Possible impacts of ICT based demand-responsive public transportation schemes in the Free State

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dc.contributor.author Bashingi, N. en
dc.contributor.author Mostafa Hassan, M. en
dc.date.accessioned 2016-11-14T07:01:00Z
dc.date.available 2016-11-14T07:01:00Z
dc.date.issued 2016 en
dc.description Paper presented at the 35th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 4-7 July 2016 "Transport ? a catalyst for socio-economic growth and development opportunities to improve quality of life", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. en
dc.description.abstract Reliability and accessibility of public transportation are major concerns. ICT based demand responsive schemes can be the ultimate solution to these problems. Even though Demand Responsive Transportation solutions have always been conventional for cabs to meet individual traveller?s needs, they have not been used for buses and mini-bus taxis in the Free State. Therefore, they can be considered to provide reliable and flexible transportation to meet the public?s momentary transportation needs at affordable rates using taxis and buses. Current accessibility problems like long walking distance to bus stops and long waiting times can be solved using demand responsive schemes and cheaper demand based minibus taxi or bus services would reduce the use of expensive cabs. This would reduce public transportation reliability, accessibility, affordability and efficiency problems, but might not have the same impact on operators and public transportation users. The benefits they might have on public transportation users could lead to immediate or long-term consequences for the operators. This paper aims at evaluating the possible impacts of using ICT based technologies and applications for demand responsive public transportation in the Free State province and how they may impact public transportation operators and users in terms of dead mileage, travel times, intensity of demand in different areas and acceptance of these schemes by the public and operators. en
dc.description.sponsorship The Minister of Transport, South Africa en
dc.description.sponsorship Transportation Research Board of the USA en
dc.format.extent 10 Pages en
dc.format.medium PDF en
dc.identifier.citation Bashingi, N & Mostafa Hassan, M 2016, "Possible impacts of ICT based demand-responsive public transportation schemes in the Free State", Paper presented at the 35th Annual Southern African Transport Conference 4-7 July 2016 "Transport ? a catalyst for socio-economic growth and development opportunities to improve quality of life", CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa. en
dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-920017-64-4 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/57957
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher Southern African Transport Conference en
dc.rights Southern African Transport Conference en
dc.subject Demand Responsive Transportation en
dc.subject ICT en
dc.subject Public transportation en
dc.subject.lcsh Transportation en
dc.subject.lcsh Transportation -- Africa en
dc.subject.lcsh Transportation -- Southern Africa en
dc.title Possible impacts of ICT based demand-responsive public transportation schemes in the Free State en
dc.type Presentation en


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