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88<p><span class="underline">Rationale</span> Public Transport systems worldwide have much potential to address the urban mobility challenges of the 21st century.  However they face considerable technical challenges in managing ageing infrastructure and developing new systems within a context of changing technologies, markets, operations and planning and an environment of constrained financial resources.</p>
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92<p><span class="underline">Function</span>  World Transit Research (WTR) is a free repository of research papers, reports, research abstracts and links to research findings from leading research journals indexed and searchable to ensure easier access to topics of interest in public transport planning.    WTR is designed to make it easier for public transport planners worldwide to access quality research in the field.</p>
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100<p><span class="underline">Genesis</span>   WTR is developed by <a href="http://publictransportresearchgroup.info/our-team/staff/prof-graham-currie/" >Professor Graham Currie</a>, Professor of Public Transport at the <a href="http://www.eng.monash.edu.au/civil/research/centres/its/" >Institute of Transport Studies, Monash University</a>.  It is funded by through the research activities of Professor Currie and his team in the <a href="http://publictransportresearchgroup.info/" >Public Transport Research Group (PTRG)</a>.</p>
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