Submissions from 2023
A Qualitative Assessment of the Multimodal Passenger Transportation System Response to COVID-19 in New York City, Luis Abreu and Alison Conway
Assessment of the First-and-Last-Mile Problem in Underserved Communities: Case Study in Camden City, NJ, Ruqaya Emad Alfaris and Mohammad Jalayer
Transferability of a calibrated microscopic simulation model parameters for operational assessment of transit signal priority, MD Sultan Ali, Henrick Haule, John Kodi, Priyanka Alluri, and Thobias Sando
Are low-income residents disproportionately moving away from transit?, Jeff Allen, Christopher D. Higgins, Daniel Silver, and Steven Farber
Commuter Rail Electrifications That Never Were and What They Teach Us, John G. Allen and Gregory L. Newmark
Assessing cost-effectiveness of alternative bus technologies: Evidence from US transit agencies, Alessandro Avenali, Giuseppe Catalano, Mirko Giagnorio, and Giorgio Matteucci
Aging in place, stranded in space: An analysis of health care access via public transportation in Elliot Lake, Rachel Barber
Bike share and user motivation: exploring trip substitution choices among bike share users in a North American city, Hugh Bartling
Integrating Public Transit and Shared Micromobility Payments to Improve Transportation Equity in Seattle, WA, Kristen Beale, Bogdan Kapatsila, and Emily Grisé
Does ridesourcing respond to unplanned rail disruptions? A natural experiment analysis of mobility resilience and disparity, Elisa Borowski, Jason Soria, Joseph Schofer, and Amanda Stathopoulos
Developing a multi-criteria prioritization tool to catalyze TOD on publicly owned land areas, Mingming Cai, Arthur Acolin, and Anne Vernez Moudon
Ridership and Operations Visualization Engine: An Integrated Transit Performance and Passenger Journey Visualization Engine, Nicholas S. Caros, Xiaotong Guo, Anson Stewart, John Attanucci, Nicholas Smith, Dimitris Nioras, Anna Gartsman, and Alissa Zimmer
Multimodal Intersection Signal Timing Considerations Framework, Performance Measures, and Case Study, Burak Cesme, Andrew Hayes, Shuchun Wang, Shannon Warchol, Alice Root, Kush Bhagat, and Nagui Rouphail
Revisit employer-based travel demand management: A longitudinal analysis, Peng Chen and Xiankui Yang
Impacts of built environment on travel behaviors of Generation Z: a longitudinal perspective, Xiaohong Chen, Tianhao Li, and Quan Yuan
Explaining US travel behavior with perceived threat of pandemic, consumer sentiment, and economic policy uncertainty, Junwook Chi
Mitigating Increased Driving after the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis on Mode Share, Travel Demand, and Public Transport Capacity, Francesca Ciuffini, Simone Tengattini, and Alexander York Bigazzi
“Tram Wrong Way” International Experience and Mitigation of Track Switch Errors, Graham Currie, James Reynolds, David Logan, and Kristie L. Young
Three’s a crowd? Examining evolving public transit crowding standards amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Tianxing Dai and Brian D. Taylor
Priority-Based Traffic Signal Coordination System With Multi-Modal Priority and Vehicle Actuation in a Connected Vehicle Environment, Debashis Das, Niraj Vasant Altekar, and K. Larry Head
City Transit Rider Tweets: Understanding Sentiments and Politeness, Subasish Das and Hamsa Abbas Zubaidi
Transit and Active Transportation Use for Non-Commute Travel Among Portland Transit-Oriented Development Residents, Jennifer Dill and Nathan McNeil
Estimating Intermodal Transfer Barriers to Light Rail using Smartcard Data in Seattle, WA, James Eager, Chang-Hee Christine Bae, and Edward D. McCormack
Combined Effect of Changes in Transit Service and Changes in Occupancy on Per-Passenger Energy Consumption, Huiying Fan, Hongyu Lu, Ziyi Dai, Reid Passmore, Angshuman Guin, Kari Watkins, and Randall Guensler
Value Capture In Situ: Participation, Evaluation, and Signaling in Kansas City, MO, Lauren Ames Fischer
Riders’ perceptions towards transit bus electrification: Evidence from Salt Lake City, Utah, Konstantinos Flaris, Konstantina Gkritza, Patrick A. Singleton, Antje R.H. Graul, and Ziqi Song
