Submissions from 2019
Comprehensive Bus Network Redesigns, Lora B. Byala, Katie Filardo, Oren Hirsch, Michael J. Walk, James P. Cardenas, and Jinuk Hwang
Associations among Distance, Quality, and Safety When Walking from a Park-and-Ride Facility to the Transit Station in the Twin Cities, Jason (Xinyu) Cao and Michael Duncan
GTFS-Ride: Unifying Standard for Fixed-Route Ridership Data, Phillip Carleton, Sylvan Hoover, Ben Fields, Matthew Barnes, and J. David Porter
Transit Planners’ Transit-Oriented Development-Related Practices and Theories, Ian Carlton
Geographic mobility of recent immigrants and urban transit demand in the U.S.: New evidence and planning implications, Sandip Chakrabarti and Gary Painter
Application of Machine Learning to Two Large-Sample Household Travel Surveys: A Characterization of Travel Modes, Robert Chapleau, Philippe Gaudette, and Tim Spurr
Penalization and augmented Lagrangian for O-D demand matrix estimation from transit segment counts, María Victoria Chávez Hernández, Lorenzo Héctor Juárez Valencia, and Yasmín Águeda Ríos Solís
Assessing accessibility-based service effectiveness (ABSEV) and social equity for urban bus transit: A sustainability perspective, Yuan Chen, Ahmed Bouferguene, Yinghua Shen, and Mohamed Al-Hussein
Assigning Bus Delay and Predicting Travel Times using Automated Vehicle Location Data, Christy Coghlan, Sina Dabiri, Brian Mayer, Mitch Wagner, Eric Williamson, Michael Eichler, and Naren Ramakrishnan
Accessibility and the journey to work through the lens of equity, Boer Cui, Geneviève Boisjoly, Ahmed El-Geneidy, and David Levinson
Review of Track Inspection and Maintenance Standards for Transit, David D. Davis, Stephen Dick, Stephen Wilk, MaryClara Jones, and Yuqing Zeng
A comparison of the personal and neighborhood characteristics associated with ridesourcing, transit use, and driving with NHTS data, Devajyoti Deka and Da Fei
Millennials in cities: Comparing travel behaviour trends across six case study regions, Alexa Delbosc, Noreen McDonald, Gordon Stokes, Karen Lucas, Giovanni Circella, and Yongsung Lee
Analyzing Transit User Behavior with 51 Weeks of Smart Card Data, Elodie Deschaintres, Catherine Morency, and Martin Trépanier
Current State of Practice in Transit Ridership Prediction: Results from a Survey of Canadian Transit Agencies, Ehab Diab, Dena Kasraian, Eric J. Miller, and Amer Shalaby
How does the station-area built environment influence Metrorail ridership? Using gradient boosting decision trees to identify non-linear thresholds, Chuan Ding, Jason (Xinyu) Cao, and Chao Liu
Transit user perceptions of driverless buses, Xiaoxia Dong, Matthew DiScenna, and Erick Guerra
Measuring situations that stress public bus users in Mexico: a case study of Cuernavaca, Morelos, Gabriel Dorantes-Argandar, Edna Yasiel Rivera-Vázquez, and Karlena María Cárdenas-Espinoza
Comparing Transit Agency Peer Groups using Cluster Analysis, David Ederer, Simon Berrebi, Chandler Diffee, Taylor Gibbs, and Kari E. Watkins
Linking social, semantic and sentiment analyses to support modeling transit customers’ satisfaction: Towards formal study of opinion dynamics, Tamer El-Diraby, Amer Shalaby, and Moein Hosseini
Transit justice as spatial justice: learning from activists, Theresa Enright
Foothill Transit Agency Battery Electric Bus Progress Report, Leslie Eudy and Matthew Jeffers
Comparative case studies: trip and parking generation at Orenco Station TOD, Portland Region and Station Park TAD, Salt Lake City Region, Reid Ewing, Guang Tian, Keunhyun Park, Sadegh Sabouri, Preston Stinger, and David Proffitt
Multimodal Connections with Transitways: Ridership, Access Mode, and Route Choice Implications, Yingling Fan, Andrew Guthrie, Alireza Khani, and Jacqueline Nowak
Strategic Communications Toolkit to Improve Support for Transit-Priority Projects, Christopher Forinash
Substitution of Ride-Hailing Services for More Sustainable Travel Options in the Greater Boston Region, Steven R. Gehrke, Alison Felix, and Timothy G. Reardon
The relationship between financial incentives provided by employers and commuters' decision to use transit: Results from the Atlanta Regional Household Travel Survey, Ramesh Ghimire and Colby Lancelin
Location Aware Networks Optimizing Use of Transit Systems by Blind Travelers, Yariv Glazer and Robert Shawn Wall Emerson
Role of Public Transportation in a Natural Disaster State of Emergency Declaration, Jodi Godfrey, Gennaro Saliceto, and Roberta Yegidis
Transit neighborhoods, commercial gentrification, and traffic crashes: Exploring the linkages in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, Silvia R. González, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, and Karen Chapple
Customer Journey Time Metrics for New York City Bus Service using Big Data, Edward Graves, Sunny Zheng, Lauren Tarte, Brian Levine, and Alla Reddy
