Submissions from 2021
Assessing the Bus Bridging Effectiveness on the Operational Resilience of the Subway Service in Toronto, Alaa Itani and Amer Shalaby
Assessing and Predicting Mobility Improvement of Integrating Bike-Sharing into Multimodal Public Transport Systems, Christian Kapuku, Seung-Young Kho, Dong-Kyu Kim, and Shin-Hyung Cho
Relative Mobility Analysis of a Public Transport Network in Comparison with Car Travel, Ronny Kutadinata, Subhrasankha Dey, and Dickson Leow
A holding control strategy for diverging bus lines, Georgios Laskaris, Oded Cats, Erik Jenelius, Marco Rinaldi, and Francesco Viti
Railway capacity estimation considering vehicle circulation: Integrated timetable and vehicles scheduling on hybrid time-space networks, Zhengwen Liao, Haiying Li, Jianrui Miao, and Francesco Corman
Optimizing electric bus charging infrastructure considering power matching and seasonality, Xiaohan Liu, Xiaobo Qu, and Xiaolei Ma
Passenger-oriented rescheduling of trains and rolling stock for handling large passenger demand: linearized models with train capacity constraint, Sihui Long, Xiaojie Luan, and Francesco Corman
Competition between shared autonomous vehicles and public transit: A case study in Singapore, Baichuan Mo, Zhejing Cao, Hongmou Zhang, Yu Shen, and Jinhua Zhao
Modelling the impact of rail delays on passenger satisfaction, Fredrik Monsuur, Marcus Enoch, Mohammed Quddus, and Stuart Meek
A column generation-based approach for integrated vehicle and crew scheduling on a single metro line with the fully automatic operation system by partial supervision, Hanchuan Pan, Zhigang Liu, Lixing Yang, Zhe Liang, Qiang Wu, and Sijie Li
Spatial data analysis approach for network-wide consolidation of bus stop locations, Prasanta K. Sahu, Babak Mehran, Surya P. Mahapatra, and Satish Sharma
Sensitivity Analysis of the Transit Signal Priority Requesting Threshold and the Impact on Bus Performance and General Traffic, Michael H. Sheffield, Grant G. Schultz, David Bassett, and Dennis L. Eggett
Evaluation of Operating Schemes on Municipal Rail Transit with Express/Local Mode, Jing Teng, Hui Wang, Cen Zhang, and Shaojie Liu
Modeling and optimization of dedicated bus lanes space allocation in large networks with dynamic congestion, Dimitrios Tsitsokas, Anastasios Kouvelas, and Nikolas Geroliminis
Providing real-time bus crowding information for passengers: A novel policy to promote high-frequency transit performance, Pengfei Wang, Xuewu Chen, Yue Zheng, Long Cheng, Yinhai Wang, and Da Lei
A modular, adaptive, and autonomous transit system (MAATS): A in-motion transfer strategy and performance evaluation in urban grid transit networks, Jiaming Wu, Balázs Kulcsár, Selpi, and Xiaobo Qu
Measuring railway network performance considering accessibility levels in cities worldwide, Lan Yang, Sunyong Eom, and Tsutomu Suzuki
Impacts of School Reopening on Variations in Local Bus Performance in Sydney, Wenbo Yan, Hudson Yao, Linji Chen, Hema Rayaprolu, and Emily Moylan
An agent-based model for real-time bus stop-skipping and holding schemes, Lele Zhang, Jiangyan Huang, Zhiyuan Liu, and Hai L. Vu
Passenger itinerary inference model for congested urban rail networks, Yiwen Zhu, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, and Nigel H.M. Wilson
Submissions from 2020
A new model for efficiency evaluation of a bus fleet by window analysis in DEA and data mining, Somayeh Alizadeh and Mahsa Safi
Misguided quality incentives: The case of the Santiago bus system, Marco Batarce and Franco Ávila
Meaningful Modeling of Section Bus Running Times by Time Varying Mixture Distributions of Fixed Components, Beda Büchel and Francesco Corman
An analytical model for controlling disruptions on a metro line, Carlos E. Bueno-Cadena, Juan Carlos Munoz, and Alejandro Tirachini
