Submissions from 2021
Spatial data analysis approach for network-wide consolidation of bus stop locations, Prasanta K. Sahu, Babak Mehran, Surya P. Mahapatra, and Satish Sharma
Optimal quality incentive scheme design in contracting out public bus services, Dian Sheng, Qiang Meng, and Zhi-Chun Li
Assessing travel satisfaction in public transport: A configurational approach, Alexandre Sukhov, Katrin Lättman, Lars E. Olsson, Margareta Friman, and Satoshi Fujii
Modeling Bus Capacity for Bus Stops Using Queuing Theory and Diffusion Approximation, Chao Wang, Weijie Chen, Yueru Xu, and Zhirui Ye
Revisiting the interactions between bus service quality, car ownership and mode use: A case study in Changzhou, China, Di Yao, Liqun Xu, Chunqin Zhang, and Jinpei Li
Towards Sustainable Mobility with Transit-Oriented Development (TOD): Understanding Greater Kuala Lumpur, Jeffrey Boon Hui Yap, Chia Yee Chua, and Martin Skitmore
Integrating transit systems with ride-sourcing services: A study on the system users’ stochastic equilibrium problem, Yufeng Zhang and Alireza Khani
Submissions from 2020
Hybrid markets in public transport – contract design, performance and conflicts, Gunnar Alexandersson, Staffan Hultén, and Juan J. Jardón
Enhancing the use of transit in arid regions: Case of Abu Dhabi, Mayada Adnan Almardood and Praveen Maghelal
Misguided quality incentives: The case of the Santiago bus system, Marco Batarce and Franco Ávila
Heterogeneity in desired bus service quality from users’ and potential users’ perspective, Maria Grazia Bellizzi, Luigi dell'Olio, Laura Eboli, and Gabriella Mazzulla
Flexibility in contract design - is that possible?, Carolina Camén, Panagiota Tsaxiri, Malin Aldenius, and Helene Lidestam
Application of an incentive for bus drivers to achieve an improvement in the quality of service, Alejandra Chaparro, Patricia Galilea, Juan Carlos Muñoz, and Joaquín Poblete
Determinants of intention-to-use first-/last-mile automated bus service, Pei Nen Esther Chee, Yusak O. Susilo, and Yiik Diew Wong
Understanding the mediator role of satisfaction in public transport: A cross-country analysis, Juan de Oña
Perception of Public Transport Quality of Service among Regular Private Vehicle Users in Madrid, Spain, Juan de Oña, Esperanza Estévez, and Rocio de Oña
Evaluation of service quality in public bus transportation using interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy QFD methodology, Muhammet Deveci, Sultan Ceren Öner, Faith Canıtez, and Mahir Öner
Quantifying preference heterogeneity in transit service desired quality using a latent class choice model, Gamal Eldeeb and Moataz Mohamed
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
A conceptual framework for incorporating competitiveness into network-level transit quality metrics, Anna Gartsman, Alissa Zimmer, Joaquin Osio-Norgaard, and Monisha Reginald
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
Model-based quality assurance in railway infrastructure planning, Marco Häußler and André Borrmann
Mapping Universal Access Experiences for Public Transport in Latin America, Dario Hidalgo, Camilo Urbano, Claudio Olivares, Natalia Tinjacá, José Manuel Pérez, Carlos Felipe Pardo, Manuel Rodríguez, Isabel Granada, Christian Navas, Claudia Glen, Camila Ramos, María Clara Gutierrez, and Lauramaría Pedraza
Identifying spatio-temporal patterns of bus bunching in urban networks, Christina A. Iliopoulou, Christina P. Milioti, Eleni I. Vlahogianni, and Konstantinos L. Kepaptsoglou
Reforming Public Transport Planning and Delivery, International Transport Forum
Do motorcycle-based ride-hailing apps threaten bus ridership? A hybrid choice modeling approach with latent variables, Muhammad Zudhy Irawan, Prawira Fajarindra Belgiawan, Tri Basuki Joewono, and Nurvita I.M. Simanjuntak
To compete or not compete: exploring the relationships between motorcycle-based ride-sourcing, motorcycle taxis, and public transport in the Jakarta metropolitan area, Muhammad Zudhy Irawan, Prawira Fajarindra Belgiawan, Ari Krisna Mawira Tarigan, and Fajar Wijanarko
Capacity-Constrained Bus Bridging Optimization Framework, Alaa Itani, Siva Srikukenthiran, and Amer Shalaby
Assessment of the transit ridership prediction errors using AVL/APC data, You-Jin Jung and Jeffrey M. Casello
Exploring behavioral heterogeneities of metro passenger’s travel plan choice under unplanned service disruption with uncertainty, Binbin Li, Enjian Yao, Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Ying Tang, and Shasha Liu
