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TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2394 consists of 16 papers that explore travel time and space mean speed of nonmotorized vehicles; a review of India’s national urban investment program; assessment of public–private partnership in traveler information provision; low-mass urban microcars; transition Beijing, China to a transit city; and lessons of bus rapid transit from nine cities in China. This issue of the TRR also examines vehicle ownership behavior of Indian households; travel and car ownership of residents near new suburban metro stations in Shanghai, China; modeling pedestrian delay and level of service; taxicab transportation in Bogotá, Colombia; transportation demand in Shanghai, China; bus rapid transit and metro systems in Mexico City, Mexico; comparison of joint mode and destination choice in Jakarta, Indonesia; car ownership in Bogotá, Colombia; private bus operators’ willingness to participate in transit improvements in Mexico; aspects to consider for household travel surveys in developing countries.."--pub. desc.