We argue that prevailing technologies for bus fare payment and boarding rules make boarding and alighting time t - usually treated as an exogenous parameter - a relevant decision variable in the optimisation of bus services. We show that diminishing t reduces optimal bus frequency and increases...

A renewed interest in public transport analysis and development has triggered a debate among policy makers, practitioners and stakeholders regarding technologies, design, pricing, subsidies and contract forms for optimal policy, including social well-being and the financing of public transport...

Urban transit demand exhibits peaks in time and space, which can be efficiently served by means of different fleets, increasing frequencies in those groups of stops with larger passenger inflow. In this paper we develop a model that combines short turning and deadheading in an integrated...

The microeconomic approach to explain consumers’ behavior regarding the choice of activities, consumption of goods and use of time is extended in this paper by explicitly including the temporal dimension in the choice-making process. Recognizing that some activities, such as a job and...

En los últimos años, el tema de la responsabilidad social de la empresa (RSE) ha adquirido gran relevancia en el mundo entero y en particular en los países de América Latina y del Caribe. Esta publicación pretende enriquecer el debate sobre la RSE en América Latina y el Caribe y sirve para...

The progress from the last four years in solar energy resource assessment for Chile is reported, including measurements from a ground station network spanning from two to three years of data, and satellite estimations from the recently developed Chile-SR model including two full years of data....

En los últimos años, el tema de la responsabilidad social de la empresa (RSE) ha adquirido gran relevancia en el mundo entero y en particular en los países de América Latina y del Caribe. Esta publicación pretende enriquecer el debate sobre la RSE en América Latina y el Caribe y sirve para...

Within the context of transport cost functions, network variables have been traditionally used to calculate what is called economies of scale (RTS) as opposed to those of density (RTD). This paper argues that increasing network size is unambiguously associated with an increase in the number of...