Elevating access: Comparing accessibility to jobs by public transport for individuals with and without a physical disability, Emily Grisé, Geneviève Boisjoly, Meadhbh Maguire, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Passenger-Centric Performance Metrics for the New York City Subway, Anne Halvorsen, Daniel Wood, Timon Stasko, Darian Jefferson, and Alla Reddy
Implementing the U.S. DOT Reasonable Modification Rule, Beth Hamby
Fast-charging station deployment for battery electric bus systems considering electricity demand charges, Yi He, Ziqi Song, and Zhaocai Liu
Organisation and performance of public transport: A systematic cross-case comparison of metropolitan areas in Europe, Australia, and Canada, Fabio Hirschhorn, Wijnand Veeneman, and Didier van de Velde
Gender and Rail Transit Use: Influence of Environmental Beliefs and Safety Concerns, Hsin-Ping Hsu, Marlon G. Boarnet, and Douglas Houston
2019 Public Transportation Fact Book, MacPherson Hughes-Cromwick
Impacts of Rail Transit Accessibility on Firm Spatial Distribution: Case Study in the Metropolitan Area of Washington, DC, Hiroyuki Iseki and Hyunjoo Eom
When to go electric? A parallel bus fleet replacement study, Adrita Islam and Nicholas Lownes
Managing Unplanned Rail Disruptions: Policy Implications and Guidelines Towards an Effective Bus Bridging Strategy, Alaa Itani, Aya Aboudina, Ehab Diab, Siva Srikukenthiran, and Amer Shalaby
Investigation of the use of smartphone applications for trip planning and travel outcomes, Shaila Jamal and Muhammad Ahsanul Habib
Uber, Public Transit, and Urban Transportation Equity: A Case Study in New York City, Scarlett T. Jin, Hui Kong, and Daniel Z. Sui
Evaluation of Bus-Bicycle and Bus/Right-Turn Traffic Delays and Conflicts, Katherine L. Keeling, Travis B. Glick, Miles Crumley, and Miguel A. Figliozzi
Light rail transit and housing markets in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina: Announcement and operations effects using quasi-experimental methods, Yue Ke and Konstantina Gkritza
More than travel time: New accessibility index capturing the connectivity of transit services, Junghwan Kim and Bumsoo Lee
Preferences for travel-based multitasking: Evidence from a survey among public transit users in the Chicago metropolitan area, Rico Krueger, Taha H. Rashidi, and Joshua Auld
Transit Route Origin–Destination Matrix Estimation using Compressed Sensing, Pramesh Kumar, Alireza Khani, and Gary A. Davis
Demonstrating Transit Schedule Benefits with a Dedicated Short-Range Communication-Based Connected Vehicle System, Blaine D. Leonard, Jamie Mackey, Michael Sheffield, David Bassett, Shawn Larson, and Ivan Hooper
A linear program for optimal integration of shared autonomous vehicles with public transit, Michael W. Levin, Michael Odell, Shaluka Samarasena, and Adam Schwartz
Characterizing the Importance of Criminal Factors Affecting Bus Ridership using Random Forest Ensemble Algorithm, Qing Li, Fengxiang Qiao, Andrew Mao, and Catherine McCreight
Impact of Time-Varying Passenger Loading on Conventional and Electrified Transit Bus Energy Consumption, Luying Liu, Andrew Kotz, Aditya Salapaka, Eric Miller, and William F. Northrop
Social-Transportation Analytic Toolbox (STAT) for Transit Networks, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Ran Wei, Liming Wang, and Aaron Golub
Stochastic on-time arrival problem in transit networks, Yang Liu, Sebastien Blandin, and Samitha Samaranayake
Economic Analysis of On-Route Fast Charging for Battery Electric Buses: Case Study in Utah, Zhaocai Liu, Ziqi Song, and Yi He
“Three Ps in a MOD:” Role for mobility on demand (MOD) public-private partnerships in public transit provision, Emma Lucken, Karen Trapenberg Frick, and Susan A. Shaheen
Modeling the Effect of New Commuter Bus Service on Demand and Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Application to Greater Boston, Christopher Lyman, Nicholas Campbell, Eric J. Gonzales, and Eleni Christofa
Do transportation network companies reduce public transit use in the U.S.?, Narendra Malalgoda and Siew Hoon Lim
How do activities conducted while commuting influence mode choice? Using revealed preference models to inform public transportation advantage and autonomous vehicle scenarios, Aliaksandr Malokin, Giovanni Circella, and Patricia L. Mokhtarian
A dynamic ridesharing dispatch and idle vehicle repositioning strategy with integrated transit transfers, Tai-Yu Ma, Saeid Rasulkhani, Joseph Y.J. Chow, and Sylvain Klein
Estimating the Impacts of Capital Bikeshare on Metrorail Ridership in the Washington Metropolitan Area, Ting Ma and Gerrit-Jan Knaap
The Relationship between Streetcars and Development Activity: An Examination of Portland and Seattle, Joel Mendez and Jeffrey R. Brown
