Some reading and print references

This list has to be considered as partial and indeed misses out on the many good non-English languages sources that have been cared out on our subject. But we have to start somewhere. We list these for now in the order in which they originally appeared to make their contributions to this new field. Note that after about 1980, most references to "paratransit" increasingly refer to what is sometimes called "handicapped transport", in particular in the US and Canada.

1. Para-transit: Neglected options for urban mobility, Ronald F. Kirby, Kiran U. Bhatt, Michael A. Kemp, Robert G. McGillvray, Martin Wohl, Urban Institute, Washington DC, 1974

2. Paratransit: Survey of International Experience and Prospects, Britton et al. EcoPlan International. U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1975

3. Role of Para-transit in Serving the Needs of Special Groups, Crain, J., Special Report 164, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C. (1975)

4. Small city para-transit innovations, Connie A Garber Dept. of City and Regional Planning, University of North Carolina. (1976)

5. Demand responsive transportation planning guidelines, Cady C Chung Mitre Corporation, Reston VA. 1976

6. A selected bibliography on para-transit alternatives, (Research report - Institute for Urban Studies and Community Service, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) by Robert J Omasta, 1976

7. Paratransit: an assessment of past experience and planning methods for the future, by Mary Gallery, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, 1979

8. Paratransit: Changing perceptions of public transport : proceedings of a workshop held in Mount Gambier, 20-23 February 1979. Australian Government Pub. Service, 1980.

9. Paratransit in Developing Countries. In "Transportation and Development around the Pacific". Grava, Sigurd. New York: American Society of Civil Engineers. 1980

10. Jitneys: A complement to public transportation, Carlos R Bonilla, Transportation Center, University of Tennessee. 1981

11. The Role of Paratransit in Southeast Asian Cities , Peter J. Rimmer, M.A., Ph.D. , Australian National University, 1982

12. GSM paratransit vehicle tests, M Smith. Transportation Development Centre, Cambridge, Mass. 1983

13. Taxi-based paratransit technology/operations packages in Europe, Francis E. K Britton, Technology Sharing Program, Office of the Secretary of Transportation, Washington DC, 1985

14. Urban Transit: The Private Challenge to Public Transportation, Charles A. Lave. Pacific Research Inst, Los Angeles. 1985

15. Technology and Business Opportunities in the Taxi Industry: An International Survey, Francis E. K. Britton. EcoPlan International, Paris. 1987

16. Assessment of computer dispatch technology in the paratransit industry, John R Stone, Technology Sharing Program, U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 1992

17. Paratransit in southeast Asia: A market response to poor roads?, Robert Cervero, University of California Transportation Center, Los Angeles. 1992.

18. TaxiCom '95: International Survey of Leading Innovational Taxi Communications and operations Approaches. Britton, Rozen, Murga, et al. Federal Transit Administration, Dept of Transportation, Washington, DC, 1995.

19. A Handbook for Acquiring Demand-Responsive Transit Software, TRB, Washington DC. 1996

20. Physical characteristics of paratransit in developing countries of Asia : Transportation in Asia-Pacific countries. Shimazaki T., Rahman M. Journal of advanced transportation ISSN 0197-6729 , 1996

21. Paratransit in America: Redefining Mass Transportation , Robert Cervero, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1997

22. Evaluation of automated vehicle location technologies for paratransit in small and medium-size urban areas, Gary S Spring, Transportation Research Board, Washington DC, 1997

23. ADA Paratransit Eligibility Certification Practices: A Synthesis of Transit Practice, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Richard Weiner, Crain & Associates, 1998

24. The Transit Metropolis: A Global Inquiry by Robert Cervero Island Press; 1 edition (October 1, 1998)

25. Contracting for Bus and Demand-Responsive Transit Services: A Survey of U.S. Practice and Experience, National Research Council , Washington DC. 2001

26. Flexible Urban Transportation, by Jonathan L Gifford, Pergamon Press, 2003

27. Intermode : Innovations in Demand Responsive Transport, Department for Transport, London, UK (PDF 1675 Kb) August 2004.

28. Intermode : Innovations in Demand Responsive Transport, Summary html, Sept. 2005.

29. Guidebook for Measuring, Assessing, and Improving Performance of Demand-Response Transportation, sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration in cooperation with the Transit Development Corporation, TRB, Washington DC, USA, 2008.

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Useful web site references

• New Mobility Knowledge Environment

• VTPI on ridesharing

• World Carshare Consortium

• World City Bike Collaborative

• World City Bike Collaborative

• xTransit - The Third Way of Getting Around in Cities

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Wikipedia references

Wikipedia perhaps, but these references by and large provide pretty solid introductions for first reference and updating purposes. And for anyone who really wishes to start to dig into this topic a good place to start your visit.

xTransit modes:

• Bike sharing, Community bicycle programs

• Carpool

• Carsharing

• DRT - Dynamic ridesharing

• DRT - Demand_responsive_transit

• Hail & Ride

• Hire vehicles

• Hitchhiking

• Paratranist

• Public light bus

• Shared Transport

• Share Taxi

• Taxi

• Vanpool

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Support technologies:

• Dispatching (logistics)

• Computer assisted dispatch

• Fleet management

• Telematics

• Automatic vehicle location

• GPS

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Public policy interface:

• New_Mobility_Agenda

• High-occupancy vehicles

• HOV lanes

• Sustainable Transport

• Transportation Demand Management

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Google references

• Paratranist, xTransit, Smart Paratransit, DRT

• Ridesharing

• Shared Taxi/bus/transit

• Community, Free buses

• Taxi Dispatching Systems

• Computer-Aided Systems

• DRT/Transportation/Transit/Taxi

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Google tools

Google Ride Finder

Google Transit

Google Transit Developers

Dynamic Ride Sharing

Google Maps

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Searching more references

You may want to give a shot at trying out this directed search engine which we are developing in the context of our on-going New Mobility Knowledge Environment collaborative project. Thus far it points to going on one hundred identified programs and databases which are active in areas close to our overall program interests. We find it a powerful and useful tool and hope that you will find some use in it as well. You will find that the usual use of keywords and standard reference protocols work just fine. (Tell us what you think of this tool, and share your ideas and criticisms with us. Let's make it better.)

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