Lisbet Berg, Dag Slettemeås, Ingrid Kjørstad, Thea Grav Rosenberg
Abstract This paper addresses peer‐to‐peer (P2P) digital platform markets, often associated with the “sharing economy” or the “collaborative economy”. Such digital platforms, facilitating new purchasing channels for consumers by matching P2P supply and demand, can be considered new market places cha...
Selim Jahangir, Ajay Bailey, Md. Musleh Uddin Hasan, Shanawez Hossain
• Unequal access to public transportation affects the mobility of vulnerable groups. • Motorised private vehicles are increasing dramatically. • Inadequate and non-inclusive transport systems reduced accessibility of essential services. • Structural plans and policies failed to address the needs of ...
Abdus Salam Azad, Monirul Islam, Saikat Chakraborty
The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a widely studied combinatorial optimization problem. We introduce a variant of the multidepot and periodic VRP (MDPVRP) and propose a heuristic initialized stochastic memetic algorithm to solve it. The main challenge in designing such an algorithm for a large com...
Maruf Hossain, Yusak O. Susilo
With primary data collected from rickshaw users in Dhaka, Bangladesh, this paper explores patterns of rickshaw use and the possible social impacts that may occur if rickshaws were banned from Dhaka. A survey of 450 rickshaw users from six different locations in Dhaka was carried out, and descriptive...
Nuren Abedin, Md Mahmudur Rahman, Muhammad Ismail Hossain, Kenji Hisazumi et al.
Corporate employees like to save the time they spend commuting to work. However, public transport in many emerging cities is not scheduled. Only big enterprises can afford scheduled staff buses. Rideshare services (e.g., Uber, Lyft, Pathao) can be a good alternative but are not affordable for every ...
Md. Raju Ahmed, Ashish Kumar Karmaker
Electric Vehicles (EV) are adding new dimension in the transportation sector as well as consuming huge electric power. Although, it becomes very popular due to numerous benefits such as- limits fossil fuel consumption, increases the environmental sustainability through low GHG emission, less sound p...
Zhenjun Zhu, Xiucheng Guo, Jun Zeng, Shengrui Zhang
As an important part of urban public transportation systems, the feeder bus fills a service gap left by rail transit, effectively extending the range of rail transit’s service and solving the problem of short‐distance travel and interchanges. By defining the potential demand of feeder bus services a...
Donald Katz, Md Mizanur Rahman
Overcrowded buses are a common sight in Dhaka, Bangladesh, as they swerve between rickshaws and auto-rickshaws and blare their horns, with the next stop announced by a shout. Two primary bus services operate in the city, ticketed and local, differing in fare collection, stop patterns, and price. The...
Muhammad Rabiu Abdullahi, Qing-Chang Lu, A. Hussain, Sajib Tripura et al.
The strategic deployment of EV (EV) charging stations is crucial for promoting sustainable transportation and facilitating the widespread adoption of EVs. However, the lack of readily accessible charging station continues to be a significant barrier to the mainstream adoption of EVs. This study pres...
Selim Ahmed, Musfiq Mannan Choudhury, Ezaz Ahmed, Ujjal Yaman Chowdhury et al.
Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the passengers' perception of app or application-based ride-sharing service in Bangladesh. The research directly measures the passengers' perception of perceived quality and value for money of using app-based ride-sharing services in Bangladesh and...
Brian Kallehauge, Jesper Larsen, Oli B.G. Madsen, Marius M. Solomon
Suman K. Mitra, Jean‐Daniel Saphores
Feng Qiu, Wenquan Li, Ali Haghani
Farzana Rahman
In developing countries paratransit plays a vital role as a public transport mode since mass transit system is inadequate. This research investigates low-income working womens satisfaction level on various service features of paratransit modes based on their experience. Structural Equation Model (SE...
Muhammad Ali Nayeem, Md. Monirul Islam, Xin Yao
In many cities around the world, private vehicles are increasingly causing severe traffic congestion, pollution, and accidents. Public transports have been widely recognized as an effective way to improve urban life. To dissuade citizens from using private vehicles, it is necessary to design a pract...