Why most DRT/Micro-Transits fail – What the survivors tell us about progress, Graham Currie and Nicholas Fournier
Minutes Matter: A Bus Transit Service Reliability Guidebook, Alan Danaher, James Wensley, Amy Dunham, Ted Orosz, Ryan Avery, Daniel Turner, Kenneth Cobb, Kari Watkins, Carly Queen, Simon Berrebi, Marlene Connor, and Jim McLaughlin
Empirical Performance Analysis of Bus Speed and Delay at Intersections for Emerging Spot Improvement Programs, Graham Devitt, Mahmood Mahmoodi Nesheli, Ehab Diab, and Amer Shalaby
Importance – Performance Analysis (IPA) of bus service attributes: A case study in a developing country, Javad Esmailpour, Kayvan Aghabayk, Mohammad Abrari Vajari, and Chris De Gruyter
Scheduling synchronization in urban rail transit networks: Trade-offs between transfer passenger and last train operation, Xin Guo, Jianjun Wu, Huijun Sun, Xin Yang, Jian Gang Jin, and David Z.W. Wang
Review of bus rapid transit and branded bus service network performance in Australia, David A. Hensher, Yale Z. Wong, and Loan Ho
Fog-based dynamic traffic light control system for improving public transport, Sakhawat Hossan and Naushin Nower
Characterizing co-modality in urban transit systems from a passengers’ perspective, Naima Islam, Md Abu Sufian Talukder, Alex Hainen, and Travis Atkison
Accounting for air pollution emissions and transport policy in the measurement of the efficiency and effectiveness of bus transits, Chao-Chung Kang, Cheng-Min Feng, Bo-Ruei Liao, and Haider A. Khan
The impact of a passenger-safety-driven acceleration limit on the operation of a bus service, Xenia Karekla, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis, and Nick Tyler
The danger zone of express services: When increasing frequencies can deteriorate the level of service, Homero Larrain and Juan Carlos Muñoz
A robust and energy-efficient train timetable for the subway system, Pei Liu, Marie Schmidt, Qingxia Kong, Joris Camiel Wagenaar, Lixing Yang, Ziyou Gao, and Housheng Zhou
Evaluating the Dynamic Accessibility of Metro Systems in Overcrowded Conditions, Wei Li, Qin Luo, Samwel Zephanaih, and Zhaoran Liu
Assessing the vulnerability of urban rail transit network under heavy air pollution: A dynamic vehicle restriction perspective, Fei Ma, Yuan Liang, Kum Fai Yuen, Qipeng Sun, Yujie Zhu, Yixuan Wang, and Wenjing Shi
Petri nets conflicts resolution for performance evaluation and control of urban bus networks: a (max, +)-based approach, Y. Idel Mahjoub, A. Nait-Sidi-Moh, E. Chakir El Alaoui, and A. Tajer
Assessing the effect of a light rail transit system on road traffic travel time reliability, Sonu Mathew and Srinivas S. Pulugurtha
Analytical models for comparing operational costs of regular bus and semi-flexible transit services, Babak Mehran, Yongzhe Yang, and Sushreeta Mishra
Capacity-Constrained Network Performance Model for Urban Rail Systems, Baichuan Mo, Zhenliang Ma, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, and Jinhua Zhao
The adoption of grid transit networks in non-metropolitan contexts, Silvio Nocera, Alberto Fabio, and Federico Cavallaro
On incentives and optimal effort to improve bus transit performance, K. Obeng
Social Equity and Bus On-Time Performance in Canada’s Largest City, Matthew Palm, Amer Shalaby, and Steven Farber
Penalties as incentives for punctuality and regularity in tendered Swedish public transport, Roger Pyddoke
Application of a Hurdle Model with Random Effects to Explore the Relationship between Operational Characteristics and Safety Performance, Jianrong Qiu, David B. Logan, Jennifer Oxley, and Christopher Lowe
Assessing the Existing Bursa Light Rail Transportation System, Mehmet Rizelioğlu and Turan Arslan
