Submissions from 2024
Mobility-as-a-Service and unsustainable travel behaviour: Exploring the car ownership and public transport trip replacement side-effects of the MaaS paradigm, Elena Alyavina, Alexandros Nikitas, and Eric Tchouamou Njoya
Resilience as a Service for Transportation Networks: Definition and Basic Concepts, Rihab Amghar, Sara Jaber, S. M. Hassan Mahdavi Moghaddam, Neila Bhouri, and Mostafa Ameli
Comparing the application of different justice theories in equity analysis of transit projects: A case study of the Lisbon Metro Circular Line, Julianno Amorim and João de Abreu e Silva
Vehicle pricing considering EVs promotion and public transportation investment under governmental policies on sustainable transportation development: The case of Norway, Fariba Asgarian, Seyed Reza Hejazi, Hossein Khosroshahi, and Soroush Safarzadeh
Assessing Tram-Train feasibility via multicriteria approach: The case of Brescia (Italy), Nuhamin G. Assefa, Martina Carra, Roberto Ventura, Anna Richiedei, and Benedetto Barabino
Discrete choice modeling with anonymized data, Milos Balac, Sebastian Hörl, and Basil Schmid
Integrating environmental issues into the design of mobility plans: Insights from French practices, Julien Baltazar, Ghada Bouillass, Flore Vallet, Jakob Puchinger, and Nicolas Perry
Origin–destination matrices from smartphone apps for bus networks, Benedetto Barabino, Mauro Coni, Massimo Di Francesco, Andrea Obino, and Roberto Ventura
Evaluating alternative fuels for a bus fleet: An Italian case, Fabio Borghetti, Martina Carra, Carlotta Besson, Elisabetta Matarrese, Roberto Maja, and Benedetto Barabino
Air–rail timetable synchronisation: Improving passenger connections in Europe within and across transportation modes, Clara Buire, Aude Marzuoli, Daniel Delahaye, and Marcel Mongeau
Benchmarking the efficiency of European metros from a production perspective, Luigi Castagna, António Lobo, Pierluigi Coppola, and António Couto
Research and innovation paving the way for climate neutrality in urban transport: Analysis of 362 cities on their journey to zero emissions, Panayotis Christidis, Giulia Ulpiani, Marcin Stepniak, and Nadja Vetters
The effects of ambient scent on olfactory comfort and attitude toward its use in a tramway: an on-board study, Frédéric Collin, Arthur Dupuly, Isabelle Parrot, Ismaël Barbara, Gérard Dray, Sophie Martin, and Lionel Brunel
Assessing modal tradeoffs and associated built environment characteristics using a cost-distance framework, Kevin Credit and Conor O'Driscoll
Validation of a multi-modal transit route choice model using smartcard data, Malvika Dixit, Oded Cats, Niels van Oort, Ties Brands, and Serge Hoogendoorn
A pilot study evaluating the preventive effects of platform-end lengthwise fencing on trespassing, person struck by train and traffic delays, Johan Fredin-Knutzén, Gergö Hadlaczky, Anders Wigren, and Marcus Sokolowski
Improving bus arrival time predictors using only public transport API data, Carlos García-Mauriño, Pedro J. Zufiria, and Alejandro Jarabo-Peñas
City-forming role of the Metro in Warsaw, Sławomir Goliszek
A stochastic hub location and fleet assignment problem for the design of reconfigurable park-and-ride systems, Matthieu Guillot, David Rey, Angelo Furno, and Nour-Eddin El Faouzi
Identifying alternative stops for first and last-mile urban travel planning, Thomas Horstmannshoff and Michael Redmond
Delivering Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in low to medium density contexts. Actor relationships and market conditions in smaller Swedish cities, Robert Hrelja and Tom Rye
Explainable train delay propagation: A graph attention network approach, Ping Huang, Jingwei Guo, Shu Liu, and Francesco Corman
Impacts of transit-oriented development on car use over a 10-year period in Porto, Portugal: From macro- to micro-analysis, Anna Ibraeva, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Cecilia Silva, and António Pais Antunes
Public transport route choice modelling: Reducing estimation bias when using smart card data, Jesper Bláfoss Ingvardson, Mikkel Thorhauge, Otto Anker Nielsen, and Morten Eltved
Crowdedness information and travel decisions of pedestrians and public transport users in the COVID-19 era: A stated preference analysis, Maria Karatsoli, Eftihia Nathanail, Socrates Basbas, and Oded Cats
