Submissions from 2024
A novel route-based accessibility measure and its association with transit ridership, João Lucas Albuquerque-Oliveira, Francisco Moraes Oliveira-Neto, and Rafael H.M. Pereira
Discrete choice modeling with anonymized data, Milos Balac, Sebastian Hörl, and Basil Schmid
Aerial cable cars as a transit mode: a review of technological advances, service area characteristics, and societal impacts in Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago Cardona-Urrea, Jaime Soza-Parra, and Dick Ettema
Bus Line Shift Behaviour: Evidence of Influential Factors based on Smart Card Data, Leise Kelli de Oliveira, Cassiano Augusto Isler, Gustavo Balieiro, Tulio Lima Lessa Carvalho, and Marco Adriano Littig
Using system dynamics to understand long-term impact of new mobility services and sustainable mobility policies: an analysis pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wlisses B. Fontoura, Michael J. Radzicki, and Glaydston M. Ribeiro
Are mass transit projects and public transport planning overlooking uneven distributional effects? Empirical evidence from Sao Paulo, Brazil, Germán Freiberg, Mariana Giannotti, and Taina A. Bittencourt
Housing prices, buses and trams in Medellín (Colombia), Miquel-Àngel Garcia-López and Luz Yadira Gómez-Hernández
Safety performance of dedicated and preferential bus lanes using multivariate negative binomial models for Bogotá, Colombia, Jaime A. García M., Cristhian G. Lizarazo J., Sonia C. Mangones, Lenin Alexander Bulla-Cruz, and Enrique Darghan
Differences in commuting between employee and self-employed workers: The case of Latin America, José Ignacio Giménez-Nadal, Jorge Velilla, and Raquel Ortega-Lapiedra
Exploring the effects of public transport subsidies on satisfaction and ridership, Luis A. Guzman and Victor A. Cantillo-Garcia
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
Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on crowding aversion in public transport and transport mode choice: The case of Santiago, Chile, Vicente Iglesias and Sebastián Raveau
Merging transport network companies and taxis in Curitiba’s BRT system, Rafael Milani Medeiros, Fábio Duarte, Iva Bojic, Yang Xu, Paolo Santi, and Carlo Ratti
Optimizing park and ride location selection using the novel parsimonious full consistency method: Insights from Cuenca, Ecuador, Sarbast Moslem, Jairo Ortega, Josue Ortega, Monserrath Padilla, Djamila Ouelhadj, and Domokos Esztergár-Kiss
Beyond fare evasion: the everyday moralities of non-payment and underpayment on public transport, Daniel Muñoz, Kris Lee, and Anna Plyushteva
Ride-hailing and transit accessibility considering the trade-off between time and money, Rafael H.M. Pereira, Daniel Herszenhut, Marcus Saraiva, and Steve Farber
Predicting passenger satisfaction in public transportation using machine learning models, Elkin Ruiz, Wilfredo F. Yushimito, Luis Aburto, and Rolando de la Cruz
Optimizing block configuration and operation protocol for extra-long metro trains, Shiyu Shen, Jesus Osorio, and Yanfeng Ouyang
Uncovering gender-based violence and harassment in public transport: Lessons for spatial and transport justice, Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, B. Thomas E. Guerrero, and Lake Sagaris
Fair transport policies for older people: accessibility and affordability of public transport in Santiago, Chile, Giovanni Vecchio, Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Bryan Castillo, and Stefan Steiniger
A composite index for the evaluation of sustainability in Latin American public transport systems, Alexandra Velasco and Regine Gerike
Submissions from 2023
Relating emotions, psychophysiological indicators and context in public transport trips: Case study and a joint framework for data collection and analysis, Carlos Barría, C. Angelo Guevara, Angel Jmenez-Molina, and Sebastian Seriani
Assessing free-fare public transport in Chilean cities through optimization models, Paul Basnak and Ricardo Giesen
Crowding on public transport using smart card data during the COVID-19 pandemic: New methodology and case study in Chile, Franco Basso, Jonathan Frez, Hugo Hernández, Víctor Leiva, Raúl Pezoa, and Mauricio Varas
Evaluating the accessibility and availability of public services to reduce inequalities in everyday mobility, Tainá A. Bittencourt and Mariana Giannotti
