Submissions from 2020
Workshop 6 report: Better service delivery through modal integration, Corinne Mulley and Barbara T. Yen
Perceived Quality of Bus Transit Services: A Route-Level Analysis, Connor Nikel, Gamal Eldeeb, and Moataz Mohamed
The adoption of grid transit networks in non-metropolitan contexts, Silvio Nocera, Alberto Fabio, and Federico Cavallaro
Micromobility and public transport integration: The current state of knowledge, Giulia Oaschger, Páraic Carroll, and Brian Caulfield
On incentives and optimal effort to improve bus transit performance, K. Obeng
Public Transport tendering and contracting arrangements in countries under regulatory transition: The case of Cyprus, Panagiotis Papaioannou, Georgios Georgiadis, Anastasia Nikolaidou, and Ioannis Politis
Why do cities invest in bus priority measures? Policy, polity, and politics in Stockholm and Copenhagen, Fredrik Pettersson and Claus Hedegaard Sørensen
Towards evening paratransit services to complement scheduled public transport in Cape Town: A driver attitudinal survey of alternative policy interventions, Christopher Plano, Roger Behrens, and Mark Zuidgeest
Assessment of transport equity to Central Business District (CBD) in Sydney, Australia, Zeyuan Qi, Samsung Lim, and Taha Hossein Rashidi
Shifting from Private to Public Transport using Duration-Based Modeling of a School-Based Intervention, Mariza Motta Queiroz, Carlos Roque, and Filipe Moura
Analysis of Transit Users’ Response Behavior in Case of Unplanned Service Disruptions, Ehsan Rahimi, Ali Shamshiripour, Ramin Shebanpour, Abolfazi Kouros Mohammadian, and Joshua Auld
Toll roads vs. Public transportation: A study on the acceptance of congestion-calming measures in Madrid, Fernando Romero, Juan Gomez, Antonio Paez, and José Manuel Vassallo
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
New Low-Cost Transport Planning Method for Small and Medium-Sized Cities in Developing Countries, Michael J. Saunders, Lasha Nakashidze, and Aleksei Lugovoi
Effects of capacity and transit improvements on traffic and transit operations, Andalib Shams and Milan Zlatkovic
Investigating the influence of latent lifestyles on productive travels: Insights into designing autonomous transit system, Ali Shamshiripour, Ehsan Rahimi, Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, and Joshua Auld
Demand-driven timetable and stop pattern cooperative optimization on an urban rail transit line, Pan Shang, Ruimin Li, and Liya Yang
Equity of transit connectivity in Tennessee cities, Ishant Sharma, Sabyasachee Mishra, Mihalis M. Golias, Timothy F. Welch, and Christopher R. Cherry
Economic assessment of a Dynamic Autonomous Road Transit system for Singapore, Shanshan Sun, Yiik Diew Wong, and Andreas Rau
The perception of service quality among paratransit users in Metro Manila using structural equations modelling (SEM) approach, Noriel Christopher C. Tiglao, Janna M. De Veyra, Niki Jon Y. Tolentino, and Mark Angelo Y. Tacderas
Analyzing network-wide patterns of rail transit delays using Bayesian network learning, Mehmet Baran Ulak, Anil Yazici, and Yun Zhang
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
Accessibility and proximity effects of bus rapid transit on housing prices: Heterogeneity across price quantiles and space, Linchuan Yang, Xiaoling Chu, Zhonghua Gou, Hongtai Yang, Yi Lu, and Wencheng Huang
Public Transit Service Reliability Assessment using Two-Fluid Model, Seungho Yang, Afnan Ahmad, Peter Y. Park, Gunho Sohn, and Jeremy Krygsman
Scaling Up Innovative Participatory Design for Public Transportation Planning: Lessons from Experiments in the Global South, Chris Zegras, Jonathan Leape, Juan Antonio Carrasco, Cristian Navas, Christo Venter, and Erik Vergel-Tovar
How does an open system bus rapid transit (BRT) facilitate inter and intra-modal mobility? A visual analytic analysis of Brisbane, Australia, Min Zhang, Barbara T.H. Yen, Corinne Mulley, and Neil Sipe
Increasing urban tram system efficiency, with battery storage and electric vehicle charging, Teng Zhang, Rui Zhao, Erica E.F. Ballantyne, and David A. Stone
Modular transit: Using autonomy and modularity to improve performance in public transportation, Zhenhao Zhang, Amirmahdi Tafreshian, and Neda Masoud
Calibrating travel time thresholds with cluster analysis and AFC data for passenger reasonable route generation on an urban rail transit network, Wei Zhu, Wei-li Fan, Amr M. Wahaballa, and Jin Wei
Longitudinal Analysis of Light Rail and Streetcar Safety in the United States, Abubakr Ziedan and Candace Brakewood
Promote transit via hardening first-and-last-mile accessibility: Learned from modeling commuters’ transit use, Ting Zuo, Heng Wei, and Na Chen
Submissions from 2019
Optimization of bus stop stations in Kuwait, Fahad AlRukaibi and Sharaf AlKheder
Practical Framework for Benchmarking and Impact Evaluation of Public Transportation Infrastructure: Case of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Rounaq Basu and Bianca Bianchi Alves