Selection of intervention areas for improving travel condition of walk-accessed bus users with a focus on their accessibility: An experience in Bhubaneswar, Subhojit Roy and Debasis Basu
How do different payment schemes to operators affect public transport concessions? A microeconomic model, Juan Pablo Sepúlveda and Patricia Galilea
Equity of transit connectivity in Tennessee cities, Ishant Sharma, Sabyasachee Mishra, Mihalis M. Golias, Timothy F. Welch, and Christopher R. Cherry
Decomposing journey times on urban metro systems via semiparametric mixed methods, Ramandeep Singh, Daniel Hörcher, Daniel J. Graham, and Richard J. Anderson
Estimation of left behind subway passengers through archived data and video image processing, Charalampos Sipetas, Andronikos Keklikoglou, and Eric J. Gonzales
Economic assessment of a Dynamic Autonomous Road Transit system for Singapore, Shanshan Sun, Yiik Diew Wong, and Andreas Rau
COVID-19 and Public Transportation: Current Assessment, Prospects, and Research Needs, Alejandro Tirachini and Oded Cats
Public transport trajectory planning with probabilistic guarantees, Balázs Varga, Tamás Tettamanti, Balázs Kulcsár, and Xiaobo Qu
A multi-modal network equilibrium model with captive mode choice and path size logit route choice, Guangchao Wang, Anthony Chen, Songyot Kitthamkesorn, Seungkyu Ryu, Hang Qi, Ziqi Song, and Jianguo Song
Field Evaluation of Connected Vehicle-Based Transit Signal Priority Control under Two Different Signal Plans, Qinzheng Wang, Xianfeng (Terry) Yang, Blaine D. Leonard, and Jamie Mackey
Evaluating the effects of environmental factors and a transfer fare discount policy on the performance of an urban metro system, Wann-Ming Wey, Chao-Chung Kang, and Haider A. Khan
Collaborative optimization of last-train timetables with accessibility: A space-time network design based approach, Lixing Yang, Zhen Di, Maged M. Dessouky, Ziyou Gao, and Jungang Shi
Public Transit Service Reliability Assessment using Two-Fluid Model, Seungho Yang, Afnan Ahmad, Peter Y. Park, Gunho Sohn, and Jeremy Krygsman
Velocity prediction and profile optimization based real-time energy management strategy for Plug-in hybrid electric buses, Zhendong Zhang, Hongwen He, Jinquan Guo, and Ruoyan Han
Modular transit: Using autonomy and modularity to improve performance in public transportation, Zhenhao Zhang, Amirmahdi Tafreshian, and Neda Masoud
Evaluation of Subway Bottleneck Mitigation Strategies using Microscopic, Agent-Based Simulation, Jiali Zhou, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, and Saeid Saidi
Submissions from 2019
Stable and robust train routing in station areas with balanced infrastructure capacity occupation, Nikola Bešinović and Rob M.P. Goverde
Satisfaction with crowding and other attributes in public transport, Maria Börjesson and Isak Rubensson
Demonstration and evaluation of an intermittent bus lane strategy, Nicolas Chiabaut and Anais Barcet
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
A predictive headway-based bus-holding strategy with dynamic control point selection: A cooperative game theory approach, Zhuang Dai, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Zhuo Chen, Renyong Guo, and Xiaolei Ma
Public transportation in Great Britain viewed as a complex network, Robin de Regt, Christian von Ferber, Yurij Holovatch, and Mykola Lebovka
Reconciling transfer synchronization and service regularity: real-time control strategies using passenger data, Alexandra Gavriilidou and Oded Cats
Robust Stop-Skipping at the Tactical Planning Stage with Evolutionary Optimization, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis
Multi-constrained bus holding control in time windows with branch and bound and alternating minimization, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis and Oded Cats
