Transportation demand managementPurpose - Services provided by urban public road passenger transport companies in Portugal are associated with widely differing economic and financial outcomes. The objective of this paper is to characterize these differences and discuss the potential contribution offered by ...
Eleven of these individuals were not nasal carriers of MRSA and all but one had travelled by public transportation, namely by bus, prior to sampling. In conclusion, public buses in two major cities in Portugal are often contaminated with MRSA representing clones dominant in hospitals in the ...
This paper presents an analysis of regularity in public transport usage based on a large-scale bus transportation data of Lisbon, Portugal. By exploring the combined information from the bus boarding history of riders and bus arrivals at each bus stop, an analysis of individual bus usage was per...
Lagoa, Portugal Destination Expert for Carvoeiro 7,327 posts 56 helpful votes 2. Re: Public transport 1 year ago Save Not so easy from carvoeiro. No train station, limited buses. To go anywhere by bus you have to go to lagoa and change. Nearest train station is at estombar...
BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Public transport in Portugal has come to a virtual standstill. Two main unions have mounted a one-day strike. Workers are furious with austerity measures, which they say have resulted in record unemployment and the worst economic slump since the 1970s. ...
The transport sector accounts for around one-quarter of the GHG emissions in Europe, and, in Portugal, it represents almost one-third of the total emissions to the atmosphere. Unfortunately, these emissions have increased in recent years. Hence, cities and countries need plans to decarbonize the...
Another study has been conducted in Portugal by Castel-Branco et al. [3]. It has presented a suggested method to find the most efficient hybrid powertrain that could produce less emissions and less energy consumption as an alternative to a conventional taxi fleet in Lisbon, Portugal. It has ...
Public transport companies are facing problems in assuring an acceptable level of transport supply in off-peak hours and/or in sparsely populated areas. In both cases the demand for transportation is weak and not concentrated and the level of public transport supply is as a result low. In the...
Flixbus company connects Madrid airport with cities in Portugal (Lisbon, Porto, Sintra, among others) and France (Bordeaux, Poitiers and Paris). Departures from the Bus Terminal, next to module F of Parking P4 (terminal T4). Buy a ticket. The Avanzabus company operates direct one-way, round...
Research in public transportation systems assume that users apply some utility function to their decision to choose this transport mode [18,19]. Consequently, we build our framework based on this starting premise: transport trips describe trajectories close to the shortest path. 2.2. Trip Index Our...