Annotated Bibliography

Chao, Meng-Che, Wen-Hsiu Huang, Rong-Chang Jou. 2015. The asymmetric effects of
gasoline prices on public transportation use in Taiwan. Transportation Research Part D:
Transport and Environment 41, (December): 75-87.
This paper examines the asymmetric effects of gasoline prices on public transit, and the positive
impact gas prices have on buses and rapid transit. Im going to use this paper to show the
relationship between gas and oil prices and public transportation.
Damart, Sebastien, Bernard Roy. 2009. The use of costbenefit analysis in public transportation
decision-making in France. Transport Policy 16, no.4 (August): 200-212.
This paper covers all the different ways to calculate the cost difference for public transit. I will
use this article to show the most cost proficient public transportation.
Miller, Patrick, Alexandre G. de Barros, Lina Kattan, S.C. Wirasinghe. Analyzing the
sustainability performance of public transit. Transportation Research Part D: Transport
and Environment 44, (May): 177-198.
Review of current practices transport system sustainability performance analysis and provides a
composite indicator framework to analyze public transit sustainability. This paper uses a
framework to show how public transportation is becoming sustainable.
Murraya, Alan T., Rex Davisb, Robert J. Stimsonc, Luis Ferreirad. 1998. Public Transportation
Access. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 3, no. 5
(September): 319-328.
This paper has discussed methods for evaluating public transport access. It also discusses the
necessity of public transit for achieving sustainability and also discusses methods for increasing
the access to public transportation.
Stepp, Erin. 2017. Posts Tagged driving cost per mile. AAA NewsRoom, August 23, 2017.
http://newsroom.aaa.com/tag/driving-cost-per-mile/
This article on the AAA website has a table displaying the average annual cost of owning
different types of vehicles (Ex. Truck, SUV, Sudan, ect.). I will use this to compare the cost of
public transportation to owning a personal vehicle.