Submissions from 2015
Visioning the Bus System of the Future: Stakeholders’ Perspective, Antonio Musso and Maria Vittoria Corazza
Modeling Transit Passenger Choices of Access Stop, Neema Nassir, Mark Hickman, Ali Malekzadeh, and Elnaz Irannezhad
A Worldwide State-of-the-Art Analysis for Bus Rapid Transit: Looking for the Success Formula, Alexandros Nikitas and MariAnne Karlsson
Disruption management in public transit: the bee colony optimization approach, Miloš Nikolić, Dušan Teodorović, and Katarina Vukadinović
Changes in Transit Use and Service and Associated Changes in Driving Near a New Light Rail Transit Line, Hilary Nixon, Marlon Boarnet, Doug Houston, Steven Spears, and Jeongwoo Lee
Level-Based Approach to Public Transport Network Planning, Hermann Orth, Andrew Nash, and Ulrich Weidmann
Economic Viability of Bus Bridging Reserves for Fast Response to Unplanned Passenger Rail Disruption, Brendan Pender, Graham Currie, Nirajan Shiwakoti, and Alexa Delbosc
Quantifying the effects of driver non-compliance and communication system failure in the performance of real-time bus control strategies, William Phillips, Andrés del Rio, Juan Carlos Muñoz, Felipe Delgado, and Ricardo Giesen
Metro service disruptions: how do people choose to travel?, Anastasia M. Pnevmatikou, Matthew G. Karlaftis, and Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou
Reshaping the Region: Transit Proximity and Leverage in Metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts, Stephanie Pollack, Anna Gartsman, Timothy Reardon, and Meghna Hari
Sustainable urban transit network design, Moschoula Pternea, Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou, and Matthew G. Karlaftis
Locating fixed roadside units in a bus transport network for maximum communications probability, Miguel Rios, Vladimir Marianov, and Melisa Pérez
Inclusion of quality criteria in public bus service contracts in metropolitan areas, Marta Rojo, Luigi dell’Olio, Hernán Gonzalo-Orden, and Ángel Ibeas
Method for Assessing Bus Delay in Mixed Traffic to Identify Transit Priority Improvement Locations in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jeffrey L. Rosenblum, Duncan W. Allen, Tegin L. Bennett, Ritesh K. Warade, and Cleo M. Stoughton
Commuting to college: The effectiveness and social efficiency of transportation demand management policies, Lucia Rotaris and Romeo Danielis
Improving Transportation Network Efficiency Through Implementation of Transit-Supportive Roadway Strategies, Paul Ryus, Kelly Laustsen, Kelly Blume, Kevin Lee, Scott Beaird, Eric Lindstrom, Jon Crisafi, Zachary Bugg, Alex Skabardonis, and Susan Langdon
Greenhouse Gas Impact of Ridership on Sheppard Subway Line, Toronto, Canada, Shoshanna Saxe, Heather Cruickshank, and Eric Miller
Planning guidelines for metro–bus interchanges by means of a pedestrian microsimulation model, Sebastián Seriani and Rodrigo Fernández
Measuring Passenger Loyalty to Public Transport Modes, Yoram Shiftan, Yotam Barlach, and Daniel Shefer
Travel Patterns of Urban Linear Ferry Passengers: Analysis of Smart Card Fare Data for Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Ali Soltani, Michael Tanko, Matthew I. Burke, and Reza Farid
Development of PN emission factors for the real world urban driving conditions of a hybrid city bus, Seref Soylu
Eco-driving training of professional bus drivers – Does it work?, Mark J.M. Sullman, Lisa Dorn, and Pirita Niemi
A zonal inference model based on observed smart-card transactions for Santiago de Chile, Sebastián Tamblay, Patricia Galilea, Paula Iglesias, Sebastián Raveau, and Juan Carlos Muñoz
Public transportation objectives and rider demographics: are transit’s priorities poor public policy?, Brian D. Taylor and Eric A. Morris
Walking Access to Transit Stations: Evaluating Barriers with Stated Preference, Nebiyou Tilahun and Moyin Li
Impact of public transport and non-motorized transport infrastructure on travel mode shares, energy, emissions and safety: Case of Indian cities, Geetam Tiwari, Deepty Jain, and Kalaga Ramachandra Rao
A National Training and Certification Program for Transit Vehicle Maintenance Instructors, Transportation Learning Center and Educational Data Systems, Inc
Exploring Multiplier Effects Generated by Bus Lane Combinations, Long Tien Truong, Majid Sarvi, and Graham Currie
Urban household travel behavior in a time of economic crisis: Changes in trip making and transit importance, Gudmundur F. Ulfarsson, Anne Steinbrenner, Trausti Valsson, and Sungyop Kim
Optimal bus service patterns and frequencies considering transfer demand elasticity with genetic algorithm, Yavuz Y. Ulusoy and Steven I-Jy Chien
Short-Term Prediction of Ridership on Public Transport with Smart Card Data, Niels van Oort, Ties Brands, and Erik de Romph
