Submissions from 2024
Exploring the causal effects of the built environment on travel behavior: a unique randomized experiment in Shanghai, Faan Chen and Adriano Borges Costa
Characterising travel behaviour patterns of transport hub station area users using mobile phone data, Long Cheng, Xinmei Cai, Zhuo liu, Zhiren Huang, Wendong Chen, and Frank Witlox
Is customized bus service for commuter segments the need of the hour? An integrated IPA-machine learning framework to redefine commuter segments based on quality expectations, Munavar Fairooz Cheranchery, Fathima Ansari, and Mubarak Ali
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
Transit access effectiveness in American metropolitan areas, Alireza Ermagun and Frank Witlox
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
Determinants of public transportation disability among older adults in China, Jiafeng Gu
Analysis of spatiotemporal transit accessibility and transit inequity of essential services in low-density cities, a case study of Nashville, TN, Jing Guo and Candace Brakewood
Mobility-as-a-Service and the role of multimodality in the sustainability of urban mobility in developing and developed countries, Chinh Q. Ho and Alejandro Tirachini
Enhancing the pedestrian environment and walking willingness around mass rapid transit (MRT) stations in Asian cities – an empirical study of Taipei, Kuo-Cheng Hsu, Shu-Wen Lin, Ying-Ying Leong, and Jia-Huey Yeh
Urban rail-bus-walk network service integration towards accessibility and heat exposure consideration: Models and column generation solution approaches, Xianting Huang, He Wei, Xiaodong Zhang, and Lu (Carol) Tong
Artificial intelligence for improving public transport: a mapping study, Å. Jevinger, C. Zhao, J. A. Persson, and P. Davidsson
Can taxi data inform bus route improvement? A case study in Shanghai, Yuxiong Ji, Minhang Zhou, Yu Shen, Xiaohu Zhang, and Yuchuan Du
Assessing mode-specific transport affordability in a car-centric city, Bogdan Kapatsila, Damian Collins, and Emily Grisé
Measuring the transit benefits of accessibility with the integration of transit systems, Hyun Kim, Keumsook Lee, Woo-kung Huh, and Yena Song
Passive transit accessibility: Modelling and application for transit gap analysis and station area assessment, Jinwoo (Brian) Lee and Samal Hama Salih
The impact of public transport priority policy on private car own and use: A study on the moderating effects of bus satisfaction, Jinpei Li, Liqun Xu, Fangcheng Tang, Di Yao, and Chunqin Zhang
A dynamic network data envelopment analysis cross-efficiency evaluation on the benefits of bus transit services in 33 Chinese cities, Meng Liu, Chunqin Zhang, Wenbin Huang, Mengmeng Wang, and Guangnian Xiao
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
Metro-line expansions and local air quality in Shenzhen: Focusing on network effects, Yifu Ou, Weize Song, and Kyung-Min Nam
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
Opinions matter: Contrasting perceptions of major public transit projects in Montréal, Canada, Lancelot Rodrigue, Aryana Soliz, Kevin Manaugh, Yan Kestens, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
A survey of Flex-Route Transit problem and its link with Vehicle Routing Problem, Reza Shahin, Pierre Hosteins, Paola Pellegrini, Pierre-Olivier Vandanjon, and Luca Quadrifoglio
Synergizing cycling and transit: Strategic placement of cycling infrastructure to enhance job accessibility, Lucas Spierenburg, Hans van Lint, and Niels van Oort
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
Unraveling the inconsistency in captive riders’ behaviors and attitudes within public transportation service usage: An integrated modeling approach, Shichao Sun, Linlin Zhou, Pingye Wang, and Hui Zhang
A study on the possibility of a BUS route network with connections based on an analysis of the efficiency of the BUS route network and resistance OF BUS users to transfer, Yu Suzuki, Satoru Hino, Takafumi Kanno, and Daigo Amemiya
The Road Less Traveled: Does Rail Transit Matter?, Tao Tao, Jason Cao, and Xinyi Wu
