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The Key Role Of Quality Assessment In Public Transport Policy
This paper reviews assessment methods on transit quality, their application in stating the relationship with the demand for a certain service, and briefly the consequences in terms of transport policy of the process of transit quality assessment [...]
The parking of heavy goods vehicles in Singapore: The Vehicle Parking Certificate (VPC) scheme
This paper, from 1997, describes in detail a control scheme for the overnight parking of heavy goods vehicles, which was introduced in Singapore in 1995 [...]
The influence and impact of TfL’s traffic modelling guidance
This paper presents the latest Model Auditing Process (MAP) and Traffic Modelling Guidelines (TMG) which are provided for use by Transport for London (TfL). A revised MAP was released at Traffex in March 2011. The paperwill provide an overview [...]
Using probe vehicle data to generate jam warning messages
This paper focuses on what a driver experiences while driving in congested traffic flow and how this driving can improve traffic safety. A method for the reconstruction of spatiotemporal traffic dynamics from probe vehicle data is suggested and [...]
Decision sight distance review and evaluation
The paper reviews the decision sight distance (DSD) highway design practices in several countries and proposes a model that includes a braking component after the pre-manoeuvre process and prior to the manoeuvre operation. The manoeuvre time [...]
A simple method for estimating the optimal number of bike-and-ride places at public transport stations
Nearly everyone in China owns a bicycle and while car ownership in China is expanding rapidly, the bicycle remains the principal mode of transport for many people. The author argues that this presents China with a unique opportunity to resolve [...]
The Swiss conundrum - who causes congestion and who pays for it?
As the UK puts Lorry Road User Charging back on the agenda, Peter Cerwenka and Olaf Meyer-Rühle revisit the Swiss HGV charging system, which treats congestion time costs as external costs, a concept which has been challenged in the courts by the [...]
An overheight-vehicle detector system
How an overheight-vehicle dectector system is helping with the monitoring of high vehicles to avoid crashes into bridges and other infrastructure.
Tactile markings for the guidance of blind pedestrians on facilities shared with cyclists
This paper describes work done at the Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)to develop tactile amrkings which will enable blind and partially-sighted pedestrians to locate themselves on the correct side of shared pedestrian and cycle routes [...]
A pricing system that could be used to benefit drivers and their societies.
Currently, drivers use their road networks inefficiently, because their trip choices do not minimise the totals of the various costs that their journeys impose on others. Hence, the need for this now feasible driver-guide-pay (DGP) system to [...]

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