Submissions from 2023
Transfer time optimisation in public transit networks: assessment of alternative models, Zahra Ansarilari, Mahmood Mahmoodi Nesheli, Merve Bodur, and Amer Shalaby
Short-Term Passenger Flow Prediction Using a Bus Network Graph Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network Model, Asiye Baghbani, Nizar Bouguila, and Zachary Patterson
Similarity-based bus services assignment with capacity constraint for staggered bus stops, Qiaowen Bai and Ghim Ping Ong
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
Scheduling of Coupled Train Platoons for Metro Networks: A Passenger Demand-Oriented Approach, Simin Chai, Jiateng Yin, Andrea D'Ariano, Marcella Samà, and Tao Tang
Train schedule optimization for commuter-metro networks, Simin Chai, Jiateng Yin, Andrea D'Ariano, Marcella Samà, and Tao Tang
Hierarchical optimal control framework to automatic train regulation combined with energy-efficient speed trajectory calculation in metro lines, Zebin Chen, Shukai Li, and Lixing Yang
Double-battery configuration method for electric bus operation in cold regions, Yuan Cong, Heqi Wang, Yiming Bie, and Jiabin Wu
The bus synchronization timetabling problem with dwelling times, Cristián E. Cortés, Cristiam Gil, Antonio Gschwender, and Pablo A. Rey
Modeling dwell time in a data-rich railway environment: With operations and passenger flows data, Rémi Coulaud, Christine Keribin, and Gilles Stoltz
Joint optimal vehicle and recharging scheduling for mixed bus fleets under limited chargers, Shaohua Cui, Kun Gao, Bin Yu, Zhenliang Ma, and Arsalan Najafi
Exploring the drive-by sensing power of bus fleet through active scheduling, Zhuang Dai and Ke Han
Integrated optimization of electric bus scheduling and charging planning incorporating flexible charging and timetable shifting strategies, Mengyuan Duan, Feixiong Liao, Geqi Qi, and Wei Guan
Effects on operating costs of adjusting bus departure times during peak-hour traffic in Sweden, Eva-Lena Eriksson, Helene Lidestam, and Lena Winslott Hiselius
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
Optimization framework for integrated battery electric bus planning and charging scheduling, Pranav Gairola and N. Nezamuddin
An exact optimization method for coordinating the arrival times of urban rail lines at a common corridor, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis, Oded Cats, Tao Liu, and J. M. Bult
Periodic Optimization of Bus Dispatching Times and Vehicle Schedules Considering the COVID-19 Capacity Limits: A Dutch Case Study, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis and Tao Liu
Research on the combinatorial optimization of EBs departure interval and vehicle configuration based on uncertain bi-level programming, Jun Guo, Yunqiang Xue, and HongZhi Guan
Joint optimization of electric bus charging infrastructure, vehicle scheduling, and charging management, Yi He, Zhaocai Liu, and Ziqi Song
A novel two-stage approach for energy-efficient timetabling for an urban rail transit network, Kang Huang and Feixiong Liao
Optimal headway-based bus dispatching strategy under the influence of epidemic outbreaks, Yan Huang, Zongzhi Li, Shengrui Zhang, Bei Zhou, and Lei Zhang
Optimal electric bus fleet scheduling for a route with charging facility sharing, Jinhua Ji, Yiming Bie, and Linhong Wang
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
Bus priority lane in Bengaluru: A study on its effectiveness and driver stress, P. N. Karthik, Nihesh Rathod, Sarath Yasodharan, Wilson Lobo, Ajeesh Sahadevan, Rajesh Sundaresan, and Pratik Verma
Schedule-based transit assignment with online bus arrival information, Pramesh Kumar and Alireza Khani
A solar-powered bus charging infrastructure location problem under charging service degradation, Xiaohan Liu, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Zhengke Liu, Ruifeng Shi, and Xiaolei Ma
Bi-level model predictive control for metro networks: Integration of timetables, passenger flows, and train speed profiles, Xiaoyu Liu, Azita Dabiri, Jing Xun, and Bart De Schutter
Integrated optimization of timetable, bus formation, and vehicle scheduling in autonomous modular public transport systems, Zhengke Liu, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Zhenliang Ma, Shen Li, and Xiaolei Ma
Literature Review on Problem Models and Solution Approaches for Managing Real-Time Passenger Train Operations: The Perspective of Train Operating Companies, Luis Marques, Sergio Moro, and Pedro Ramos
Optimal locations and sizes of layover charging stations for electric buses, Dan McCabe and Xueang (Jeff) Ban
Optimization of headway and bus stop spacing for low demand bus routes, Sushreeta Mishra, Babak Mehran, and Prasanta K. Sahu
Adaptive rail transit network operations with a rollout surrogate-approximate dynamic programming approach, Hoa T.M. Nguyen and Andy H.F. Chow