Dynamic Surrogate Trip-Level Energy Model for Electric Bus Transit System Optimization, Ahmed Foda, Moataz Mohamed, and Mohamed Bakr
Examination of New York City Transit’s Bus and Subway Ridership Trends During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Anne Halvorsen, Daniel Wood, Darian Jefferson, Timon Stasko, Jack Hui, and Alla Reddy
Joint optimization of electric bus charging infrastructure, vehicle scheduling, and charging management, Yi He, Zhaocai Liu, and Ziqi Song
The impacts of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) on social equity analysis of public transit reliability, Reyhane Javanmard, Jinhyung Lee, Junghwan Kim, Luyu Liu, and Ehab Diab
Examining the association between bus transit reliability and the number of boarding passengers, L. Sravya Jayanthi, Srinivas S. Pulugurtha, and Raunak Mishra
Is the relationship between bus and light rail transit a competition substitution or a congestion substitution? An empirical study in Seattle, Junfeng Jiao and Yefu Chen
Disparities in the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Transit Ridership in Austin, Texas, U.S.A, Junfeng Jiao, Kent Hansen, and Amin Azimian
What do riders say and where? The detection and analysis of eyewitness transit tweets, O. Kabbani, W. Klumpenhouwer, T. El-Diraby, and Amer Shalaby
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the comfort of riding a crowded bus in Metro Vancouver, Canada, Bogdan Kapatsila, Francisco J. Bahamonde-Birke, Dea van Lierop, and Emily Grisé
Resolving the accessibility dilemma: Comparing cumulative and gravity-based measures of accessibility in eight Canadian cities, Bogdan Kapatsila, Manuel Santana Palacios, Emily Grisé, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
The impacts of accessibility measure choice on public transit project evaluation: A comparative study of cumulative, gravity-based, and hybrid approaches, Ben Klar, Jinhyung Lee, Jed A. Long, and Ehab Diab
Schedule-based transit assignment with online bus arrival information, Pramesh Kumar and Alireza Khani
Breaking down public transit travel time for more accurate transport equity policies: A trip component approach, Ugo Lachapelle and Geneviève Boisjoly
Sustainable transport choices in public transit access: Travel behavior differences between university students and other young adults, Chang Liu, Eleni Bardaka, and Evangelos Paschalidis
Identifying the Determinants of Anticipated Post-Pandemic Mode Choices in the Greater Toronto Area: A Stated Preference Study, Patrick Loa and Khandker Nurul Habib
What influences the substitution of ride-sourcing for public transit and taxi services in Toronto? An exploratory structural equation model-based study, Patrick Loa, Sk. Md. Mashrur, and Khandker Nurul Habib
Investigation of a river-tunnel effect on PM2.5 concentrations in New York City subway stations, David G. Luglio, Tri Huynh, Antonio Saporito, and Terry Gordon
What motivates the use of shared mobility systems and their integration with public transit? Evidence from a choice experiment study, Hao Luo, Ricardo Chahine, Konstantina Gkritza, and Hua Cai
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Rail Transit Costs and Cost Effectiveness, Zakhary Mallett
Vehicle access and falling transit ridership: evidence from Southern California, Michael Manville, Brian D. Taylor, Evelyn Blumenberg, and Andrew Schouten
What can bring transit ridership back: An econometric study on the potential of usage incentives and operational policies in the Greater Toronto Area, Sk. Md. Mashrur, Kaili Wang, Brenden Lavoie, and Khandker Nurul Habib
Application of Protection Motivation Theory to Quantify the Impact of Pandemic Fear on Anticipated Postpandemic Transit Usage, Sk. Md. Mashrur, Kaili Wang, Patrick Loa, Sanjana Hossain, and Khandker Nurul Habib
Optimal locations and sizes of layover charging stations for electric buses, Dan McCabe and Xueang (Jeff) Ban
Robust path recommendations during public transit disruptions under demand uncertainty, Baichuan Mo, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Zuo-Jun Max Shen, and Jinhua Zhao
