by Ng Wai-Hung and Tong Chung-Yan = 吳偉鴻, 唐頌恩. / Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-187). / by Ng Wai-Hung and Tong Chung-Yan = Wu Weihong, Tang Song'en. / ACKNOWLEDGMENT --- p.ii / ABSTRACT --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.v / LIST OF APPENDICES --- p.vii / CHAPTER / Chapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter II. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.3 / Chapter III. --- LITERATURE REVIEW --- p.5 / Modes and Definitions --- p.5 / Motives and Objectives --- p.8 / The Issue Of Ownership --- p.12 / Objections --- p.15 / Case Study --- p.17 / British Airport Authority --- p.17 / The Albany County Airport --- p.23 / Los Angeles Airport --- p.25 / British Rail Privatization --- p.28 / Other Railway Privatization Examples in Europe --- p.35 / Railway Development and Operational Strategies in China --- p.37 / Privatization and Private Financing Examples in China --- p.45 / Private Financing Examples in Hong Kong - BOT --- p.52 / Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation --- p.55 / Hospital Authority --- p.60 / Critical Success Factors --- p.64 / Chapter IV. --- SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS --- p.66 / Airport Authority --- p.66 / Background --- p.66 / Economical --- p.68 / Corporate Culture --- p.68 / Corporate Structure --- p.69 / Decision Making Process --- p.70 / Human Resources Policy --- p.70 / Potential for Efficiency Gain - Benchmarking --- p.71 / Competition --- p.74 / Profit Potential --- p.77 / Funding --- p.78 / Social --- p.80 / Aircraft Operators --- p.80 / Retailers --- p.81 / Airport Users --- p.82 / Authority Staff --- p.82 / The Public --- p.83 / Political --- p.84 / Summary --- p.88 / The Mass Transit Railway Corporation --- p.90 / Background --- p.91 / Introduction --- p.91 / Corporate Objectives --- p.93 / Economical --- p.94 / Corporate Structure --- p.94 / Management and ownership --- p.94 / Operating Organization --- p.96 / Customer Satisfaction --- p.98 / Market Analysis --- p.99 / Market Competition --- p.104 / Financial Conditions --- p.107 / Operational Performance --- p.119 / Social --- p.121 / Fare Policy --- p.121 / Employee Compensation --- p.125 / Political --- p.127 / The Local Government --- p.127 / China's Influences --- p.128 / Summary --- p.131 / MTRC Operating Railway and the Lantau and Airport Railway --- p.131 / MTRC New Extensions --- p.135 / Conclusions --- p.136 / Chapter V. --- RECOMMENDATIONS --- p.138 / Airport Authority --- p.138 / Short-term --- p.138 / Long-term --- p.139 / The Mass Transit Railway Corporation --- p.142 / Short-Term --- p.142 / Long-Term --- p.142 / Contingency Plan --- p.147 / APPENDIX --- p.152 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.181

Os objetivos deste trabalho são dois: avaliar a percepção da sociedade e dos especialistas em transporte sobre os benefícios alcançados com a implantação de sistemas de transporte público urbano sobre trilhos e verificar se a percepção dos especialistas é alinhada com a percepção da sociedade. O trabalho foi desenvolvido a partir de uma pesquisa bibliográfica para identificação dos benefícios do transporte público sobre trilhos. Após definidos os benefícios foi aplicada uma pesquisa, de caráter exploratório, utilizando a escala de Likert, à sociedade, mais especificamente a alunos de graduação de cursos universitários na região metropolitana de São Paulo num total de 433 respondentes, distribuídos em 7 locais distintos. Em seguida foi realizada uma pesquisa junto a especialistas em transporte, com utilização de uma planilha para avaliação dos benefícios com base no Método de Análise Hierárquica - MAH. Na pesquisa com especialistas obteve-se 34 planilhas distribuídas em 4 grupos distintos. Os resultados mostram que a sociedade e os especialistas possuem uma percepção bastante positiva dos benefícios gerados pela implantação de sistemas de transporte público urbano sobre trilhos, havendo, no entanto, diferenças sensíveis nas avaliações, que refletem na ordem de importância dos benefícios. / The objectives of this work are, over all, two: evaluate the society´s and transportation specialists the perception on the benefits, reached with the implantation of urban public transport on tracks systems and to verify if the perception of the specialists is aligned up with the perception of the society. The work was developed from a bibliographical research that had the goal to identify the benefits of the public transport on tracks. After defined the benefits the research was applied to the society using the Likert´s scale, in exploratory way, more specifically the graduation´s pupils of university courses in the metropolitan region of São Paulo in a total of 433 respondents, distributed in seven distinct places. After that was carried through a research next to transportation´s specialists, with the resource of a spread sheet for evaluation of the benefits on the basis of the Analytic Hierarchical Process - AHP. About the research with specialists, one got 34 spread sheets distributed in four distinct groups. The results show that the society and the specialists possess a sufficiently positive perception about the benefits generated for the implantation of urban public transport on tracks systems, having, however, sensible differences in the evaluations, that they reflect in the order of the benefits importance.

Public transit is becoming an increasing important field of study to combat global issues such as traffic congestion and climate change. Accurate simulation of public transit is therefore likewise vital, as it is an important tool for understanding potential impacts of public transit policies. The research presented in this thesis describes the implementation of a multimodal, dynamic, agent-based supply-side simulation model of public transit implemented in the open-source platform MATSim for the city of Toronto. Transit schedule data was converted from Google Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) and map-matched to a region-wide road network to obtain a congestion-based multimodal assignment for transit. Volume-based results from the assignment showed under-prediction of subway volumes and slight over-prediction of bus volumes, but were generally comparable with static EMME/3 assignment for the same data. Travel time analysis indicated that further calibration of network specification is needed.

Public transit is becoming an increasing important field of study to combat global issues such as traffic congestion and climate change. Accurate simulation of public transit is therefore likewise vital, as it is an important tool for understanding potential impacts of public transit policies. The research presented in this thesis describes the implementation of a multimodal, dynamic, agent-based supply-side simulation model of public transit implemented in the open-source platform MATSim for the city of Toronto. Transit schedule data was converted from Google Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) and map-matched to a region-wide road network to obtain a congestion-based multimodal assignment for transit. Volume-based results from the assignment showed under-prediction of subway volumes and slight over-prediction of bus volumes, but were generally comparable with static EMME/3 assignment for the same data. Travel time analysis indicated that further calibration of network specification is needed.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 74-75).

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-156).

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 76-79).

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 151-156) Also available in print.

Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print.

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