Bi-objective optimization of last-train timetabling with multimodal coordination in urban transportation, Jia Ning, Qiyuan Peng, Yongqiu Zhu, Xinjie Xing, and Otto Anker Nielsen
Optimizing Integrated All-Stop, Express, and Short-Turn Services on a Metro Line with Capacity Constraint Considering Passenger Spatio-Temporal Path Choice, Hezhou Qu, Ziyi Wang, and Xiaobo Liu
Designing limited-stop bus services for minimizing operator and user costs under crowding conditions, Mohammad Sadrani, Ahmad Reza Jafarian-Moghaddam, Mohsen Aboutalebi Esfahani, and Amir Masoud Rahimi
Safety-oriented train timetabling and stop planning with time-varying and elastic demand on overcrowded commuter metro lines, Jungang Shi, Jing Yang, Lixing Yang, Lefeng Tao, Shengjie Qiang, Zhen Di, and Junhua Guo
Will the latest British reforms to rail passenger service procurement work?, Andrew S.J. Smith and Chris A. Nash
Development of new railway timetabling rules for increased robustness, Emma Solinen and Carl-William Palmqvist
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
Optimization of single-line electric bus scheduling with skip-stop operation, Chunyan Tang, Hudi Shi, and Tao Liu
Dynamic operations of an integrated mobility service system of fixed-route transits and flexible electric buses, Xindi Tang, Jie Yang, Xi Lin, Fang He, and Jinhua Si
Joint scheduling and formation design for modular-vehicle transit service with time-dependent demand, Qingyun Tian, Yun Hui Lin, and David Z.W. Wang
A simulation-based metro train scheduling optimization incorporating multimodal coordination and flexible routing plans, Xingrong Wang, Ying Lv, Huijun Sun, Guangtong Xu, Yunchao Qu, and Jianjun Wu
En-route fast charging infrastructure planning and scheduling for battery electric bus systems, Xuedong Wang, Ziqi Song, Hongli Xu, and Hua Wang
Data-driven distributionally robust timetabling and dynamic-capacity allocation for automated bus systems with modular vehicles, Dongyang Xia, Jihui Ma, Sh. Sharif Azadeh, and Wenyi Zhang
Collaborative optimization of electric bus line scheduling with multiple charging modes, Dong-Fan Xie, Ya-Peng Yu, Guang-Jing Zhou, Xiao-Mei Zhao, and Yong-Jun Chen
Integrated electric bus timetabling and scheduling problem, Xiaoming Xu, Yanhong Yu, and Jiancheng Long
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
Synchronization of train timetables in an urban rail network: A bi-objective optimization approach, Jiateng Yin, Miao Wang, Andrea D'Ariano, Jinlei Zhang, and Lixing Yang
Optimal platforming, routing, and scheduling of trains and locomotives in a rail passenger station yard, Bojian Zhang, Yongxiang Zhang, Andrea D’Ariano, Tommaso Bosi, Gongyuan Lu, and Qiyuan Peng
Bus Scheduling of Overlapping Routes Based on the Combination of All-Stop and Stop-Skipping Services, Mingye Zhang, Min Yang, Da Lei, and Xiammin Song
Integrated optimization of demand-driven timetable, train formation plan and rolling stock circulation with variable running times and dwell times, Yaqiong Zhao, Dewei Li, Yonghao Yin, and Xiaoli Zhao
Multi-route coordination for bus systems in response to road disruptions, Hankun Zheng, Huijun Sun, Liujiang Kang, Peiling Dai, and Jianjun Wu
Submissions from 2022
Measurement and classification of transit delays using GTFS-RT data, Zack Aemmer, Andisheh Ranjbari, and Don MacKenzie
Are commuter train timetables consistent with passengers’ valuations of waiting times and in-vehicle crowding?, Abderrahman Ait Ali, Jonas Eliasson, and Jennifer Warg
Robust strategic planning of dynamic wireless charging infrastructure for electric buses, Yaseen Alweabi, Farzad Avishan, İhsan Yanıkoğlu, Zhaocai Liu, and Yong Wang
Evaluation of the techno-economic performance of battery electric buses: Case study of a bus line in paris, Hussein Basma, Marc Haddad, Charbel Mansour, Maroun Nemer, and Pascal Stabat
Towards renewable public transport: Mining the performance of electric buses using solar-radiation as an auxiliary power source, Haoqian Chen, Yi Sui, Wen-long Shang, Rencheng Sun, Zhiheng Chen, Changying Wang, Chunjia Han, Yuqian Zhang, and Haoran Zhang
An operating system for extra long urban trains, Carlos F. Daganzo
Enhancing the interaction of railway timetabling and line planning with infrastructure awareness, Florian Fuchs, Alessio Trivella, and Francesco Corman
Robustness and disturbances in public transport, Liping Ge, Stefan Voß, and Lin Xie
Subline frequency setting for autonomous minibusses under demand uncertainty, K. Gkiotsalitis, M. Schmidt, and E. van der Hurk
Timetabling for a congested urban rail transit network based on mixed logic dynamic model, Sijia Hao, Rui Song, and Shiwei He
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
Scheduling zonal-based flexible bus service under dynamic stochastic demand and Time-dependent travel time, Enoch Lee, Xuekai Cen, and Hong K. Lo