Evaluating the 15-minute city paradigm across urban districts: A mobility-based approach in Hamilton, New Zealand, Tianyi Wang, Yan Li, I-Ting Chuang, Weijie Qiao, Jing Jiang, and Lee Beattie
A real-time synchronous dispatching and recharging strategy for multi-line electric bus systems, Wensi Wang, Bin Yu, and Yu Zhou
Improving passenger travel efficiency through a dynamic autonomous non-stop rail transit system, Pei-Yang Wu, Ren-Yong Guo, Zhiyuan Lin, Ronghui Liu, and Pu Xu
Enhancing public transport use: The influence of soft pull interventions, Zahra Zarabi, E. Owen D. Waygood, Lars Olsson, Margareta Friman, and Anne-Sophie Gousse-Lessard
Optimising modular-autonomous-vehicle transit service employing coupling–decoupling operations plus skip-stop strategy, Jiyu Zhang, Ying-En Ge, Chunyan Tang, and Meisu Zhong
Submissions from 2023
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
Aging in place, stranded in space: An analysis of health care access via public transportation in Elliot Lake, Rachel Barber
A study of influence zone for railway stations of different hierarchy in the Indian Railways: analyzing passenger travel patterns, Rahul Vardhan Bhatnagar, Sewa Ram, and Rohan Vardhan
Social exclusion and the public bus system in Santiago, Chile, Carolina Busco, Felipe González, Paulina Carmona, Alex Cancino, and Borja Alonso
Adaptive transit design: Optimizing fixed and demand responsive multi-modal transportation via continuous approximation, Giovanni Calabrò, Andrea Araldo, Simon Oh, Ravi Seshadri, Giuseppe Inturri, and Moshe Ben-Akiva
Scheduling of Coupled Train Platoons for Metro Networks: A Passenger Demand-Oriented Approach, Simin Chai, Jiateng Yin, Andrea D'Ariano, Marcella Samà, and Tao Tang
City Transit Rider Tweets: Understanding Sentiments and Politeness, Subasish Das and Hamsa Abbas Zubaidi
Uncovering factors influencing railway passenger experiences through love and breakup declarations, Luce Drouet, Carine Lallemand, Vincent Koenig, Francesco Viti, and Kerstin Bongard-Blanchy
Re-evaluating roles and relationships between city authorities and informal public transport operators in sub-saharan africa: A comparative analysis of five cities, Timothy Durant, Mamaa Grant Monney, Michael Etonam Johnson, Kwame Kwakwa Osei, Joaquín Romero de Tejada, Herrie Schalekamp, and Ansumana Tarawally
Estimating Intermodal Transfer Barriers to Light Rail using Smartcard Data in Seattle, WA, James Eager, Chang-Hee Christine Bae, and Edward D. McCormack
What do users want from transit? Qualitative analysis of current and potential users' perceptions, Gamal Eldeeb, Sean Sears, and Moataz Mohamed
Effects on operating costs of adjusting bus departure times during peak-hour traffic in Sweden, Eva-Lena Eriksson, Helene Lidestam, and Lena Winslott Hiselius
Optimizing first- and last-mile public transit services leveraging transportation network companies (TNC), Rick Grahn, Sean Qian, and Chris Hendrickson
How much is accessibility worth? Utility-based accessibility to evaluate transport policies, Luis A. Guzman, Victor A. Cantillo-Garcia, Daniel Oviedo, and Julian Arellana
Improving service qualities of cyclic line plans considering heterogeneous passenger origin-destination (OD) flow groups, Huaibin Hu, Yixiang Yue, Huiling Fu, and Jiax Li
Zone prioritisation for transit improvement using potential demand estimated from smartcard data, Etikaf Hussain, Ashish Bhaskar, and Edward Chung
Developer-Led Bus Services in Greenfield Areas – Characteristics and Opportunities, Annette Kroen, Chris De Gruyter, Robin Goodman, and Steve Pemberton
A solar-powered bus charging infrastructure location problem under charging service degradation, Xiaohan Liu, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Zhengke Liu, Ruifeng Shi, and Xiaolei Ma
Networking and sustainable development of urban spatial planning: Influence of rail transit, Xiaotong Liu and Haishan Xia
Integrated design of a bus-bike system considering realistic route options and bike availability, Sida Luo and Yu (Marco) Nie
