The Troubled and Disjointed Sydney Transport System Pitted Against Boston, Massachusetts.
It is apparent that public transport systems that serve every destination and origin would be prone to low occupancies, low frequencies, high costs and, worst of all, high greenhouse emissions per commuter. One of the options available for such diverse patterns of travel is to offer custom services for the various markets in the travel niche. Some of the options include providing express trains and buses for commuters that need them at peak hours, regular bus service for local based trips; with buses plying busy corridors and para-transit car transport for low demand hours and routes. There is a flip side to this approach though; the more customized public transport becomes, the more it ignores its economic and environmental advantages (Stone, 2009).
The Boston and Sydney Transport Systems
Many Australians wonder why there cannot be a public transport system of the caliber seen in such countries as Germany and other German speaking countries in Europe. Unfortunately, it appears that few researchers have made effort to respond to such concerns. Available analyzed data shows that the current levels of usage of cars are not an inevitable outcome of the cultural, physical or social patterns of cities in Australia (Mees 2010b). It is possible to offer public transport of high quality with high levels of commutership and better economic outcomes. As from the start of the 80s a number of social outfits have expressed the constraints of...
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