Evaluating the impact of public transport travel time inaccuracy and variability on socio-spatial inequalities in accessibility, Carlos Kaue V. Braga, Carlos Felipe Grangeiro Loureiro, and Rafael H.M. Pereira
Social exclusion and the public bus system in Santiago, Chile, Carolina Busco, Felipe González, Paulina Carmona, Alex Cancino, and Borja Alonso
A recursive stochastic transit equilibrium model estimated using passive data from Santiago, Chile, Cristián E. Cortés, Pedro Donoso, Leonel Gutiérrez, Daniel Herl, and Diego Muñoz
The bus synchronization timetabling problem with dwelling times, Cristián E. Cortés, Cristiam Gil, Antonio Gschwender, and Pablo A. Rey
Understanding how individuals perceive changes in the built environment and the transport system after implementing a BRT system. The case of Barranquilla, Colombia, Alfreda J. Ojeda Diaz, Victor Cantillo, and Julián Arellana
The influence of job accessibility on individual labor income: Evidence for the City of Recife, Brazil, Leandro Batista Duarte, Raul da Mota Silveira Neto, and Diego Firmino Costa da Silva
A data fusion approach with mobile phone data for updating travel survey-based mode split estimates, Eduardo Graells-Garrido, Daniela Opitz, Francisco Rowe, and Jacqueline Arriagada
User expectations and perceptions towards new public transport infrastructure: evaluating a cable car in Bogotá, Luis A. Guzman, Victor A. Cantillo-Garcia, Julian Arellana, and Olga L. Sarmiento
How much is accessibility worth? Utility-based accessibility to evaluate transport policies, Luis A. Guzman, Victor A. Cantillo-Garcia, Daniel Oviedo, and Julian Arellana
Toward a new paradigm for urban mobility in Brazil: An empirical investigation in the city of Florianópolis, Pietro Lanzini, Daniel Pinheiro, and Eduardo Jara
Impact of Quito's first metro line on the accessibility to urban opportunities, Adriana Quezada Larriva, Daniel Orellana, María Laura Guerrero Balarezo, Javier Andrés García, Galo Cárdenas Villenas, and Pablo Osorio Guerrero
Local modeling as a solution to the lack of stop-level ridership data, Samuel de França Marques and Cira Souza Pitombo
Understanding what elements influence a bus driver to use headway regularity tools: case study of Santiago public transit system, Yerly Martínez-Estupiñan, Felipe Delgado, Juan Carlos Muñoz, and Kari E. Watkins
Estimation of trip purposes in public transport during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Santiago, Chile, Raúl Pezoa, Franco Basso, Paulina Quilodrán, and Mauricio Varas
Transit Benefit Index: A Comprehensive Index for Capturing Externalities in Transit Planning, Rudi Alexander Rendel and Chris Bachmann
Big effort, little gain for users: lessons from the public transport system reform in Bogotá, Alvaro Rodriguez-Valencia, Daniel Rosas-Satizábal, and Darío Hidalgo
Income inequality and rule-systems within public transport: A study of Medellín (Colombia) and Santiago (Chile), Nicolás Valenzuela-Levi
Sustainability evaluation methods for public transport with a focus on Latin American cities: A literature review, Alexandra Velasco Arevalo and Regine Gerike
Estimating public transport emissions from General Transit Feed Specification data, João Pedro Bazzo Vieira, Rafael H.M. Pereira, and Pedro R. Andrade
Submissions from 2022
Quantifying the relative importance of rapid transit implementation barriers: Evidence from ecuador, Juan F. Arias and Chris Bachmann
Unveiling route choice strategy heterogeneity from smart card data in a large-scale public transport network, Jacqueline Arriagada, Marcela A. Munizaga, C. Angelo Guevara, and Carlo Prato
Estimation of crowding factors for public transport during the COVID-19 pandemic in Santiago, Chile, Paul Basnak, Ricardo Giesen, and Juan Carlos Muñoz
ImpactAr Tool: Valuing Air Quality Health Impacts of Urban Bus Fleet Changes in Brazil, Luana Betti, Marina Caregnato Garcia, Eduardo Siqueira, and Henrique Evers
The impacts of formalization and integration of public transport in social equity: The case of Bogota, Juan Pablo Bocarejo and Luis Felipe Urrego
Fare evasion on public transport: Who, when, where and how?, Angel Cantillo, Sebastián Raveau, and Juan Carlos Muñoz