Non-Stationary Time Series Model for Station-Based Subway Ridership During COVID-19 Pandemic: Case Study of New York City, Bahman Moghimi, Camille Kamga, Abolfazl Safikhani, Sandeep Mudigonda, and Patricio Vicuna
Development of a Real-Time Wheel Load Quantification System for the Transit Environment, Daniel Mueller, Arthur de O Lima, J. Riley Edwards, and Marcus S. Dersch
Investigating the Use of Machine Learning Methods in Direct Ridership Models for Bus Transit, Gopindra Sivakumar Nair, Arash Mirzaei, and Natalia Ruiz-Juri
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
Influence of Transit Station Proximity on Demographic Change Including Displacement and Gentrification with Implications for Transit and Land Use Planning After the COVID-19 Pandemic, Arthur C. Nelson and Robert Hibberd
Autonomous Minibus Service With Semi-on-Demand Routes in Grid Networks, Max T.M. Ng and Hani S. Mahmassani
Holding times to maintain quasi-regular headways and reduce real-time bus bunching, Citlali M. Olvera-Toscano, Yasmín Á. Ríos-Solís, Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado, and Romeo Sánchez Nigenda
Replicable Methodology for Transportation Agencies to Identify Priority Areas for First and Last Mile Solutions at the Regional Level, Katie O'Sullivan, Deep Suryakant Shah, Peter Bilton, and Eugene McGuinness
Dynamic Bus Lanes Versus Exclusive Bus Lanes: Comprehensive Comparative Analysis of Urban Corridor Performance, Kareem Othman, Amer Shalaby, and Baher Abdulhai
Shifted out: The well-being and justice implications of evening and night commuting, Matthew Palm, Jeff Allen, and Steven Farber
The impact of COVID-19 on route-level changes in transit demand an analysis of five transit agencies in Florida, USA, Sagar Patni, Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan, and Juan Suarez
Exploring the potential role of bikeshare to complement public transit: The case of San Francisco amid the coronavirus crisis, Xiaodong Qian, Miguel Jaller, and Giovanni Circella
Telecommuting and Travel during COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis across Different Population Geographies in the U.S.A., Rezwana Rafiq, Michael G. McNally, and Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin
Associations between Light Rail Transit and physical activity: a systematic review, Léa Ravensbergen, Rania Wasfi, Mathilde Van Liefferinge, Isidor Ehrlich, Stephanie A. Prince, Gregory Butler, Yan Kestens, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
GIS-Based Approach to Dynamic Accessibility: Incorporating a User Perspective to Recognize Social Equity Implications, Dale Robbennolt and Ann-Perry Witmer
An accessibility-based methodology to prioritize public-transit investments: Application to older adults in three metropolitan regions in Canada, Lancelot Rodrigue, Meredith Alousi-Jones, Hisham Negm, Rodrigo Victoriano-Habit, Merrina Zhang, Isabella Jimenez, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Cooperative bus holding and stop-skipping: A deep reinforcement learning framework, Joseph Rodriguez, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Shenhao Wang, and Jinhua Zhao
Train following model for urban rail transit performance analysis, Saeid Saidi, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Nigel H.M. Wilson, and Jinhua Zhao
What Can We Learn from Online Reviews? Examining the Reviews of Los Angeles Metro Rail Stations, Eun Jin Shin
Exploring the link between regional transportation governance and outcomes: A novel measure of polycentricity in metropolitan public transportation systems, Thomas Skuzinski, David Weinreich, and Carolina Velandia Hernandez
Charging Infrastructure and Schedule Planning for a Public Transit Network with a Mixed Fleet of Electric and Diesel Buses, Amirali Soltanpour, Mehrnaz Ghamami, Mahsa Nicknam, Mehdi Ganji, and Wei Tian
Requiem for transit ridership? An examination of who abandoned, who will return, and who will ride more with mobility as a service, Jason Soria, Deirdre Edward, and Amanda Stathopoulos
