Overall, deriving from these results, this study provides evidence for the following: an increase in the inclusion of sustainable modes of transportation in Chile's infrastructure projects, and a slight decrease in the relative importance of private modes of transportation, compared to the past....
Since 1978, a policy of public transport deregulation has been applied in Chile, which has been extensively commented upon in several articles related to the topic. This experience, whose main errors consisted of misinterpreting deregulation as the absolute absence of market rules and pretending that...
Metrobus in Mexico City and Transantiago in Santiago, Chile, are two of the many mega-projects devised in the last decade in Latin American cities to improve and regulate public transportation. The operational and financial features of these transport interventions changes from one city to the other...
This article studies the purposes of public transport trips during the COVID-19 pandemic in Santiago, Chile. For this, a methodology is developed that estimates the purposes using as input the last origin-destination survey conducted, which provides information such as the purpose stated by the re...
Transportation Our work covers all modes of private and public transport, with a wide range of clients and partners, large and small. We use market and social research to improve understanding of travel behaviour, customer experience, attitudes towards new policies, new and existing infrastructure an...
It allows decision-makers to continue to ignore just how unsafe driving is (particularly for people who are not riding in vehicles). My biggest risk as a transit rider comes from crossing the street to get to the bus stop, not other riders. Transportation advocates need our narratives to mat...
On-demand systems have existed for a long time, both non-shared (traditional taxis) and shared (such as “colectivos” in Chile, or shared rickshaws in many developing countries); however, they now operate on much larger scales thanks to the new technologies, with companies such as Uber, ...
The public sector has turned to P3 (also known as PPP or PFI) to achieve a range of objectives, for example the simple transfer of commercial risk with a toll road, or the complex sharing of performance risks in a school P3. As an expert in the design, construction, finance, operation...
So below we’ve compiled public transportation prices in 80 of the most popular tourist cities all over the world. Since nearly every one of these systems is subsidized by the city, some of the prices are shockingly low, even on quite a few new-and-clean metro systems....
Walking, public transport, and intermediate public transport (IPT) are the primary modes of transport for women in developing countries. However, accessing these is not without barriers, particularly in the first- and last-mile stretches. Unreliable and unsafe public transport coupled with inferior ac...