Modal equity of accessibility to healthcare in Recife, Brazil, Boer Cui, Genevieve Boisjoly, Bernardo Serra, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Identifying and visualizing operational bottlenecks and Quick win opportunities for improving bus performance in public transport systems, Francisco Garrido-Valenzuela, Diego Cruz, Marina Dragicevic, Alejandro Schmidt, Jaime Moya, Sebastián Tamblay, Juan C. Herrera, and Juan C. Muñoz
The bias in estimating accessibility inequalities using gravity-based metrics, Mariana Giannotti, Diego B. Tomasiello, and Taina A. Bittencourt
Analyzing public transport in the city of Buenos Aires with MobilityDB, Juan Godfrid, Pablo Radnic, Alejandro Vaisman, and Esteban Zimányi
The effect of dynamic lockdowns on public transport demand in times of COVID-19: Evidence from smartcard data, Benjamin Gramsch, C. Angelo Guevara, Marcela Munizaga, Daniel Schwartz, and Alejandro Tirachini
The effects of public transport subsidies for lower-income users on public transport use: A quasi-experimental study, Luis A. Guzman and Philipp Hessel
The impact of transit monetary costs on transport inequality, Daniel Herszenhut, Rafael H.M. Pereira, Licinio Da Silva Portugal, and Matheus Henrique de Sousa Oliveira
Lessons from the strategic design of a bimodal public transport system on a linear city, Sergio Jara-Díaz and Esteban Muñoz-Paulsen
Equity analysis in access to Public Transport through a Land Use Transport Interaction Model. Application to Bucaramanga Metropolitan Area-Colombia, Jhair Manrique, Ruben Cordera, Emilio G. Moreno, and Borja Alonso Oreña
A snapshot of the informal organization of public transport operators in the Caribbean: Tap-Tap services in Port-Au-Prince, Daniel Oviedo, Yisseth Scorcia, Pablo Guerrero, Michael Delandsheer, Raul Rodriguez-Molina, and Raphael Dewez
Which dots to connect? Employment centers and commuting inequalities in Bogotá, Javier Peña, Luis A. Guzman, and Julian Arellana
Long-term commuting times and air quality relationship to COVID-19 in São Paulo, P. J. Pérez-Martínez, J. A. Dunck, J. V. de Assunção, P. Connerton, A. D. Slovic, H. Ribeiro, and R. M. Miranda
Transit infrastructure and informal housing: Assessing an expansion of Medellín's Metrocable system, Héctor M. Posada and Andres García-Suaza
Fuel tax, cross subsidy and transport: Assessing the effects on income and consumption distribution in Brazil, Andressa Lemes Proque, Admir Antonio Betarelli Junior, and Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli
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
Accessibility in São Paulo: An individual road to equity?, Marcus Saraiva and Joana Barros
Making the links between ride-hailing and public transit ridership: Impacts in medium and large Colombian cities, Lynn Scholl, Felipe Bedoya, Orlando Sabogal-Cardona, and Daniel Oviedo
Assessment of decarbonization alternatives for passenger transportation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tatiana Bruce da Silva, Patrícia Baptista, Carlos A. Santos Silva, and Luan Santos
Public transportation and fear of crime at BRT Systems: Approaching to the case of Barranquilla (Colombia) through integrated choice and latent variable models, Jose Soto, Mauricio Orozco-Fontalvo, and Sergio A. Useche
Public transport reliability across preferences, modes, and space, Jaime Soza-Parra, Sebastián Raveau, and Juan Carlos Muñoz
A simulation-optimization framework for traffic disturbance recovery in metro systems, M. L. Tessitore, M. Samà, A. D’Ariano, L. Hélouet, and D. Pacciarelli
Characterising public transport shifting to active and private modes in South American capitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jose Agustin Vallejo-Borda, Ricardo Giesen, Paul Basnak, José P. Reyes, Beatriz Mella Lira, Matthew J. Beck, David A. Hensher, and Juan de Dios Ortúzar
Mapping the transit network of greater Cartagena with mobile phones: Coverage, accessibility, and informality, C. Erik Vergel-Tovar, Jonathan Leape, Mónica Villegas Carrasquilla, Maria Claudia Peñas Arana, Daniel Toro Gonzalez, Leonardo Canon Rubiano, Eliana Salas Barón, and Paulo Martinez
Daily travel behaviors and transport mode choice of older adults in Mexico City, Jessica Villena-Sanchez, E. Eric Boschmann, and Sara Avila-Forcada
The travel, equity and wellbeing impacts of transit-oriented development in Global South, Fenglong Wang, Yuya Zheng, Wenjie Wu, and Donggen Wang