Transit Service Evaluation Standards, Daniel Boyle
Verkehrsverbund: The evolution and spread of fully integrated regional public transport in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Ralph Buehler, John Pucher, and Oliver Dümmler
Selecting an optimal contractual payment model for Istanbul's public bus operators using non-linear mathematical programming, Fatih Canıtez, Dilay Çelebi, Muhammet Deveci, and Yusuf Kuvvetli
User perception of transfers in multimodal urban trips: A qualitative study, Rocio Cascajo, Elena Lopez, Fernando Herrero, and Andres Monzon
Role of Gender in the Ridership of Public Transport Routes Involving Transfers, Subeh Chowdhury
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
An investigation of route-choice in integrated public transport networks by risk-averse users, Anthony Downward, Subeh Chowdhury, and Chapa Jayalath
The influence of passenger load, driving cycle, fuel price and different types of buses on the cost of transport service in the BRT system in Curitiba, Brazil, Dennis Dreier, Semida Silveira, Dilip Khatiwada, Keiko V. O. Fonseca, Rafael Nieweglowski, and Renan Schepanski
Bayesian network modeling explorations of strategies on reducing perceived transfer time for urban rail transit service improvement in different seasons, Xuesong Feng, Kemeng Li, Chuanchen Ding, and Weixin Hua
Strategic Communications Toolkit to Improve Support for Transit-Priority Projects, Christopher Forinash
Robust Stop-Skipping at the Tactical Planning Stage with Evolutionary Optimization, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis
Role of Public Transportation in a Natural Disaster State of Emergency Declaration, Jodi Godfrey, Gennaro Saliceto, and Roberta Yegidis
Mobility in cities: Distributional impact analysis of transportation improvements in São Paulo Metropolitan Region, Eduardo Amaral Haddad, Nancy Lozano-Gracia, Eduardo Germani, Renato S. Vieira, Shohei Nakamura, Emmanuel Skoufias, and Bianca Bianchi Alves
Cost, quality and scope of service: The case of the Israeli public bus sector, Yoram Ida, Joseph Berechman, and Sigal Levy
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
Exploring the potential of using real-time traveler data in public transport disturbance management, Åse Jevinger and Jan A. Persson
Assessing transit competitiveness in Seoul considering actual transit travel times based on smart card data, Hasik Lee, Ho-Chul Park, Seung-Young Kho, and Dong-Kyu Kim
Analysis of Public Transportation Competitiveness Based on Potential Passenger Travel Intentions: Case Study in Shanghai, China, Linbo Li, Mengfei Cao, Yufang Bai, and Ziqi Song
An incentive mechanism design for bus subsidy based on the route service level, Shuai Ling, Ning Jia, Shoufeng Ma, Yanfei Lan, and Wandi Hu
Social-Transportation Analytic Toolbox (STAT) for Transit Networks, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Ran Wei, Liming Wang, and Aaron Golub
Integrating network science and public transport accessibility analysis for comparative assessment, Ding Luo, Oded Cats, Hans van Lint, and Graham Currie
Impact of ride-pooling on the nature of transit network design, Sida Luo and Yu (Marco) Nie
Optimal design of promotion based demand management strategies in urban rail systems, Zhenliang Ma and Haris N. Koutsopoulos
Adapting Procurement Models for Electric Buses in Latin America, Jone Orbea, Sebastian Castellanos, Cristina Albuquerque, Ryan Sclar, and Berta Pinheiro
A Data-Driven Fault Diagnosis Method for Railway Turnouts, Dongxiu Ou, Rui Xue, and Ke Cui
The Politics of Prioritizing Transit on City Streets, Rosalie Singerman Ray
Modeling passengers’ loyalty to public transit in a two-dimensional framework: A case study in Xiamen, China, Shichao Sun and Zhengyu Duan
Identifying commonly used and potentially unsafe transit transfers with crowdsourcing, Elizabeth J. Traut and Aaron Steinfeld
Real-time short turning strategy based on passenger choice behavior, Wensi Wang, Zhihui Tian, Kewang Li, and Bin Yu
Exploring rider satisfaction with transit service in Indore, India: an application of the three-factor theory, Chen Zhang, Jason (Xinyu) Cao, Ajay Nagpure, and Siddharth Agarwal
Performance evaluation and obstacle factors analysis of urban public transport priority, Xiuxia Zhang, Qingnian Zhang, and Tingting Sun
Submissions from 2018
Optimal bus frequency for Kuwait public transportation company: A cost view, Sharaf AlKheder, Fahad AlRukaibi, and Areej Zaqzouq
The Potential of Demand-Responsive Transport as a Complement to Public Transport: An Assessment Framework and an Empirical Evaluation, María J. Alonso-González, Theo Liu, Oded Cats, Niels Van Oort, and Serge Hoogendoorn
Examining suitability of the integrated public transport system: A case study of Lahore, A. Aziz, M.S. Nawaz, M. Nadeem, and L. Afzal