Spatial effects of carbon pricing on transport equity, Stephan Keuchel and David Lohrmann
A data-driven approach for quantifying the resilience of railway networks, Max J. Knoester, Nikola Bešinović, Amir Pooyan Afghari, Rob M.P. Goverde, and Jochen van Egmond
Fare revenue forecast in public transport: A comparative case study, Jonas Krembsler, Sandra Spiegelberg, Richard Hasenfelder, Nicki Lena Kämpf, Thomas Winter, and Robert Knappe
Revealing latent trajectories of (intended) train travel during and after COVID-19, Maarten Kroesen, Huyen T.K. Le, Jonas De Vos, Danique Ton, and Menno de Bruyn
How do German cities translate global sustainability visions into local mobility planning? A quantitative analysis of planners' perspectives and priorities, Jonas Krombach, Juan Nicolas Gonzalez, Rico Wittwer, Stefan Hubrich, Florian Baumgart, and Regine Gerike
An adaptive route choice model for integrated fixed and flexible transit systems, David Leffler, Wilco Burghout, Oded Cats, and Erik Jenelius
Integrating shared e-scooters as the feeder to public transit: A comparative analysis of 124 European cities, Aoyong Li, Kun Gao, Pengxiang Zhao, and Kay W. Axhausen
Analyzing the impact of fare-free public transport policies on crowding patterns at stations using crowdsensing data, Qing-Long Lu, Vishal Mahajan, Cheng Lyu, and Constantinos Antoniou
A hybrid metaheuristic to optimize electric first-mile feeder services with charging synchronization constraints and customer rejections, Tai-Yu Ma, Yumeng Fang, Richard D. Connors, Francesco Viti, and Haruko Nakao
A framework to include socio-demographic characteristics in potential job accessibility levels in low-car and car-free development areas in the Netherlands, Rutger Meester, Baran Ulak, and Karst T. Geurs
Promoting a sustainable behavioral shift in commuting choices: the role of previous intention and “personalized travel plan” feedback, Oriana Mosca, Marco Lauriola, Andrea Manunza, Alessandro Lorenzo Mura, Francesco Piras, Eleonora Sottile, Italo Meloni, and Ferdinando Fornara
Beyond fare evasion: the everyday moralities of non-payment and underpayment on public transport, Daniel Muñoz, Kris Lee, and Anna Plyushteva
University commuting during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in travel behaviour and mode preferences, Jurgena Myftiu, Chiara Gigliarano, Elena Maggi, and Andrea Scagni
Towards real-time condition monitoring of a transition zone in a railway structure using fibre Bragg grating sensors, Kourosh Nasrollahi, Jelke Dijkstra, and Jens C.O. Nielsen
The importance of recurring public transport delays for accessibility and mode choice, Aaron Nichols, Jean Ryan, and Carl-William Palmqvist
Mobility justice or transit boosterism? The use of rail transit as an urban transformation strategy in Kitchener, Canada, and Malmö, Sweden, Lina Olsson and Ren Thomas
Planning the future of rail in the post-COVID era, Francesca Pagliara, Massimo Aria, Armando Castelluccio, Mario Tartaglia, and Luca D'Aniello
Factors influencing the perceived value of travel time in European urban areas, Ghadir Pourhashem, Christina Georgouli, Eva Malichová, Milan Straka, and Tatiana Kováčiková
Smartphone mobility assistants. A lever to guide route choice preferences in mass transit?, Archana Prabhakar, Elise Grison, and Simone Morgagni
Understanding the expectations of parents regarding their children's school commuting by public transport using latent Dirichlet Allocation, Mariza Motta Queiroz, Carlos Roque, Filipe Moura, and João Marôco
Agent-based decision-support model for bus route redesign in networks of small cities and towns: case study of Agder, Norway, Sinziana I. Rasca, Bin Hu, Benjamin Biesinger, and Matthias Prandtstetter
Train stations’ impact on housing prices: Direct and indirect effects, Alexandra Rojas
Sustainable development of passenger transport in Poland in the context of young passengers’ preference survey, Grażyna Rosa
A new tramway and the formation of emotional commuting experiences, Birgitta Sandberg, Leila Hurmerinta, Ville Helminen, Henna M. Leino, and Tommi Vasankari
