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Urban Mass Passenger Transport

Summary

Characterize signs of urban mass passenger transport, vehicles and infrastructure of urban public transport. Transport and traffic characteristics, outputs and utilization indicators of urban public transport. Problems of dispatching control, creation of graphic timetables, timetables and traffic network of urban public transport. Definition quality and urban public transport quality evaluation. Costs, incomes, operational and economics selection criteria for urban public transport vehicles, fare systems in urban mass passenger transport.

Literature

VUCHIC, V.R.: Urban Transit, operations, planning and economics. John Willey&Sons, Inc., 2005, ISBN 0-471-63265-1

Advised literature

GIFFORD, J.: Flexible Urban Transportation, ISBN: 0-08-044053-3 .
Kenneth Button: Recent Developments in Transport Economics., Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003.


Language of instruction čeština, čeština
Code 342-0314
Abbreviation MHD
Course title Urban Mass Passenger Transport
Coordinating department Institute of Transport
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Ivana Olivková, Ph.D.