Evaluating the Dynamic Accessibility of Metro Systems in Overcrowded Conditions, Wei Li, Qin Luo, Samwel Zephanaih, and Zhaoran Liu
Prioritizing Metro Service Quality Attributes to Enhance Commuter Experience: TOPSIS Ranking and Importance Satisfaction Analysis Methods, Bandhan Bandhu Majumdar, Dilum Dissanayake, Avanindra Singh Rajput, Yong Qi Saw, and Prasanta Kumar Sahu
Interrelationships among service quality factors of Metro Rail Transit System: An integrated Bayesian networks and PLS-SEM approach, Jyoti Mandhani, Jogendra Kumar Nayak, and Manoranjan Parida
A multi-criteria assessment of the passengers’ level of comfort in urban railway rolling stock, Alireza Mohammadi, Luis Amador-Jimenez, and Fuzhan Nasiri
Minibus taxis in Kampala's paratransit system: Operations, economics and efficiency, Innocent Ndibatya and M. J. Booysen
Influence mechanism of the corporate image on passenger satisfaction with public transport in China, Anning Ni, Chunqin Zhang, Yuting Hu, Weite Lu, and Hongwei Li
Perceived Quality of Bus Transit Services: A Route-Level Analysis, Connor Nikel, Gamal Eldeeb, and Moataz Mohamed
Public Transport tendering and contracting arrangements in countries under regulatory transition: The case of Cyprus, Panagiotis Papaioannou, Georgios Georgiadis, Anastasia Nikolaidou, and Ioannis Politis
Bus ridership and service reliability: The case of public transportation in Western Massachusetts, Jayash Paudel
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
Sequenced Ordered Logit Model Considering Latent Variables for Determining Trip Satisfaction of Metro Passengers, Tara Saeidi, Mahmoud Mesbah, and Meeghat Habibian
Public bus service contracting: A critical review and future research opportunities, Dian Sheng and Qiang Meng
Variable-Capacity Operations with Modular Transits for Shared-Use Corridors, Xiaowei Shi, Zhiwei Chen, Mingyang Pei, and Xiaopeng Li
Customer satisfaction in urban rail: a study on transferability of structural equation models, Amirali Soltanpour, Mahmoud Mesbah, and Meeghat Habibian
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
Measuring the quality of the first/last mile connection to public transport, Christoffel J. Venter
Bus transit subsidy under China’s transit metropolis initiative: The case of Shenzhen, Jiawen Yang, Huaqing Zhou, and Meng Zhou
Submissions from 2019
Modeling bus bunching using massive location and fare collection data, Jacqueline Arriagada, Antonio Gschwender, Marcela A. Munizaga, and Martin Trépanier
Satisfaction with crowding and other attributes in public transport, Maria Börjesson and Isak Rubensson
Verkehrsverbund: The evolution and spread of fully integrated regional public transport in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Ralph Buehler, John Pucher, and Oliver Dümmler
Time Available at Destination: Tool to Evaluate the Quality of Public Transport Service and a Determinant of Mode Choice, Minghui Chen, Stéphanie Souche Le Corvec, and Alain Bonnafous
Operational design for shuttle systems with modular vehicles under oversaturated traffic: Discrete modeling method, Zhiwei Chen, Xiaopeng Li, and Xuesong Zhou
Role of Gender in the Ridership of Public Transport Routes Involving Transfers, Subeh Chowdhury
Transit network design for small-medium size cities, Ernesto Cipriani, Gaetano Fusco, Sergio Maria Patella, Marco Petrelli, and Luca Quadrifoglio
Passenger Travel Time Reliability for Multimodal Public Transport Journeys, Malvika Dixit, Ties Brands, Niels van Oort, Oded Cats, and Serge Hoogendoorn
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
Strategic Communications Toolkit to Improve Support for Transit-Priority Projects, Christopher Forinash
Providing public transport priority in the perimeter of urban networks: A bimodal strategy, He Haitao, Kaidi Yang, Hong Liang, Monica Menendez, and S. Ilgin Guler
A case study in spatial-temporal accessibility for a transit system, John C. Handley, Lina Fu, and Laura L. Tupper
A closed form railway line delay propagation model, Steven Harrod, Fabrizio Cerreto, and Otto Anker Nielsen
Capacity Estimation of On-Street, Mid-Block, Off-Line Bus Stops Considering Yield-to-Bus Rule, Faheema Hisham, Jonathan M. Bunker, and Ashish Bhaskar
The relationship between norms, satisfaction and public transport use: A comparison across six European cities using structural equation modelling, Jesper Bláfoss Ingvardson and Otto Anker Nielsen