Life cycle cost assessment of railways infrastructure asset under climate change impacts, Khosro Soleimani-Chamkhorami, A. H.S. Garmabaki, Ahmad Kasraei, Stephen M. Famurewa, Johan Odelius, and Gustav Strandberg
Synergizing cycling and transit: Strategic placement of cycling infrastructure to enhance job accessibility, Lucas Spierenburg, Hans van Lint, and Niels van Oort
Improving interest in public, active, and shared travel modes through nudging interventions, Juliet Steffan, Hannah Hook, and Frank Witlox
Knowledge integration in policy development and assessment for sustainable passenger transport transformation, Karl W. Steininger, Alfred Posch, Annina Thaller, Christoph Romirer, Raphaela Maier, Eva Fleiß, Georg Jäger, Stefan Nabernegg, Simon Plakolb, Holger Heinfellner, Oswald Thaller, and Eva Schulev-Steindl
Fare-free, not carefree: care mobilities in a fare-free public transport system in Tallinn, Louise Sträuli
Risk mitigation in urban bus concession contracts: Overcoming uncertainties with a real options model, Gabriel Stumpf, Rui Cunha Marques, R. Richard Geddes, and Rafael Igrejas da Silva
Exploring the relationship between public transport use and COVID-19 infection: A survey data analysis in Madrid Region, Lucía Tapiador, Juan Gomez, and José Manuel Vassallo
Using different transport modes: An opportunity to reduce UK passenger transport emissions?, Hugh Thomas and André Cabrera Serrenho
Blind classification of e-scooter trips according to their relationship with public transport, Juan José Vinagre Díaz, Rubén Fernández Pozo, Ana Belén Rodríguez González, Mark Richard Wilby, and Bani Anvari
‘Bouncing between the buses like a kangaroo’: efficient transport, exhausted workers, Chiara Vitrano and Wojciech Kębłowski
Increasing public transport revenue or intensifying cannibalization: The effects of introducing a new tariff option in addition to pay-per-use and flat rate options, Christian Weibel, Lisa Dang, and Widar von Arx
A qualitative study on transportation experiences of public transport users in Türkiye during the COVID-19 pandemic, Şerife Yılmaz, Gizem Fındık, and Bahar Öz
Adaptive rescheduling of rail transit services with short-turnings under disruptions via a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning approach, Chengshuo Ying, Andy H.F. Chow, Yimo Yan, Yong-Hong Kuo, and Shouyang Wang
Submissions from 2023
E-scooters and public transport – Complement or competition?, Jørgen Aarhaug, Nils Fearnley, and Espen Johnsson
An evaluation of optimal scale and jurisdiction size to improve efficiency in metropolitan bus systems, Daniel Albalate, Germà Bel, and Jordi Rosell
Examining the effect of integrated ticketing on mode choice for interregional commuting: Studies among car commuters, I. B. Alhassan, B. Matthews, J. P. Toner, and Y. O. Susilo
Collaborative challenges and barriers when planning and implementing Bus Rapid Transit (BRT). Lessons from Swedish BRT projects, Jakob Allansson, Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt, and Robert Hrelja
The impact of ownership and contractual practice on the technical efficiency level of the public transport operators: An international comparison, Foued Aloulou and Imen Ghannouchi
The level and determinants of multimodal travel behavior: Does trip purpose make a difference?, Zihao An, Eva Heinen, and David Watling
Analysing the acceptance of autonomous buses in real-life traffic environments: pilot project with tourists in Malaga, Spain, Amor Ariza-Álvarez, M. Eugenia López-Lambas, and Julio A. Soria-Lara
Is unsubsidised energy transition possible? Feasibility of replacing diesel buses with electric ones, Javier Arizcuren-Blasco, Rodrigo Martin-Garcia, and Aurora Ruiz-Rua
A stochastic model for reliability analysis of periodic train timetables, Mehmet Şirin Artan and İsmail Şahin
Rationales for transitioning to electric buses in Swedish public transport, Vendela Åslund and Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt
Planning for Bus Rapid Transit in an island context. The challenges of implementing BRT in Malta, Maria Attard
Low-emission zones, modes of transport and house prices: evidence from Berlin’s commuter belt, Eren Aydin and Kathleen Kürschner Rauck
Forecasting passenger flows and headway at train level for a public transport line: Focus on atypical situations, Thomas Bapaume, Etienne Côme, Mostafa Ameli, Jérémy Roos, and Latifa Oukhellou
