Submissions from 2012
Feeder Bus Network Design Problem: a New Metaheuristic Procedure and Real Size Applications, F. Ciaffi, E. Cipriani, and M. Petrelli
Optimizing bus-size and headway in transit networks, Luigi dell'Olio, Angel Ibeas, and Francisco Ruisánchez
Minimization of Fuel Consumption in City Bus Transportation: A Case Study for Izmir, Uğur Eliiyi, Effendi Nasibov, Mefharet Özkılçık, and Ümit Kuvvetli
Guidebook for Evaluating Fuel Purchasing Strategies for Public Transit Agencies, David Friedman and Kevin DeCorla-Souza
Utilization of passenger transport subsidy in Kolkata: A case study of Calcutta State Transport Corporation, Sudakshina Gupta and Aparajita Mukherjee
Evaluating and Enhancing the Operational Performance of Public Bus Systems Using GIS-based Data Envelopment Analysis, Yaser E. Hawas, Md. Bayzid Khan, and Nandita Basu
Assessing the wider economy impacts of transport infrastructure investment with an illustrative application to the North-West Rail Link project in Sydney, Australia, David A. Hensher, Truong P. Truong, Corinne Mulley, and Richard Ellison
Reduced dwell times resulting from train–platform improvements: the costs and benefits of improving passenger accessibility to metro trains, Xenia Karekla and Nick Tyler
Optimization of Rail Transit Alignments Considering Vehicle Dynamics, Xiaorong Lai and Paul Schonfeld
Toward More Comprehensive and Multi-modal Transport Evaluation, Todd Litman
Analysis on Cost of Urban Rail Transit, Wenxing Li and Shuai Yin
Cost Estimation of Fare-Free ADA Complementary Paratransit Service in Illinois, Paul Metaxatos and Lise Dirks
Bus rapid transit as part of enhanced service provision, Juan Carlos Muñoz and Darío Hidalgo
Proactive Recovery from Rail Disruptions Through Provision of Track Crossovers and Bus Bridging, Brendan Pender, Graham Currie, Alexa Delbosc, and Yibing Wang
Evaluating the long term impacts of transport policy: The case of passenger rail privatisation, John Preston and Dawn Robins
The design of interurban bus networks in city centers, Mireia Roca-Riu, Miquel Estrada, and César Trapote
Cost-saving properties of schedule coordination in a simple trunk-and-feeder transit system, Karthikgeyan Sivakumaran, Yuwei Li, Michael J. Cassidy, and Samer Madanat
Transport infrastructure provision and operations: Why should governments choose private–public partnership?, D. Tsamboulas, A. Verma, and P. Moraiti
Bus Rapid Transit: Projects improve transit service and can contribute to economic development, United Stated Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Public Policy Objectives and Urban Transit Case of Passenger Ferries in the New York City Region, Pierre B. Vilain, Janet Cox, and Vicente Mantero
New Zealand Bus Policy Model, Ian P. Wallis and Daan Schneiders
Model and Algorithm of Regional Bus Scheduling with Grey Travel Time, Ming Wei, Bo Sun, and Wenzhou Jin
Submissions from 2011
Improving the efficiency of metropolitan area transit by joint analysis of its multiple providers, Darold T. Barnum, Matthew G. Karlaftis, and Sonali Tandon
Joint Optimization of Bus Size, Headway, and Slack Time for Efficient Timed Transfer, Md. Shoaib Chowdhury and Steven I-Jy Chien
Relationships between fares, trip length and market competition, Derek J. Clark, Finn Jørgensen, and Terje Andreas Mathisen
Integrating short turning and deadheading in the optimization of transit services, Cristián E. Cortés, Sergio Jara-Díaz, and Alejandro Tirachini
Recent Developments in Bus Rapid Transit: A Review of the Literature, Taotao Deng and John D. Nelson
Design and implementation of efficient transit networks: Procedure, case study and validity test, M. Estrada, M. Roca-Riu, H. Badia, F. Robusté, and C. F. Daganzo
System for Transit Performance Analysis Using the National Transit Database, Albert Gan, Feng Gui, and Li Tang
Creation of Life-Cycle Cost Tool for Transit Buses to Evaluate Hybrid Electric Bus Technologies in Real-World Operation, Aaron Golub, Feng Zhen, Nigel N. Clark, W. Scott Wayne, John J. Schiavone, Cliff Chambers, and Kevin L. Chandler
Evaluation Method about Bus Scheduling Based on Discrete Hopfield Neural Network, Zhiqiang Liu, Li Zhang, Xue Lv, and Jie Chen