Stretching resources: sensitivity of optimal bus frequency allocation to stop-level demand elasticities, İ. Ömer Verbas, Charlotte Frei, Hani S. Mahmassani, and Raymond Chan
Exploring trade-offs in frequency allocation in a transit network using bus route patterns: Methodology and application to large-scale urban systems, İ. Ömer Verbas and Hani S. Mahmassani
Can propulsion and fuel diversity for the bus fleet achieve the win–win strategy of energy conservation and environmental protection?, Renjie Wang, Ye Wu, Wenwei Ke, Shaojun Zhang, Boya Zhou, and Jiming Hao
Evaluation of the Safe Routes to Transit Program in California, David Weinzimmer, Rebecca L. Sanders, Heidi Dittrich, and Jill F. Cooper
Evolving Connection of Transit, Agglomeration, and Growth of High-Technology Business Clusters, Glen Weisbrod, Chandler Duncan, and Susan Jones Moses
A stochastic optimization model for transit network timetable design to mitigate the randomness of traveling time by adding slack time, Yinghui Wu, Jiafu Tang, Yang Yu, and Zhendong Pan
Transit accessibility measures incorporating the temporal dimension, Wangtu (Ato) Xu, Yanjie Ding, Jiangping Zhou, and Yuan Li
Metro commuters’ satisfaction in multi-type access and egress transferring groups, Min Yang, Jingyao Zhao, Wei Wang, Zhiyuan Liu, and Zhibin Li
Identification of transit farebox data errors: impacts on transit planning, Shu Yang, Yao-Jan Wu, Bernadette Marion, and Isaac E. Moses
Evaluation of exclusive bus lanes in a bi-modal degradable road network, Jia Yao, Feng Shi, Shi An, and Jian Wang
A bi-level programming for bus lane network design, Bin Yu, Lu Kong, Yao Sun, Baozhen Yao, and Ziyou Gao
Demand-responsive transit circulator service network design, Yao Yu, Randy B. Machemehl, and Chi Xie
Development of Application for Estimating Daily Boarding and Alighting Counts on New York City Buses: Implementation of Daily Production System, Qifeng Zeng, Alla Reddy, Alex Lu, and Brian Levine
Submissions from 2014
DISCON: Public Transport Dispatching Robust Control, Andrzej Adamski
A simulation of transit bus emissions along an urban corridor: Evaluating changes under various service improvement strategies, Ahsan Alam, Ehab Diab, Ahmed M. El-Geneidy, and Marianne Hatzopoulou
Investigating the isolated and combined effects of congestion, roadway grade, passenger load, and alternative fuels on transit bus emissions, Ahsan Alam and Marianne Hatzopoulou
Designing large-scale bus network with seasonal variations of demand, S M Mahdi Amiripour, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, and Afshin Shariat Mohaymany
Hybrid Method for Bus Network Design with High Seasonal Demand Variation, S M Mahdi Amiripour, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, and Afshin Shariat Mohaymany
Measuring Route-Level Passenger Perceived Transit Service Reliability with an Agent - Based Simulation Approach, Jian An, Yue Liu, and Xiaoguang Yang
Influence of weather conditions on transit ridership: A statistical study using data from Smartcards, P. Arana, S. Cabezudo, and M. Peñalba
Competitive transit network design in cities with radial street patterns, Hugo Badia, Miquel Estrada, and Francesc Robusté
Fare evasion in proof-of-payment transit systems: Deriving the optimum inspection level, Benedetto Barabino, Sara Salis, and Bruno Useli
OneBusAway Multi-Region – Rapidly Expanding Mobile Transit Apps to New Cities, Sean J. Barbeau, Alan Borning, and Kari Watkins
Friday Exception Scheduling in Transit Systems: An Exploratory Analysis When Data Are Limited, Michael D. Benson and Robert B. Noland
An experiment evaluating the impacts of real-time transit information on bus riders in Tampa, Florida, Candace Brakewood, Sean Barbeau, and Kari Watkins
Unbanked Transit Riders and Open Payment Fare Collection, Candace Brakewood and George Kocur
Testing Individuals’ Ability to Compare Emissions from Public Transport and Driving Trips, William Brazil and Brian Caulfield
High-Load Transit Line Passenger Transmission and Productiveness Efficiencies, Jonathan M. Bunker
Passengers' Perception of and Behavioral Adaptation to Unreliability in Public Transportation, Andre Carrel, Anne Halvorsen, and Joan L. Walker
An Emission Model to Compare Bus and Tramway Transport, S. Carrese, A. Gemma, and S. La Spada
Regularity-driven bus operation: Principles, implementation and business models, Oded Cats
Transfer Synchronization of Public Transport Networks, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, Yuval Hadas, Michael McIvor, and Albert Ang
Detecting and improving public-transit connectivity with case studies of two world sport events, Avishai (Avi) Ceder and Supun Perera