Segmenting fare-evaders by tandem clustering and logistic regression models, Benedetto Barabino and Sara Salis
Bus passenger injury prevention: Learning from onboard incidents, Jo Barnes, Laurie Brown, Andrew Morris, and Nathan Stuttard
Toward a reduction of car-based leisure travel: An analysis of determinants and potential measures, Anne Baumgertner, Iljana Schubert, Annika Sohre, Uros Tomic, Corinne Moser, and Paul Burger
Integrating Public Transit and Shared Micromobility Payments to Improve Transportation Equity in Seattle, WA, Kristen Beale, Bogdan Kapatsila, and Emily Grisé
Pandemic impacts on public transport safety and stress perceptions in Nordic cities, Lars Böcker, Lars E. Olsson, Tanu Priya Uteng, and Margareta Friman
Do the distributional preferences of national infrastructure planners diverge from those of the public?, Anders Bondemark, Henrik Andersson, and Karin Brundell-Freij
Assessing passenger preferences for Bus Rapid Transit characteristics: A discrete choice experiment among current and potential Dutch passengers, René Borsje, Suzanne Hiemstra-van Mastrigt, and Wijnand Veeneman
Multimodal Public Transit Network Design Method Based on Hub-and-Spoke Infrastructure, Zakaria Boutarfa and Mustafa Gok
A comparative analysis of charging strategies for battery electric buses in wholesale electricity and ancillary services markets, Nico Brinkel, Marle Zijlstra, Ronald van Bezu, Tim van Twuijver, Ioannis Lampropoulos, and Wilfried van Sark
Metro’s night travel offer on the weekend and its impact on house prices, Zheng Chang, Roland Füss, Johannes von Möllendorff, Jon Olaf Olaussen, and Alois Weigand
Mitigating Increased Driving after the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis on Mode Share, Travel Demand, and Public Transport Capacity, Francesca Ciuffini, Simone Tengattini, and Alexander York Bigazzi
The use of Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs) to probe deeper into railway safety management systems – Two studies from Great Britain and Italy, Alistair Cooper, Francesco Mazzeo, Patrick Waterson, Mark S. Young, and Dominique Louis
Future scenarios for the European railway sector: A methodology based on past trends and a stated preference survey, Rubén Cordera, Roberto Sañudo, Eneko Echániz, Soledad Nogués, and Luigi dell’Olio
Fostering synergy between transit and Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand systems: A dynamic modeling approach for the morning commute problem, Mélanie Cortina, Nicolas Chiabaut, and Ludovic Leclercq
Optimization and public transport tendering: a case study in Southern Italy, Vincenzo Corvello, Roberto Musmanno, Giuseppe Pavone, Francesco Santoro, and Francesca Vocaturo
Travel demand management: The solution to public transit congestion? An ex-ante evaluation of staggered work hours schemes for the Paris region, Nicolas Coulombel, Emmanuel Munch, and Cyril Pivano
Long run productivity and profitability in the British bus industry, Jonathan Cowie
“Tram Wrong Way” International Experience and Mitigation of Track Switch Errors, Graham Currie, James Reynolds, David Logan, and Kristie L. Young
Applying cost–benefit analysis to the economic evaluation of a tram-train system: Evidence from Brescia (Italy), Maria De Aloe, Roberto Ventura, Michela Bonera, Benedetto Barabino, and Giulio Maternini
Is it possible to attract private vehicle users towards public transport? Understanding the key role of service quality, satisfaction and involvement on behavioral intentions, Juan de Oña and Rocío de Oña
Should I stay or should I board? Willingness to wait with real-time crowding information in urban public transport, Arkadiusz Drabicki, Oded Cats, Rafał Kucharski, Achille Fonzone, and Andrzej Szarata
Mitigating bus bunching with real-time crowding information, Arkadiusz Drabicki, Rafał Kucharski, and Oded Cats
Effects on operating costs of adjusting bus departure times during peak-hour traffic in Sweden, Eva-Lena Eriksson, Helene Lidestam, and Lena Winslott Hiselius
Uncertainty in vulnerability of metro transit networks: A global perspective, Alireza Ermagun, Nazanin Tajik, Fatemeh Janatabadi, and Hani Mahmassani