Submissions from 2024
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
Housing prices, buses and trams in Medellín (Colombia), Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López and Luz Yadira Gómez-Hernández
The flexible airport bus and last-mile ride-sharing problem: Math-heuristic and metaheuristic approaches, Ping He, Jian Gang Jin, and Frederik Schulte
Artificial intelligence for improving public transport: a mapping study, Å. Jevinger, C. Zhao, J. A. Persson, and P. Davidsson
Exploring the passengers’ socio-economic structure and its impact on the perception of railway infrastructures and services in Tripura, India, Stabak Roy, Gabriella Mazzulla, Samrat Hore, and Saptarshi Mitra
Predicting passenger satisfaction in public transportation using machine learning models, Elkin Ruiz, Wilfredo F. Yushimito, Luis Aburto, and Rolando de la Cruz
Im/mobilising bus travel as an infrastructure of care: student experiences in a mid-size city, Elaine Stratford and Jason Byrne
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
Inferring unable-to-board commuters for overcrowded buses using smart card data, Hong En Tan and Muhamad Azfar Ramli
A composite index for the evaluation of sustainability in Latin American public transport systems, Alexandra Velasco and Regine Gerike
Strategies to mitigate safety and associated problems at gated rail road grade crossing: A structural equation modelling approach, Adheesh Kumar Vivek, Somya Gupta, Tathagatha Khan, and Smruti Sourava Mohapatra
Submissions from 2023
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
Performance of urban rail transit: a review of measures and interdependencies, Farah A. Awad, Daniel J. Graham, Laila AitBihiOuali, and Ramandeep Singh
Evaluating the accessibility and availability of public services to reduce inequalities in everyday mobility, Tainá A. Bittencourt and Mariana Giannotti
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
Future scenarios for the European railway sector: A methodology based on past trends and a stated preference survey, Rubén Cordera, Roberto Sañudo, Eneko Echániz, Soledad Nogués, and Luigi dell’Olio
Travel Mode Choice Behavior for High-Speed Railway Stations Based on Multi-Source Data, Yajuan Deng, Yu Bai, Liangbin Cui, and Renjie He
Is it possible to attract private vehicle users towards public transport? Understanding the key role of service quality, satisfaction and involvement on behavioral intentions, Juan de Oña and Rocío de Oña
What do users want from transit? Qualitative analysis of current and potential users' perceptions, Gamal Eldeeb, Sean Sears, and Moataz Mohamed
Improving service qualities of cyclic line plans considering heterogeneous passenger origin-destination (OD) flow groups, Huaibin Hu, Yixiang Yue, Huiling Fu, and Jiax Li
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
Optimal locations and sizes of layover charging stations for electric buses, Dan McCabe and Xueang (Jeff) Ban
Sustainable development solutions of public transportation:An integrated IMF SWARA and Fuzzy Bonferroni operator, Sarbast Moslem, Željko Stević, Ilija Tanackov, and Francesco Pilla
Factors affecting public transport performance due to the COVID-19 outbreak: A worldwide analysis, Anastasia Nikolaidou, Aristomenis Kopsacheilis, Georgios Geogiadis, Theodoros Noutsias, Ioannis Politis, and Ioannis Fyrogenis
SentiHawkes: a sentiment-aware Hawkes point process to model service quality of public transport using Twitter data, Mohammad Masoud Rahimi, Elham Naghizade, Mark Stevenson, and Stephan Winter
Fare evasion in public transport: How does it affect the optimal design and pricing?, Raúl Ramos and Hugo E. Silva
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
Is the relationship between the perceived service quality and passenger loyalty linear or non-linear? A novel model-independent interpretation method is applied, Shichao Sun, Hui Zhang, Linlin Zhou, and Ke Wang
Sustainable urban mobility: Flexible bus service network design in the post-pandemic era, Zhijia Tan, Shuai Shao, Xiaofeng Zhang, and Wen-Long Shang
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
Substitutes or complements? Examining effects of urban rail transit on bus ridership using longitudinal city-level data, Chao Yang, Chengcheng Yu, Wentao Dong, and Quan Yuan
Network periodic train timetabling with integrated stop planning and passenger routing: A periodic time–space network construct and ADMM algorithm, Zhiyuan Yao, Lei Nie, Yixiang Yue, Zhenhuan He, Yu Ke, Yuxin Mo, and Hongda Wang
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