Marginal Cost Pricing and Subsidy of Transit in Small Urban Areas, Jeremy Mattson and David Ripplinger
Transit asset condition reporting, Brian McCollom and Stephen A. Berrang
Analysis of Contracting for Fixed Route Bus Service, Stephen L. Reich and Janet L. Davis
Tracking Costs of Alternatively Fueled Buses in Florida, Stephen L. Reich and Alexander Kolpakov
Some determinants of cost efficiency in German public transport, Matthias Walter
Cost Analysis of Public Transport in Shanghai, Zheng Wang, Chao Zhu, and Siaofang Shan
Route layout analysis for express buses, S. C. Wirasinghe and U. Vandebona
Submissions from 2010
Estimating Soft Costs for Major Public Transportation Fixed Guideway Projects: Part 1: Guidebook; Part 2: Final Report, AECOM Consult Incorporated
The 2008 New Zealand public transport management act: Rationale, key provisions, and parallels with the United Kingdom, David P. Ashmore and Andrew D. Mellor
Five-Phase Approach to Improve Design of Printed Transit Information and to Monitor Impact on Customer Satisfaction, Alisdair Cain and Judith Lavelle
Transit network design: A procedure and an application to a large urban area, Ernesto Cipriani, Stefano Gori, and Marco Petrelli
Optimal coordination of public-transit vehicles using operational tactics examined by simulation, Yuval Hadas and Avishai Ceder
Rail Patronage Management - effectiveness in practice, and new theoretical frames, Chris A. Hale and Philip Charles
Practice Reviews in Peak Period Rail Demand Management: Munich & Washington DC, Chris A. Hale and Philip Charles
Incompleteness and clarity in bus contracts: Identifying the nature of the ex ante and ex post perceptual divide, David A. Hensher
Effects of contracting on cost efficiency in US fixed-route bus transit service, Hiroyuki Iseki
Using Standardized Revenue and Cost Norm Analyses to Reveal Subsidy Fraud in Contracted Public Transport Services, Finn Jorgensen and Terje Andreas Mathisen
Integrated transit services for minimum cost operation considering heterogeneous demand, Steven I. Jy Chien, Yavus Y. Ulusoy, and Chien-Hung Wei
Optimal resource allocation among transit agencies for fleet management, Tom V. Mathew, Snehamay Khasnabis, and Sabyasachee Mishra
Changes in transaction costs over time – The case of franchised train operating firms in Britain, Rico Merkert
European rail reform and passenger services – the next steps, Chris Nash
Track Geometry for Light Rail Systems, Margarita Novales, Alfonso Orro, and Miguel R. Bugarín
Performance analysis of rail transit investments in Turkey: İstanbul, Ankara, İzmir and Bursa, Özge Özgür
Exploring Priorities in Transit Scheduling Between Small and Large Bus Companies, Brendan Pender and Graham Currie
Subway Productivity, Profitability, and Performance A Tale of Five Cities, Alla V. Reddy, Alex Lu, and Ted Wang
The effect of governmental subsidies and the contractual model on the publicly-owned bus sector in Japan, Hiroki Sakai and Kenichi Shoji
Guiding the Selection and Application of Wayside Energy Storage Technologies for Rail Transit and Electric Utilities, Martin P. Schroeder, Jianguo Yu, and David Teumim
Evaluation of an existing bus network using a transit network optimisation model: a case study of the Hiroshima City Bus network, Hiroshi Shimamoto, Naoki Murayama, Akimasa Fujiwara, and Janyi Zhang
Exploring the effects of passenger rail franchising in Britain: Evidence from the first two rounds of franchising (1997–2008), Andrew S.J. Smith, Phill E. Wheat, and Chris A. Nash
Increased coordination in public transport—which mechanisms are available?, Claus Hedegaard Sørensen and Frode Longva
Optimal design and benefits of a short turning strategy for a bus corridor, Alejandro Tirachini, Cristián E. Cortés, and Sergio R. Jara-Díaz
Comparing operator and users costs of light rail, heavy rail and bus rapid transit over a radial public transport network, Alejandro Tirachini, David A. Hensher, and Sergio R. Jara-Diaz
Optimal All-Stop, Short-Turn, and Express Transit Services Under Heterogeneous Demand, Yavuz Y. Ulusoy, Steven I-Jy Chien, and Chien-Hung Wei