Customer Journey Time Metrics for New York City Bus Service using Big Data, Edward Graves, Sunny Zheng, Lauren Tarte, Brian Levine, and Alla Reddy
Passenger-Centric Performance Metrics for the New York City Subway, Anne Halvorsen, Daniel Wood, Timon Stasko, Darian Jefferson, and Alla Reddy
Capacity Estimation of On-Street, Mid-Block, Off-Line Bus Stops Considering Yield-to-Bus Rule, Faheema Hisham, Jonathan M. Bunker, and Ashish Bhaskar
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
Sustainable benchmarking of a public transport system using analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy logic: a case study of Hyderabad, India, Pradeep Chaitanya Jasti and V. Vinayaka Ram
Real time bus travel time prediction using k-NN classifier, B. Anil Kumar, R. Jairam, Shriniwas S. Arkatkar, and Lelitha Vanajakshi
Multiline holding based control for lines merging to a shared transit corridor, Georgios Laskaris, Oded Cats, Erik Jenelius, Marco Rinaldi, and Francesco Viti
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
Bus transit network design with uncertainties on the basis of a metro network: A two-step model framework, Jinpeng Liang, Jianjun Wu, Ziyou Gao, Huijun Sun, Xin Yang, and Hong K. Lo
Robust bus bridging service design under rail transit system disruptions, Jinpeng Liang, Jianjun Wu, Yunchao Qu, Haodong Yin, Xiaobo Qu, and Ziyou Gao
Coordinated control method to self-equalize bus headways: an analytical method, Shidong Liang, Minghui Ma, Shengxue He, Hu Zhang, and Pengcheng Yuan
Passenger assignment and pricing strategy for a passenger railway transportation system, Dung-Ying Lin, Jian-Hua Fang, and Kuan-Ling Huang
Social-Transportation Analytic Toolbox (STAT) for Transit Networks, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Ran Wei, Liming Wang, and Aaron Golub
Considerations for Evaluating Automated Transit Bus Programs, Joseph Luna, Elizabeth Machek, and Sean Peirce
CB-Planner: A bus line planning framework for customized bus systems, Yan Lyu, Chi-Yin Chow, Victor C.S. Lee, Joseph K.Y. Ng, Yanhua Li, and Jia Zeng
Optimization-based operations control for public transportation service with transfers, Hend Manasra and Tomer Toledo
Optimal design of promotion based demand management strategies in urban rail systems, Zhenliang Ma and Haris N. Koutsopoulos
Estimation of Denied Boarding in Urban Rail Systems: Alternative Formulations and Comparative Analysis, Zhenliang Ma, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Yunqing Chen, and Nigel H.M. Wilson
Real-Time Optimal Scheduling Model for Transit System with Flexible Bus Line Length, Mingyang Pei, Peiqun Lin, and Junfeng Ou
Travel Time Reliability Measures Accommodating Scheduling Preferences of Travelers, Mojtaba Rajabi-Bahaabadi, Afshin Shariat-Mohaymany, and Shu Yang
Electrification of urban mobility: The case of catenary-free buses, Riccardo Scarinci, Alessandro Zanarini, and Michel Bierlaire
Ridership Ramp-Up? Initial Ridership Variation on New Rail Transit Projects, Jill Elizabeth Shinn and Carole Turley Voulgaris
Characterizing Journey Time Performance on Urban Metro Systems under Varying Operating Conditions, Ramandeep Singh, Daniel J. Graham, and Richard J. Anderson
New IDEAS for Transit: Transit IDEA Program Annual Report, Transportation Research Board
A data-driven hybrid control framework to improve transit performance, Wensi Wang, Jiaming Liu, Baozhen Yao, Yonglei Jiang, Yunpeng Wang, and Bin Yu
Simulation-based robust optimization of limited-stop bus service with vehicle overtaking and dynamics: A response surface methodology, Weitiao Wu, Ronghui Liu, Wenzhou Jin, and Changxi Ma
Passenger flow control with multi-station coordination in subway networks: algorithm development and real-world case study, Xinyue Xu, Haiying Li, Jun Liu, Bin Ran, and Lingqiao Qin