Extreme weather, public transport ridership and moderating effect of bus stop shelters, Qing Miao, Eric W. Welch, and P. S. Sriraj
Optimizing transit maintenance and rehabilitation to support human development and sustainability: A case study of Costa Rica’s railroad network, Alireza Mohammadi, Feras Elsaid, and Luis Amador-Jiminez
Does demand for subway ridership in Manhattan depend on the rainfall events?, Shirin Najafabadi, Ali Hamidi, Mahdieh Allahviranloo, and Naresh Devineni
Partnerships Between Transit Agencies and Transportation Network Companies, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Streetcars and Real Estate Rents with Implications for Transit and Land Use Planning, Arthur C. Nelson and Robert Hibberb
Express busways and economic development: Case study of the Miami-Dade South Express Busway, Arthur C. Nelson and Robert Hibberd
Light rail transit and economic recovery: A case of resilience or transformation?, Arthur C. Nelson, Philip Stoker, and Robert Hibberd
US Commuter Rail Renaissance: A 30-Year Progress Report, David O. Nelson and Katherine K. O'Neil
Urban bus ridership, income, and extreme weather events, Nicole S. Ngo
Understanding the factors that influence the probability and time to streetcar bunching incidents, Paula Nguyen, Ehab Diab, and Amer Shalaby
Life cycle assessment of city buses powered by electricity, hydrogenated vegetable oil or diesel, Anders Nordelöf, Mia Romare, and Johan Tivander
An econometric investigation of the influence of transit passes on transit users’ behavior in Toronto, Khandker Nurul Habib and Sami Hasnine
Public transit cost efficiency studies: The impact of non-contracting regulations, K. Obeng
Assessing Transit-Oriented Development Implementation in Canadian Cities: An Urban Project Approach, Florence Paulhiac Scherrer
A general formulation for multi-modal dynamic traffic assignment considering multi-class vehicles, public transit and parking, Xidong Pi, Wei Ma, and Zhen (Sean) Qian
Understanding Ridership Trends in Transit, Steven E. Polzin and Jodi Godfey
Analysis of transit users’ waiting tolerance in response to unplanned service disruptions, Ehsan Rahimi, Ali Shamshiripour, Ramin Shabanpour, Abolfazl Mohammadian, and Joshua Auld
Controlling for endogeneity between bus headway and bus ridership: A case study of the Orlando region, Moshiur Rahman, Shamsunnahar Yasmin, and Naveen Eluru
Evaluating the impact of a newly added commuter rail system on bus ridership: a grouped ordered logit model approach, Moshiur Rahman, Shamsunnahar Yasmin, and Naveen Eluru
Examining determinants of rail ridership: a case study of the Orlando SunRail system, Moshiur Rahman, Shamsunnahar Yasmin, and Naveen Eluru
Security and Safety of Rail Transit Tunnels, Anna M. Rakoczy, Stephen T. Wilk, and MaryClara Jones
The role of habit and residential location in travel behavior change programs, a field experiment, Kelcie M. Ralph and Anne E. Brown
The Politics of Prioritizing Transit on City Streets, Rosalie Singerman Ray
The opportunities and tensions of historic preservation and transit oriented development (TOD), John L. Renne and David Listokin
Development of a neighborhood commute mode share model using nationally-available data, Robert J. Schneider, Lingqian Hu, and Joseph Stefanich
Uber Economics: Evaluating the Monetary and Travel Time Trade-Offs of Transportation Network Companies and Transit Service in Chicago, Illinois, Joseph P. Schwieterman
FTA Market Conditions Research: Recommendations for Improving Transit Industry Cost Estimation, Rizwan Shah, Haley S. Orvedal, Matthew Gilstrap, and Maya Sarna
The Real Estate Mantra- Locate Near Public Transportation, Preeti Shankar, Linda Young, Peter Haas, and Paul Esling
Ridership Ramp-Up? Initial Ridership Variation on New Rail Transit Projects, Jill Elizabeth Shinn and Carole Turley Voulgaris
Multimodal travel-based multitasking during the commute: Who does what?, Patrick A. Singleton
Exploring public transport sustainability with neutrosophic logic, Phillip Smith
Effects of transit signal priority on traffic safety: Interrupted time series analysis of Portland, Oregon, implementations, Yu Song and David Noyce
Incorporating Product Choice into Transit Fare Policy Scenario Models, Andrew Stuntz, John Attanucci, and Fredrick P. Salvucci
Operational planning of public transit with economic and environmental goals: application to the Minneapolis–St. Paul bus system, Bixuan Sun and Jeffrey Apland
Identifying commonly used and potentially unsafe transit transfers with crowdsourcing, Elizabeth J. Traut and Aaron Steinfeld
Free-floating carsharing and extemporaneous public transit substitution, Justin Tyndall
Connected Vehicle (CV) Infrastructure – Urban Bus Operational Safety Platform Project Report, Dave Valentine, Anthony Polinori, Matt Windholtz, Bill Gibbs, Dave Neumeister, Greg Baumgarden, and Ben Paselsky