Where to park? A behavioural comparison of bus Park and Ride and city centre car park usage in Bath, UK, William Clayton, Eran Ben-Elia, Graham Parkhurst, and Miriam Ricci
Buses with High Level of Service in Nantes, France: Characteristics and Results of the BusWay Compared with Light Rail Transit, Emilio Conles, Margarita Novales, Alfonso Orro, and Javier Anta
Exhaust emissions of transit buses: Brazil and India case studies, Erin Cooper, Magdala Arioli, Aileen Carrigan, and Luis Antonio Lindau
Performance, profit and consumer sovereignty in the English deregulated bus market, Jonathan Cowie
How Close Is Close Enough?, Ben Cummins, Greg Spitz, Tara P. O'Malley, and Margaret Campbell
Efficient Usage of Transfer based System in Intracity Bus Transit Operation: Sample of Izmir, Alper Deri and Aylin Kalpakci
Transitory Optimism: Changes in Passenger Perception Following Bus Service Improvement over Time, Ehab I. Diab and Ahmed M. El-Geneidy
Evaluating Private Bus Operators' Willingness to Participate in Transit Improvements in Mexico, Abel Lopez Dodero, Jeffrey M. Casello, Angel R. Molinero Molinero, and Daniel Vazquez Cotera
Coordinating Public Transport, John Doyle
Service Coverage Factors Affecting Bus Transit System Availability, Laura Eboli, Carmen Forciniti, and Gabriella Mazzulla
Investigating the heterogeneity of bus users' preferences through discrete choice modelling, Laura Eboli and Gabriella Mazzulla
Measuring the Effects of Economic Crisis on Users' Perceptions of Public Transport Quality, Dimitrios Efthymiou, Michail Kaziales, Constantinos Antoniou, and Yannis Tyrinopoulos
New evidence on walking distances to transit stops: identifying redundancies and gaps using variable service areas, Ahmed El-Geneidy, Michael Grimsrud, Rania Wasfi, Paul Tétreault, and Julien Surprenant-Legault
Measuring the performance of urban public transport in relation to public policy objectives, Bruno Faivre d'Arcier
Implementation Cost Comparison of Electric Vehicle Energy Replenishment Technologies for Public Transit Bus Systems, Paulo Kemper Filho and In-Soo Suh
Changes in access to public transportation for cycle–transit users in response to service reductions, Bradley J. Flamm, Kay M. Sutula, and Mahbubur R. Meenar
Effects of Fare Payment Types and Crowding on Dwell Time, Grant Fletcher and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Piloting Low-Cost Transit Service Enhancements Through Agency Collaboration, Tanya Flint, Ariel Ben-Amos, Patricia Ellis, and Gregory R. Krykewycz
Measuring and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of bus public transport systems, Georgios Georgiadis, Ioannis Politis, and Panagiotis Papaioannou
Bus accident analysis of routes with/without bus priority, Kelvin Chun Keong Goh, Graham Currie, Majid Sarvi, and David Logan
Factors affecting the probability of bus drivers being at-fault in bus-involved accidents, Kelvin Goh, Graham Currie, Majid Sarvi, and David Logan
Sequential Framework for Short-Term Passenger Flow Prediction at Bus Stop, Min Gong, Xiang Fei, Zhi Hu Wang, and Yun Jie Qiu
Benefits of Real-Time Transit Information and Impacts of Data Accuracy on Rider Experience, Aaron Gooze, Kari Edison Watkins, and Alan Borning
Improving Fuel Efficiency and Reducing Carbon Emissions from Buses in India, Sudhir Gota, Parthaa Bosu, and Sameera Kumar Anthapur
Prevalence of and factors associated with distraction among public transit bus drivers, Russell Griffin, Carrie Huisingh, and Gerald McGwin Jr
Evaluation of Presignals at Oversaturated Signalized Intersections, S. Ilgin Guler and Monica Menendez
Artificial Neural Network Travel Time Prediction Model for Buses Using Only GPS Data, Zegeye Kebede Gurmu and Wei (David) Fan
On the impacts of bus stops near signalized intersections: Models of car and bus delays, Weihua Gu, Vikash V. Gayah, Michael J. Cassidy, and Nathalie Saade
Optimal Connected Urban Bus Network of Priority Lanes, Yuval Hadas and Avishai (Avi) Ceder
Public Transport Time-Tabling Based on Maximum-Load Points Using Multisize Vehicles, Stephan Hassold and Avishai (Avi) Ceder
Improving Energy Efficiency of Public Transport Bus Services by Using Multiple Vehicle Types, Stephan Hassold and Avishai (Avi) Ceder
Public transport vehicle scheduling featuring multiple vehicle types, Stephan Hassold and Avishai (Avi) Ceder
Multi-modal traffic signal control with priority, signal actuation and coordination, Qing He, K Larry Head, and Jun Ding
Flex Scheduling for Bus Arrival Time Prediction, Troy Hernandez
Dynamic Dispatch with Advanced Train Control System Data Application to Muni Metro Light Rail Vehicles Departing Embarcadero Station in San Francisco, California, April M. Hickey, Cornelius Nuworsoo, and Christopher A. Pangilinan