Robust collaborative passenger flow control on a congested metro line: A joint optimization with train timetabling, Yahan Lu, Lixing Yang, Hai Yang, Housheng Zhou, and Ziyou Gao
Should I Travel by Metro? Analyzing the Service Quality Perception of Elderly and Physically Disabled Passengers in Delhi, India, Jyoti Mandhani, Jogendra Kumar Nayak, and Manoranjan Parida
Decoding customer experiences in rail transport service: application of hybrid sentiment analysis, Dibya Nandan Mishra and Rajeev Kumar Panda
Mind the perception gap: The impact of bus rapid transit infrastructure on travelers’ perceptions of affective subjective well-being, Pablo Navarrete-Hernandez and P. Christopher Zegras
Shifted out: The well-being and justice implications of evening and night commuting, Matthew Palm, Jeff Allen, and Steven Farber
RIDIT-ISA Approach to Investigate Commuter Perceptions of an Existing Regional Transit System: A Case Study in the National Capital Region, India, Aditya Manish Pitale, Shubhajit Sadhukhan, and Manoranjan Parida
Fare evasion in public transport: How does it affect the optimal design and pricing?, Raúl Ramos and Hugo E. Silva
Cooperative bus holding and stop-skipping: A deep reinforcement learning framework, Joseph Rodriguez, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Shenhao Wang, and Jinhua Zhao
Big effort, little gain for users: lessons from the public transport system reform in Bogotá, Alvaro Rodriguez-Valencia, Daniel Rosas-Satizábal, and Darío Hidalgo
An exploration and importance-performance analysis of bus rapid transit systems’ service quality attributes: Evidence from an emerging economy, Muhammad Abid Saleem, Hanan Afzal, Farooq Ahmad, Hina Ismail, and Ninh Nguyen
Integration of safety quality function deployment in ferry services: Empirical study of Indonesia, Kuo-Chung Shang, Sheng Teng Huang, Erika Buchari, Taih-Cherng Lirn, and Rhaptyalyani Herno Della
Safety-oriented train timetabling and stop planning with time-varying and elastic demand on overcrowded commuter metro lines, Jungang Shi, Jing Yang, Lixing Yang, Lefeng Tao, Shengjie Qiang, Zhen Di, and Junhua Guo
Examining the non-linear effects of transit accessibility on daily trip duration: A focus on the low-income population, Sui Tao, Long Cheng, Sylvia He, and Frank Witlox
Crowdsourcing, digital co-production and collaborative governance for modernizing local public transport services: The exemplar of General Santos City, Philippines, Noriel Christopher C. Tiglao, Anne Clarice L. Ng, Mark Angelo Y. Tacderas, and Niki Jon Y. Tolentino
A people-environment framework in evaluating transport stress among rail commuters, Ka Ho Tsoi and Becky P.Y. Loo
Multi-objective multi-agent deep reinforcement learning to reduce bus bunching for multiline services with a shared corridor, Jiawei Wang and Lijun Sun
How does the state of bus operations influence passengers’ service satisfaction? A method considering the differences in passenger preferences, JianCheng Weng, JiangBo Yu, XiaoJian Di, PengFei Lin, Jing-Jing Wang, and Li-Zeng Mao
Sustainability in the evaluation of urban rail transit considering both firms and passengers perspectives: A dynamic network data envelopment analysis approach, Xiaoning Yang and Jing Liu
How public shared bike can assist first and last mile accessibility: A case study of the MRT system in Taipei City, Taiwan, Barbara T.H. Yen, Corinne Mulley, and Chia-Jung Yeh
Performance evaluation for demand responsive transport services: A two-stage bootstrap-DEA and ordinary least square approach, Barbara T.H. Yen, Corinne Mulley, and Chia-Jung Yeh
Integrated optimization of rolling stock allocation and train timetables for urban rail transit networks: A benders decomposition approach, Jiateng Yin, Fan Pu, Lixing Yang, Andrea D'Ariano, and Zhouhong Wang
Decentralized signal control for multi-modal traffic network: A deep reinforcement learning approach, Jiajie Yu, Pierre-Antoine Laharotte, Yu Han, and Ludovic Leclercq
A data-driven decision support tool for public transport service analysis and provision, Mohammad Maghrour Zefreh, Muhammad Atiullah Saif, Domokos Esztergár-Kiss, and Adam Torok