Path-oriented synchronized transit scheduling using time-dependent data, Kelvin Lee, Yu Jiang, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, Justin Dauwels, Rong Su, and Otto Anker Nielsen
Resolution of coupling order and station level constraints in train unit scheduling, Li Lei, Raymond S.K. Kwan, Zhiyuan Lin, and Pedro J. Copado-Mendez
Skip-Stop Strategy Patterns optimization to enhance mass transit operation under physical distancing policy due to COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, Charinee Limsawasd, Nathee Athigakunagorn, Phattadon Khathawatcharakun, and Atiwat Boonmee
Spatial analysis of bus rapid transit actual operating conditions: the case of Hangzhou City, China, Dongxu Liu, Chenxin Zhao, Hongzhao Dong, and Zhi Huang
Train timetabling with the general learning environment and multi-agent deep reinforcement learning, Wenqing Li and Shaoquan Ni
Passenger-oriented traffic control for rail networks: An optimization model considering crowding effects on passenger choices and train operations, Xiaojie Luan and Francesco Corman
Estimating the robustness of public transport schedules using machine learning, Matthias Müller-Hannemann, Ralf Rückert, Alexander Schiewe, and Anita Schöbel
An optimization model for planning limited-stop transit operations, Mahmood Mahmoodi Nesheli, Siva Srikukenthiran, and Amer Shalaby
An optimization method to design a skip–stop pattern for renovating operation schemes in urban railways, Sukman Oh and Jiwoong Choi
Passenger Inflow Control Along Rail Corridor for Recurrent Heavy Passenger Flow Mitigation, Hanchuan Pan, Yue Liu, Zhigang Liu, and Hua Hu
A column generation approach for the driver scheduling problem with staff cars, Shyam S.G. Perumal, Jesper Larsen, Richard M. Lusby, Morten Riis, and Tue R.L. Christensen
Integrating para- and scheduled transit: Minibus paratransit operators' perspective on reform in Cape Town, Christopher Plano and Roger Behrens
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
Relaxation methods for fixed route demand responsive transit, Oksana Pecherski Sabinik and Hillel Bar-Gera
Zero bunching solution for a local public transport system with multiple-origins bus operation, S. Sajikumar and D. Bijulal
A simulation-optimization framework for traffic disturbance recovery in metro systems, M. L. Tessitore, M. Samà, A. D’Ariano, L. Hélouet, and D. Pacciarelli
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
Integrated optimization of charger deployment and fleet scheduling for battery electric buses, Yongxing Wang, Feixiong Liao, and Chaoru Lu
How does the weather affect public transit ridership? A model with weather-passenger variations, Ming Wei
Joint optimization of timetabling, vehicle scheduling, and ride-matching in a flexible multi-type shuttle bus system, Mian Wu, Chunhui Yu, Wanjing Ma, Kun An, and Zhihua Zhong
The multi-depot electric vehicle scheduling problem with power grid characteristics, Weitiao Wu, Yue Lin, Ronghui Liu, and Wenzhou Jin
Optimizing operational strategies for mass transit systems in response to a global pandemic, Hongyuan Yang and Yu (Marco) Nie
Maximizing network utility while considering proportional fairness for rail transit systems: Jointly optimizing passenger allocation and vehicle schedules, Yonghao Yin, Dewei Li, Zhenyu Han, Xinlei Dong, and Hui Liu
Joint optimization of train scheduling and dynamic passenger flow control strategy with headway-dependent demand, Fuya Yuan, Huijun Sun, Liujiang Kang, and Si Zhang
Mixed electric bus fleet scheduling problem with partial mixed-route and partial recharging, Aijia Zhang, Tiezhu Li, Yue Zheng, Xuefeng Li, Muhammad Ghazanfar Abdullah, and Changyin Dong
A heuristic approach to integrate train timetabling, platforming, and railway network maintenance scheduling decisions, Qin Zhang, Richard Martin Lusby, Pan Shang, and Xiaoning Zhu
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
Joint optimization of train scheduling and rolling stock circulation planning with passenger flow control on tidal overcrowded metro lines, Housheng Zhou, Jianguo Qi, Lixing Yang, Jungang Shi, and Pengli Mo
Joint optimization of train timetabling and rolling stock circulation planning: A novel flexible train composition mode, Housheng Zhou, Jianguo Qi, Lixing Yang, Jungang Shi, Hanchuan Pan, and Yuan Gao
Submissions from 2021
An exact solution approach for an electric bus dispatch problem, Matías Alvo, Gustavo Angulo, and Mathias A. Klapp
Vehicle and reliable driver scheduling for public bus transportation systems, Alejandro Andrade-Michel, Yasmín A. Ríos-Solís, and Vincent Boyer
A combined dial-a-ride and fixed schedule ferry service for coastal cities, Ingvild Eide Aslaksen, Elisabeth Svanberg, Kjetil Fagerholt, Lennart C. Johnsen, and Frank Meisel
Passenger-centric timetable rescheduling: A user equilibrium approach, S. Binder, M. Y. Maknoon, Sh. Sharif Azadeh, and M. Bierlaire
