{"title":"IN FROM THE COLD","authors":"S. Bogren","doi":"10.1108/02580540810854695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1108/02580540810854695","url":null,"abstract":"Wind River Transit Authority is headquartered in Riverton, Wyoming, and serves all of Fremont County, a county that stretches across more than 9,000 square miles and has a population of only 35,000. The dispersed population creates great distances for transit trips in this part of the country where winters often are severe. The article looks at how Wind River Transit was able to fill one dire need: through assistance from the Community Transportation Development Fund, a permanent home was built to house, maintain and launch vehicles and to establish the transit its place in the community.","PeriodicalId":162441,"journal":{"name":"Community Transportation","volume":"209 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115157589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Congestion Pricing: What is It?","authors":"M. Benkõ, Lauren Smith","doi":"10.4337/9781843765493.00014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4337/9781843765493.00014","url":null,"abstract":"This article explains the costs and benefits of congestion pricing, which is a concept that charges motorists for using certain stretches of highway or bridges, or entering a particular area of a city. The strategy is designed to encourage motorists to not travel during peak traffic periods, to avoid congested roadways, or to use public transit. Numerous benefits are available, such as a reduction of total peak-period congestion, to providing a variety of transportation choices, to reducing accidents as well as pollution. Three types of pricing systems are described: variable tolls, lane charging tolls, or cordon tolls. The article includes a brief description of congestion pricing programs in London, Stockholm, and Singapore.","PeriodicalId":162441,"journal":{"name":"Community Transportation","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127870323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GOING TO WORK","authors":"C. Jeskey, B. Wilson, S. Bogren","doi":"10.1596/978-0-8213-6541-0_ch4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1596/978-0-8213-6541-0_ch4","url":null,"abstract":"From the smallest rural communities to the largest cities, every day millions of Americans leave to go to work. An estimated 97% of all workers must leave their homes to go to their job sites. Last year, more than 50% of all public and community transportation trips were work related with the commuter rail service being the most frequently used. Even though demand responsive service had the lowest number of employment trips, its overall percentage was still almost 20%. Last year in dozens of cities across the United States more than 20% of people made their employment trip everyday aboard public and community transportation while in rural America journeys to work and job training accounted for 40% of all trips. The purpose of this article is to look at actual people in the vehicles on their way to work and to try to assess the real economic impact of having mobility services available to make these connections. Offered are eight case studies of employment transportation and the partnerships that make employment trips possible.","PeriodicalId":162441,"journal":{"name":"Community Transportation","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126429888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}