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
On the interaction between public transport demand, service quality and fare for social welfare optimisation, Zhihua Jin, Jan-Dirk Schmöcker, and Saeed Maadi
More than travel time: New accessibility index capturing the connectivity of transit services, Junghwan Kim and Bumsoo Lee
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
Delay and disruption management in local public transportation via real-time vehicle and crew re-scheduling: a case study, Federico Malucelli and Emanuele Tresoldi
Review of asset management for metro systems: challenges and opportunities, Alireza Mohammadi, Luis Amador-Jimenez, and Fuzhan Nasiri
Understanding the factors that influence the probability and time to streetcar bunching incidents, Paula Nguyen, Ehab Diab, and Amer Shalaby
Analyzing Bus Passengers’ Satisfaction in Dhaka using Discrete Choice Models, Mohammed Quddus, Farzana Rahman, Fredrik Monsuur, Juan de Oña, and Marcus Enoch
Modeling passengers’ loyalty to public transit in a two-dimensional framework: A case study in Xiamen, China, Shichao Sun and Zhengyu Duan
Big data in public transportation: a review of sources and methods, Timothy F. Welch and Alyas Widita
Combined line planning and train timetabling for strongly heterogeneous railway lines with direct connections, Fei Yan and Rob M.P. Goverde
Assessing bus transit service from the perspective of elderly passengers in Harbin, China, Yalong Yuan, Min Yang, Jingxian Wu, Soora Rasouli, and Da Lei
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
Evaluating passenger satisfaction index based on PLS-SEM model: Evidence from Chinese public transport service, Chunqin Zhang, Yong Liu, Weite Lu, and Guangnian Xiao
Submissions from 2018
Modelling service-specific and global transit satisfaction under travel and user heterogeneity, Jaime Allen, Juan Carlos Muñoz, and Juan de Dios Ortúzar
Automatic recognition of “low-quality” vehicles and bus stops in bus services, Benedetto Barabino
High volume bus stop upstream average waiting time for working capacity and quality of service, Jonathan M. Bunker
Impact assessment of the Internet of Things on feeder transit performance, Shailesh Chandra, R. Thirumaleswara Naik, and Luana Galbeno
Transit network design for small-medium size cities, Ernesto Cipriani, Gaetano Fusco, Sergio Maria Patella, Marco Petrelli, and Luca Quadrifoglio
Users' satisfaction evolution of a metropolitan transit system in a context of economic downturn, Rocío de Oña, Joao de Abreu e Silva, Christian Muñoz-Monge, and Juan de Oña
Subway Service Down Again? Assessing the Effects of Subway Service Interruptions on Local Surface Transit Performance, Ehab Diab and Amer Shalaby
Bayesian networks and structural equation modelling to develop service quality models: Metro of Seville case study, Francisco Díez-Mesa, Rocio de Oña, and Juan de Oña
Formative and reflective measurement models for analysing transit service quality, Laura Eboli, Carmen Forciniti, and Gabriella Mazzulla
Spatial variation of the perceived transit service quality at rail stations, Laura Eboli, Carmen Forciniti, and Gabriella Mazzulla
Transit Vehicle Performance Analysis for Service Continuity/Termination: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach, S. Kiavash Fayyaz, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, and Ran Wei
Determinants of loyalty to public transit: A model integrating Satisfaction-Loyalty Theory and Expectation-Confirmation Theory, Xue-mei Fu, Jiang-hua Zhang, and Felix T.S. Chan
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
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
Moving Minds: The Next Generation of Real-Time Transit Information in San Francisco, Jason Lee, William Tyner, and Nealay Vasavda
Stochastic Model of Train Running Time and Arrival Delay: A Case Study of Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Rail, Javad Lessan, Liping Fu, Chao Wen, Ping Huang, and Chaozhe Jiang
An incentive-based optimizing strategy of service frequency for an urban rail transit system, Changle Li, Jiao Ma, Tom H. Luan, Xun Zhou, and Lei Xiong
Public transportation competitiveness analysis based on current passenger loyalty, Linbo Li, Yufang Bai, Ziqi Song, Anthony Chen, and Bing Wu
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
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
