This paper demonstrates a bottom-up approach for developing urban transport strategies taking a case study of the city of Caracas, Venezuela. The strategies are proposed with respect to; solving the existing transportation problems, achievement of set goals for the city and minimization of negative impacts of transportation.

In this paper an attempt is made to study the profile of the bus operations in India with special emphasis on State Transport Undertakings. There is a need to review the regulatory aspects to promote the public transport sector.

This paper measures the relative performance of twenty depots of Haryana State Road Transport (HSRT) for the year 2006-07 using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). This study identifies the relatively efficient and inefficient depots, sets benchmarks for the relative inefficient depots and suggests alternative actions that would make inefficient depots improve their efficiency.

Public transport service should live up to certain acceptable standards of quality, comfort and safety before it could gain public patronage. There are of course costs involved, but the people and their quality of life must come first if we destroy public transport we shall be condemned to re-invent it-but at a huge price in terms of environmental degradation, loss of time, traffic jams and the denial of the joys of urban living.

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