Linkage mechanism of public transport subsidy: considering passenger ridership, cost, fare and service quality, Chunqin Zhang, Meng Liu, Daoyou Wang, Aning Ni, Guangnian Xiao, and Weite Lu
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
Relating subjective ride quality ratings to objective measures, Raj Bridgelall
Probabilistic Modeling of Bus Rapid Transit Station Loading Area Selection for Bus Capacity Estimation, Jonathan M. Bunker
Fare evasion on public transport: Who, when, where and how?, Angel Cantillo, Sebastián Raveau, and Juan Carlos Muñoz
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
Unplanned Disruption Analysis and Impact Modeling in Urban Railway Systems, Xin Chen, Zhenliang Ma, and Zhibin Li
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
Accessibility and Public Transport Mobility for a Smart(er) Island: Evidence from Sardinia (Italy), Chiara Garau, Giulia Desogus, Benedetto Barabino, and Mauro Coni
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
Understanding the effects of travel demand management on metro commuters’ behavioural loyalty: a hybrid choice modelling approach, Ning Huan, Stephane Hess, and Enjian Yao
Computationally efficient train timetable generation of metro networks with uncertain transfer walking time to reduce passenger waiting time: A generalized Benders decomposition-based method, Yuting Hu, Shukai Li, Maged M. Dessouky, Lixing Yang, and Ziyou Gao
Transportation and quality of life: Evidence from Denmark, Jesper Hybel and Ismir Mulalic
Assessing commuters’ perceptions towards improvement of intermediate public transport as access modes to metro stations, Manaswinee Kar, Shubhajit Sadhukhan, and Manoranjan Parida
Formalization of East Jerusalem public transport: Mobility, politics and planning, Tamara Kerzhner
Efficiencies of the urban railway lines incorporating financial performance and in-vehicle congestion in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Yiping Le, Minami Oka, and Hironori Kato
Passenger satisfaction evaluation of public transport using alternative queuing method under hesitant linguistic environment, Qiang Li, Ran Liu, Jianshen Zhao, and Hu-Chen Liu
Measuring the Service Quality at Multimodal Public Transport Interchanges: A Needs-Driven Approach, Sumashni Moodley and Christoffel Venter
Public transport strategy and epidemic prevention framework in the Context of Covid-19, B. R. Naveen and Anjula Gurtoo
An optimization model for planning limited-stop transit operations, Mahmood Mahmoodi Nesheli, Siva Srikukenthiran, and Amer Shalaby
Rolling Stock Allocation and Timetabling for Urban Rail Transit Network with Multiple Depots, Fan Pu, Jiateng Yin, Yihui Wang, Shuai Su, Lixing Yang, and Tao Tang
Predicting the probability distribution of bus travel time to measure the reliability of public transport services, Léa Ricard, Guy Desaulniers, Andrea Lodi, and Louis-Martin Rousseau
Impact analysis of actual traveling performance on bus passenger’s perception and satisfaction, Rui Rong, Lishan Liu, Ning Jia, and Shoufeng Ma
Metro Speed Profile Optimization Considering Passenger Comfort: Model and Application, Dimitrios Roumpekas, Christina Iliopoulou, and Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou
Optimization of service frequency and vehicle size for automated bus systems with crowding externalities and travel time stochasticity, Mohammad Sadrani, Alejandro Tirachini, and Constantinos Antoniou
Loyalty and public transit: a quantitative systematic review of the literature, Thiago Carvalho dos Reis Silveira, Cezar Augusto Romano, and Tatiana Maria Cecy Gadda
Is higher quality always costly? Marginal costs of quality: Theory and application to railway punctuality, Andrew S. J. Smith and Manuel Ojeda Cabral
Necessary and sufficient conditions for attractive public Transport: Combined use of PLS-SEM and NCA, Alexandre Sukhov, Lars O. Olsson, and Margareta Friman
Headway variability in public transport: a review of metrics, determinants, effects for quality of service and control strategies, Alejandro Tirachini, Javiera Godachevich, Oded Cats, Juan Carlos Muñoz, and Jaime Soza-Parra
Public transport service quality: Policy prioritization strategy in the importance-performance analysis and the three-factor theory frameworks, Vu Anh Tuan, Nguyen Van Truong, Shimizu Tetsuo, and Nguyen Ngoc An
Public transport equity in Shenyang: Using structural equation modelling, Yilin Wang, Mengqiu Cao, Yuqi Liu, Runing Ye, Xing Gao, and Liang Ma
Travel satisfaction and travel well-being: Which is more related to travel choice behaviour in the post COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from public transport travellers in Xi’an, China, Yucheng Wang and Yanan Gao