Submissions from 2009
Determinants of Automobile Use: Comparison of Germany and the United States, Ralph Buehler
Assessment of Hybrid-Electric Transit Bus Technology, Nigel N. ClarkF, Feng Zhen, W. Scott Wayne, John J. Schiavone, Cliff Chambers, Aaron D. Golub, and Kevin L. Chandler
High Ridership Growth from Extended Transit Service Hours: An Exploration of the Causes, Graham Currie and Chris Loader
Effects of Onboard Ticket Sales on Public Transport Reliability, Robert Dorbritz, Marco Luthi, Ulrich Alois Weidmann, and Andrew Nash
Development of Real-Time Optimal Bus Scheduling and Headway Control Models, Wongil Kim, Bongsoo Son, Jin-Hyuk Chung, and Eungcheol Kim
Assessing a Model for Optimal Bus Stop Spacing with High-Resolution Archived Stop-Level Data, Huan Li and Robert Lawrence Bertini
A Lagrangian Heuristic for the Real-Time Vehicle Rescheduling Problem, Jing-Quan Li, Pitu B. Mirchandani, and Denis Borenstein
Optimal Zone Design for Feeder Transit Services, Xiugang Li and Luca Quadrifoglio
Calculation of Benefits of Advanced Integrated Rail Service: Application of Intelligent Transportation Systems to the Developing City of Lima, Peru, Manuel J. Martinez
Planning for Bus-on-Shoulders Operations in Northeastern Illinois: A Survey of Stakeholders, Paul Metaxatos and Piyushimita Thakuriah
Submissions from 2008
Examining the Cost Structure of Urban Bus Transit industry: Does Urban Geography Help?, K Mert Cubukcu
Perspectives for a future high-speed train in the Swedish domestic travel market, Oskar Froidh
Creative Ways to Manage Paratransit Costs, Jay A. Goodwill and Holly Carapella
Light Rail Cost Functions and Technical Inefficiency, Donald John Harmatuck
An assessment of the performance of the European long intermodal freight trains (LIFTS), Milan Janic
Factors influencing productivity and operating cost of demand responsive transit, Kurt Palmer, Maged Dessouky, and Zhiqiang Zhou
Submissions from 2007
Economies of scale and scope in local public transportation, Mehdi Farsi, Aurelio Fetz, and Massimo Filippini
Stop Spacing Analysis Using Geographic Information System Tools with Parcel and Street Network Data, Peter G. Furth, Maaza C. Mekuria, and Joseph L. SanClemente
Some Lessons from the LRT in Tunis and the Transferability of Experience, Xavier Godard
Evaluation of Transit Signal Priority and Optimal Signal Timing Plans in Transit and Traffic Operations, Satyanarayana Muthuswamy, William R. McShane, and Janice R. Daniel
Metro station operating costs: An econometric analysis, Mohammed Quddus, Nigel Harris, and Daniel J. Graham
Submissions from 2006
Bi-Level Mathematical Programming Model for Locating Bus Stops and Optimizing Frequencies, Luigi dell'Olio, Jose Luis Moura, and Angel Ibeas
Simultaneous Optimization of Transit Line Configuration and Passenger Line Assignment, J F. Guan, Hai Yang, and S C. Wirasinghe
Congestion, Pollution, and Benefit-to-Cost Ratios of US Public Transit Systems, Jon D. Harford
Improvements in High-Speed Ballasted Track Design: Benefits of Bituminous Subballast Layers, Paulo Fonseca Teixeira, Andrés López-Pita, Carles Casas-Esplugas, Adrina Bachiller, and Francesc Robuste
Submissions from 2005
Paying for transit in an era of federal policy, Jeffrey Brown
Bus Rapid Transit and Light Rail: Comparing Operating Costs with a Parametric Cost Model, Eric Bruun
Personal Rapid Transit for Airport Applications, Martin Lowson
Rural School Vehicle Routing Problem, David Ripplinger
Submissions from 2004
IMPACTS OF MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES ON DEMAND RESPONSIVE TRANSIT SYSTEMS, Kurt Palmer, Maged Dessouky, and Tamer Abdelmaguid
Submissions from 2003
PRICING COMMUTER, INTERCITY, AND FREIGHT TRAINS IN A TERMINAL RAILWAY CONTEXT: AN APPROACH, B K. Bertie
JOINTLY OPTIMIZING COST, SERVICE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE IN DEMAND-RESPONSIVE TRANSIT SCHEDULING, M Dessouky, M RAHIMI, and M Weidner
ON THE OPTIMAL FARE POLICIES IN URBAN TRANSPORTATION, P A. Pedersen
Fare, free, or something in between?, Jennifer S. Perone and Joel M. Volinski
MAGNEMOTION MAGLEV SYSTEM, R Thornton, T CLARK, and K Stevens