Collaborative optimization of rescue operation and timetable rescheduling under metro train failure, Qiaozhen Zhu, Yun Bai, Lingling Yang, Yao Chen, and Dongyang Yan
Submissions from 2022
Modeling car ownership and use in a developing country context with informal public transportation, Lara Al Otary, Maya Abou-Zeid, and Isam Kaysi
Investigating the Ridership Impact of New Light-Rail Transit and Arterial Bus Rapid Transit Lines in the Twin Cities, Simon Jonas Berrebi, Eric Lind, Candace Brakewood, Gregory Erhardt, and Kari Watkins
Towards transit equity in Detroit: An assessment of microtransit and its impact on employment accessibility, Tierra S. Bills, Richard Twumasi-Boakye, Andrea Broaddus, and James Fishelson
The impacts of formalization and integration of public transport in social equity: The case of Bogota, Juan Pablo Bocarejo and Luis Felipe Urrego
Passively wait for gridlock, or proactively invest in service? Strategies to promote car-to-transit switches among aspirational urbanites in rapidly developing contexts, Sandip Chakrabarti
Passenger-oriented traffic management integrating perimeter control and regional bus service frequency setting using 3D-pMFD, Saifei Chen, Hui Fu, Naiqi Wu, Yefei Wang, and Yan Qiao
An accessible and inclusive public transportation management response to COVID-19 through a co-creation process with people with disability. The case of Metro Barcelona, Monica Cerdan Chiscano and Simon Darcy
Stochastic programming model for integrating bus network design and dial-a-ride scheduling, James Chih-Yuan Chu, Albert Y. Chen, and Hsin-Hui Shih
All ridership is local: Accessibility, competition, and stop-level determinants of daily bus boardings in Portland, Oregon, Boer Cui, James DeWeese, Hao Wu, David A. King, David Levinson, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Impact of passengers' perceptions of social responsibility activities on the efficacy of PPP urban rail transit projects, Caiyun Cui, Xiaowei Han, Qianqian Zhou, Min Xu, Bo Xia, Martin Skitmore, and Yong Liu
Does intercity rail station placement matter? Expansion of the node-place model to identify station location impacts on Amtrak ridership, Christopher Cummings and Hani Mahmassani
Impact of TNC on travel behavior and mode choice: a comparative analysis of Boston and Philadelphia, Xiaoxia Dong, Erick Guerra, and Ricardo A. Daziano
Spatial and temporal variation of user satisfaction in public transport systems, Eneko Echaniz, Rubén Cordera, Andrés Rodriguez, Soledad Nogués, Pierlugi Coppola, and Luigi dell’Olio
Mobility-as-a-Service: Simulation of Multi-Modal Operations in Low-Density Cities, Mohamed El-Agroudy, Hatem Abou-Senna, and Essam Radwan
Consumers oriented investments in transit service quality improvements: The best bang for your buck, Gamal Eldeep and Moataz Mohamed
Has COVID-19 changed our loyalty towards public transport? Understanding the moderating role of the pandemic in the relationship between service quality, customer satisfaction and loyalty, Javad Esmailpour, Kayvan Aghabayk, Mohammad Aghajanzadeh, and Chris De Gruyter
Evaluating service performance of public bus transit service: a case study of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Mulugeta Girma
Importance performance analysis for evaluating city bus service quality in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Mulugeta Girma, Berhanu Woldetensae, Gebrechristos Nuriye, and Tebarek Lika
Locating park-and-ride facilities for resilient on-demand urban mobility, Elise Henry, Angelo Furno, Nour-Eddin El Faouzi, and David Rey
Exploring the frequency of public transport use among adolescents: a study in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Muhammad Zudhy Irawan, Faza Fawzan Bastarianto, Muhamad Rizki, Prawira Fajarindra Belgiawan, and Tri Basuki Joewono
Assessing commuters’ perceptions towards improvement of intermediate public transport as access modes to metro stations, Manaswinee Kar, Shubhajit Sadhukhan, and Manoranjan Parida
