. Each driver registered the same path run in different days (more than thirty paths for each driver, in average), and complete the questionnaire for each path. This permits to observe the possible changes of drivers' driving style as a function of the different physical and emotional states that drivers present in different days