Untangling the relationships among residential environment, destination choice, and daily walk accessibility, Rongxiang Su and Konstadinos Goulias
Railroad Crossing Surveillance and Foreground Extraction Network: Weakly Supervised Artificial-Intelligence Approach, Youzhi Tang, Yi Wang, and Yu Qian
Exploring nonlinear and collective influences of regional and local built environment characteristics on travel distances by mode, Tao Tao and Jason Cao
Exploring the influences of ride-hailing services on VMT and transit usage – Evidence from California, Guang Tian, Reid Ewing, and Han Li
Achieving urban net-zero targets through regionalized electric bus penetration and energy transition, Xuelin Tian, E. Owen D. Waygood, Chunjiang An, Zhikun Chen, and He Peng
Estimating public transport emissions from General Transit Feed Specification data, João Pedro Bazzo Vieira, Rafael H.M. Pereira, and Pedro R. Andrade
Who Does Light Rail Serve? Examining Gendered Mobilities and Light-Rail Transit in Montreal, Canada, Julian Villafuerte-Diaz, Rodrigo Victoriano-Habit, Aryana Soliz, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Electrification of a citywide bus network: A data-driven micro-simulation approach, Shiqi Wang, Yuze Li, Anthony Chen, and Chengxiang Zhuge
Socioeconomics of urban travel in the U.S.: Evidence from the 2017 NHTS, Xize Wang and John L. Renne
An economic analysis of incorporating new shared mobility into public transportation provision, Yiyuan Wang and Qing Shen
“I just don't go nowhere:” How transportation disadvantage reinforces social exclusion, Chandra Ward and Darrell Walsh
State of the BART: Analyzing the Determinants of Bay Area Rapid Transit Use in the 2010s, Jacob L. Wasserman and Brian D. Taylor
Impact of COVID-19 on Public Transit Accessibility and Ridership, Michael Wilbur, Afiya Ayman, Amutheezan Sivagnanam, Anna Ouyang, Vincent Poon, Riyan Kabir, Abhiram Vadali, Philip Pugliese, Daniel Freudberg, Aron Laszka, and Abhishek Dubey
Quantifying the impact of COVID-19 on travel behavior in different socio-economic segments, Haoning Xi, Qin Li, David A. Hensher, John D. Nelson, and Chinh Ho
Trip planning for a mobility-as-a-service system: Integrating metros and shared autonomous vehicles, Shuang Yang, Jianjun Wu, Huijun Sun, and Yunchao Qu
Impact of corridor highway system on communities: Built environment and travel mode choices, Wookjae Yang, Guang Tian, and Reid Ewing
Evaluating shared e-scooters’ potential to enhance public transit and reduce driving, Xiang Yan, Xilei Zhao, Andrea Broaddus, Joshua Johnson, and Sivaramakrishnan Srinivasan
Impact of Social Media on Travel Behaviors during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from New York City, Qian Ye, Kaan Ozbay, Fan Zuo, and Xiaohong Chen
Quantitative resilience assessment of the network-level metro rail service's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Zhipeng Zhang, Hao Chai, and Zhongjie Guo
Multi-route coordination for bus systems in response to road disruptions, Hankun Zheng, Huijun Sun, Liujiang Kang, Peiling Dai, and Jianjun Wu
A multiple mediation analysis to untangle the impacts of COVID-19 on nationwide bus ridership in the United States, Abubakr Ziedan, Liuz Lima, and Candace Brakewood
Submissions from 2022
Impacts of bus rapid transit (BRT) on residential property values: A comparative analysis of 11 US BRT systems, Blake Acton, Huyen T.K. Le, and Harvey J. Miller
Measurement and classification of transit delays using GTFS-RT data, Zack Aemmer, Andisheh Ranjbari, and Don MacKenzie
Robust strategic planning of dynamic wireless charging infrastructure for electric buses, Yaseen Alweabi, Farzad Avishan, İhsan Yanıkoğlu, Zhaocai Liu, and Yong Wang
Ridesharing and fleet sizing for On-Demand Multimodal Transit Systems, Ramon Auad-Perez and Pascal Van Hentenryck
The Impact of a Single Bus Rapid Transit Corridor on Transit Ridership: The Winnipeg Example, Dwayne Marshall Baker and Orly Linovski
Understanding transit ridership in an equity context through a comparison of statistical and machine learning algorithms, Elnaz Yousefzadeh Barri, Steven Farber, Hadi Jahanshahi, and Eda Beyazit