Submissions from 2021
An exact solution approach for an electric bus dispatch problem, Matías Alvo, Gustavo Angulo, and Mathias A. Klapp
Before-and-after evaluation of a bus network improvement using performance indicators from historical smart card data, Renato Arbex, Claudio Barbieri da Cunha, and Roberto Speicys
Urban transport planning and access inequalities: A tale of two Colombian cities, Julian Arellana, Daniel Oviedo, Luis A. Guzman, and Vilma Alvarez
Evaluating the Role and Evolution of Factors Influencing Rapid Transit Planning in Ecuador, Juan F. Arias and Chris Bachmann
The unequal impacts of time, cost and transfer accessibility on cities, classes and races, Tainá A. Bittencourt and Mariana Giannotti
Understanding Transantiago Users’ Motivations for Paying or Evading Payment of Bus Fares, Carolina Busco, Felipe González, Yamil Jaqueih, Filipe Jiménez, and Borja Alonso
Service climate antecedents of transit passenger complaints and temporary opt-out: The case study of Brasília, Pedro Henrique da Silva, Sigal Kaplan, and Pastor Willy Gonzales Taco
A*-guided heuristic for a multi-objective bus passenger Trip Planning Problem, Sylvain M.R. Fournier, Eduardo Otte Hülse, and Éder Vasco Pinheiro
Inequalities in transit accessibility: Contributions from a comparative study between Global South and North metropolitan regions, Mariana Giannotti, Joana Barros, Diego B. Tomasiello, Duncan Smith, Bruna Pizzol, Beatriz M. Santos, Chen Zhong, Yao Shen, Eduardo Marques, and Michael Batty
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
A hybrid discrete choice model to understand the effect of public policy on fare evasion discouragement in Bogotá's Bus Rapid Transit, Luis A. Guzman, Julian Arellana, and José Pablo Camargo
BRT fare elasticities from smartcard data: Spatial and time-of-the-day differences, Luis A. Guzman, Carlos Beltran, Jorge A. Bonilla, and Santiago Gomez Cardona
BRT system in Bogotá and urban effects: More residential land premiums?, Luis A. Guzman, Hernán Darío Enríquez, and Phillip Hessel
Density-oriented public transport corridors: Decoding their influence on BRT ridership at station-level and time-slot in Bogotá, Luis A. Guzman and Santiago Gomez Cardona
Car users’ attitudes towards an enhanced bus system to mitigate urban congestion in a developing country, David José Ahouagi Vaz de Magalhães and Carlos Rivera-Gonzalez
Testing theft transmission in and around São Paulo metro stations, Brazil, Gustavo Moreira and Vania Ceccato
The impact of public transport expansions on informality: The case of the São Paulo Metropolitan Region, Ana I. Moreno-Monroy and Frederico Roman Ramos
Big data for big issues: Revealing travel patterns of low-income population based on smart card data mining in a global south unequal city, Caio Pieroni, Mariana Giannotti, Bianca B. Alves, and Renato Arbex
Spatial and socio-economic analysis of public transport systems in large cities: A case study for Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Anderson Paulo Rudke, Jorge Alberto Martins, Alex Mota dos Santos, Witan Pereira Silva, Nathan F. da Silva Caldana, Vinicius A.S. Souza, Ronaldo Adriano Alves, and Taciana T. de Almeida Albuquerque
Public transport accessibility accounting for level of service and competition for urban opportunities: An equity analysis for education in Santiago de Chile, Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Juan Carlos Muñoz, and Ricardo Hurtubia
Estimation and prediction of dynamic matrix travel on a public transport corridor using historical data and real-time information, Felipe Zúñiga, Juan Carlos Muñoz, and Ricardo Giesen
Submissions from 2020
On the effect of operational service attributes on transit satisfaction, Jaime Allen, Juan Carlos Muñoz, and Juan de Dios Ortúzar
Give public transit a chance: A comparative analysis of competitive travel time in public transit modal share, Marcelo Altieri, Cecília Silva, and Shintaro Terabe
Estimating the influence of crowding and travel time variability on accessibility to jobs in a large public transport network using smart card big data, Renato Arbex and Claudio B. Cunha
Why do paratransit operators resist participation in bus rapid transit? Case evidence from Bogota, Mexico City, Johannesburg and Lagos, Emmanuel Theodore Asimeng and Dirk Heinrichs