Continuance intention of autonomous buses: An empirical analysis based on passenger experience, Yingying Yan, Shiquan Zhong, Junfang Tian, and Tong Li
Impact of Transit Quality on Anchor-Mediated Knowledge Economies Across Large U.S. Cities, Ahoura Zandiatashbar and Shima Hamidi
Integrated line planning and train timetabling through price-based cross-resolution feedback mechanism, Yongxiang Zhang, Qiyuan Peng, Gongyuan Lu, Qingwei Zhong, Xu Yan, and Xuesong Zhou
Submissions from 2021
Evaluation of bus bridging scenarios for railway service disruption management: a users’ delay modelling tool, Aya Aboudina, Alaa Itani, Ehab Diab, Siva Srikukenthiran, and Amer Shalaby
Critical Station Practical Capacity on a Bus Rapid Transit Line with Nonstopping Buses, Jonathan M. Bunker and Faheema Hisham
Demystifying service quality of Multimodal Transportation Hub (MMTH) through measuring users’ satisfaction of public transport, Vivek Chauhan, Akshay Gupta, and Manoranjan Parida
Improving quality of ordinary bus service in Kolkata city: Integrating conflicting requirements of users and transit operator, Munavar Fairooz Cheranchery and Bhargab Maitra
Attitudes to forced adoption of new technologies in public transportation services, Zsofia Cserdi and Zsofia Kenesei
Site characteristics associated with multi-modal trip generation rates at residential developments, Chris De Gruyter, Seyed Mojib Zahraee, and Nirajan Shiwakoti
How does private vehicle users perceive the public transport service quality in large metropolitan areas? A European comparison, Juan de Oña, Esperanza Estévez, and Rocío de Oña
A fuzzy Delphi analytic hierarchy model to rank factors influencing public transit mode choice: A case study, Sajad Ebrahimi and Raj Bridgelall
A large neighborhood search algorithm to optimize a demand-responsive feeder service, Bryan David Galarza Montenegro, Kenneth Sörensen, and Pieter Vansteenwegen
Does the measured performance of bus operators depend on the index chosen to assess reliability in contracts? An analysis of bus headway variability, Javiera Godachevich and Alejandro Tirachini
Evaluating Traffic Impacts of Permitting Trucks in Transit-Only Lanes, Seyma Gunes, Anne Goodchild, Chelsea Greene, and Venu Nemani
A novel origin destination based transit supply index: Exploiting the opportunities with big transit data, Etikaf Hussain, Ashish Bhaskar, and Edward Chung
Influence of bus stop land use characteristics on passenger waiting time satisfaction ‐ A case study in Guangzhou, Yucong Hu, Jiangyu Cao, and Jianrong Liu
Time–space analysis to evaluate cell-based quality of service in bus rapid transit station platforms through passenger-specific area, Sewmini Jayatilake, Jonathan M. Bunker, Ashish Bhaskar, and Marc Miska
Zonal-based flexible bus service under elastic stochastic demand, Enoch Lee, Xuekai Cen, and Hong K. Lo
Happy today, satisfied tomorrow: emotion—satisfaction dynamics in a multi-week transit user smartphone survey, Huyen T.K. Le and Andre L. Carrel
Diagnosing Obstacles to Speed and Reliability with High-Resolution Automatic Vehicle Locator Data: Bus Time Budgets, Eric Lind and Joseph Reid
Identification of key determinants of travel satisfaction for developing policy instrument to improve quality of life: An analysis of commuting in Delhi, Bandhan Bandhu Majumdar, Malavika Jayakumar, Prasanta K. Sahu, and Dimitris Potoglou
Investigating users' travel behaviours and perceptions of single-corridor BRT: Lessons from Lahore, Bilal Zia Malik, Zia ur Rehman, Ammad Hassan Khan, and Waseem Akram
Establishing service quality interrelations for Metro rail transit: Does gender really matter?, Jyoti Mandhani, Jogendra Kumar Nayak, and Manoranjan Parida
Influences on transit ridership and transit accessibility in US urban areas, Louis A. Merlin, Matan Singer, and Jonathan Levine
Modelling the impact of rail delays on passenger satisfaction, Fredrik Monsuur, Marcus Enoch, Mohammed Quddus, and Stuart Meek
An exact method for the integrated optimization of subway lines operation strategies with asymmetric passenger demand and operating costs, Pengli Mo, Andrea D'Ariano, Lixing Yang, Lucas P. Veelenturf, and Ziyou Gao
Investigating the complexity of perceived service quality and perceived safety and security in building loyalty among bus passengers in Vietnam – A PLS-SEM approach, Duy Q. Nguyen-Phuoc, Anh Thi Phuong Tran, Tiep Van Nguyen, Phuong Thi Le, and Diep Ngoc Su
Feeder-trunk and direct-link schemes for public transit: a model to evaluate the produced accessibility, Umberto Petruccelli and Antonello Racina
Identifying attributes of public transport services for urban tourists: A data-mining method, Yael Ram, Ayelet Gal-Tzur, and Amit Rechavi