Essays on Transportation

Introduction The international commercial aviation sector is volatile, with average net profitability in the decade to 2013 just 0.1% (O’Connell & Warnock-Smith, 2013). Over the past 20 years, the landscape of commercial aviation has transformed. With the current price of fuel low and passenger demand…

The first experiments in the direction of exploring the possibilities of using the functions of autonomous driving were already in the 1920s. Of course, in those days it was more the fiction of science fiction writers, and given that our contemporaries have a very vague…

A table of prizes, precious wood furniture or an antique vase do not move like a couch or a cookware. Valuables require special packaging and must be accompanied by documents that ensure you in case of problems. Anticipate the Moving Whether paintings , sculptures or…

PRESENT SCENARIO Till now we were talking about past scenario,but what past will do? It give us lesson to improve from the past and make our system better day by day, talking about the present scenario I must be covering about the incidents taken place…

Ofo Bike is a private brand was founded in 2014. It is based in Beijing, China, and is now known as the world’s first and largest station-free bike sharing platform. The name and logo of the company symbolizes the shape of a bike and is…

Impact on long range planning models Connected vehicle technology will have a profound impact on the long range planning and land-use models used today. It will provide planners with a greater insight into each step than ever before leading possibly to more precise models and…

INTRODUCTION The city of Richmond has a population of 204,214 as of the 2010 census and is currently estimated to have 227,032 persons (United States Census Bureau, 2017). It is the fourth most populated city in Virginia and the Richmond metropolitan area has a population…

Uber is a transportation company which is currently among the dominating companies offering this kind of service. This paper’s objective is to examine the reasons as to why this company has been displaying the great performances in the market for their services. The Uber app…

Intermodality Intermodal transport is defined as the “shipment of cargo and the movement of people involving more than one mode of transportation during a single, seamless journey”. While this concept was expected to be the solution to the many challenges but Agbo and Zhang (2017)…

Tavasszy, Behdani & Konings (2015) explored what would be the main system changes that would create a framework that would allow the deployment of synchromodality. The challenges have been categorised in four layers, the so-called enablers: Transactions Governance arrangements Institutions Culture Transaction enablers – contracts…