Closing the Loop: Improving Transit through Crowdsourced Information, Sean J. Barbeau
Operational Impacts of Platform Doors in Metros, Alexander Barron, Shane Canavan, Richard Anderson, and Judith Cohen
Peer-to-Peer Priority Signal Control Strategy in a Connected Vehicle Environment, Byungho Beak, Mehdi Zamanipour, K. Larry Head, and Blaine Leonard
An analysis of changes to transit accessibility and equity after the opening of a bus rapid transit system in Hartford, Connecticut, Kelly Layne Bertolaccini
Measure dynamic individual spatial-temporal accessibility by public transit: Integrating time-table and passenger departure time, Shaowu Cheng, Bing Xie, Yiming Bie, Yaping Zhang, and Shen Zhang
Investigating perception of captive and choice riders for formulating service standards of ordinary and premium buses in Indian cities, Munavar Fairooz Cheranchery and Bhargab Maitra
An analytical model to conduct a person-based evaluation of transit preferential treatments on signalized arterials, Yashar Z. Farid, Eleni Christofa, and John Collura
Transit Vehicle Performance Analysis for Service Continuity/Termination: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach, S. Kiavash Fayyaz, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, and Ran Wei
A matheuristic for transfer synchronization through integrated timetabling and vehicle scheduling, João Paiva Fonseca, Evelien van der Hurk, Roberto Roberti, and Allan Larsen
Measuring the quality and diversity of transit alternatives, Alexis Frappier, Catherine Morency, and Martin Trépanier
Towards transfer synchronization of regularity-based bus operations with sequential hill-climbing, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis and Nitin Maslekar
The role of bus partnerships in Great Britain, John Godfrey and John Taylor
Investigating people’s preferences for car-free city centers: A discrete choice experiment, Amely Gundlach, Marius Ehrlinspiel, Svenja Kirsch, Alexander Koschker, and Julian Sagebiel
Using Twitter data for transit performance assessment: a framework for evaluating transit riders’ opinions about quality of service, N. Nima Haghighi, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Ran Wei, Wenwen Li, and Hu Shao
Low world oil prices: A chance to reform fuel subsidies and promote public transport? A case study for South Africa, Martin Henseler and Helene Maisonnave
Partnerships between operators and public transport authorities. Working practices in relational contracting and collaborative partnerships, Robert Hrelja, Tom Rye, and Caroline Mullen
Bus rapid transit (BRT): A simulation and multi criteria decision making (MCDM) approach, Reza Kiani Mavi, Navid Zarbakhshnia, and Armin Khazraei
An Arterial-Based Transit Signal Priority Control System, Hyeonmi Kim, Yao Cheng, and Gang-Len Chang
Estimation of rail passenger flow and system utilization with ticket transaction and gate data, Yung-Cheng (Rex) Lai, Chung-Wei Huang, and Yu-Ting Hsu
Measuring the impacts of new public transit services on space-time accessibility: An analysis of transit system redesign and new bus rapid transit in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Jinhyung Lee and Harvey J. Miller
Does public transport accessibility enhance subjective well-being? A study of the City of Johannesburg, Nahungu Lionjanga and Christo Venter
Mapping spatial accessibility of public transportation network in an urban area – A case study of Shanghai Hongqiao Transportation Hub, Rui Liu, Yun Chen, Jianping Wu, Tingbao Xu, Lei Gao, and Xizhi Zhao
First and Last Mile Assessment for Transit Systems, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Richard J. Porter, Milan Zlatkovic, Kiavash Fayyaz, and Jeffrey Taylor
Traffic dynamics in a bi-modal transportation network with information provision and adaptive transit services, Xinwei Li, Wei Liu, and Hai Yang
Constructing Spatiotemporal Load Profiles of Transit Vehicles with Multiple Data Sources, Ding Luo, Loïc Bonnetain, Oded Cats, and Hans van Lint
Not If, but When: Autonomous Driving and the Future of Transit, Jerome M. Lutin
Finding service quality improvement opportunities across different typologies of public transit customers, Jose Luis Machado, Rocio de Oña, Francisco Diez-Mesa, and Juan de Oña
Transit accessibility: A new definition of transit connectors, Ouassim Manout, Patrick Bonnel, and Louafi Bouzouina
How worthwhile is it to maximise customer satisfaction in public transport service contracts with a large captive user base? The case of South Africa, Mathetha Mokonyama and Christo Venter
Will bus travellers walk further for a more frequent service? An international study using a stated preference approach, Corinne Mulley, Chinh Ho, Loan Ho, David Hensher, and John Rose
Alleviating a subway bottleneck through a platform gate, Juan Carlos Muñoz, Jaime Soza-Parra, Arturo Didier, and Constanza Silva
Making Transit Count: Performance Measures that Move Transit Projects Forward, NACTO