Submissions from 2020
A systematic approach to evaluate risks and failures of public transport systems with a real case study for bus rapid system in Istanbul, Melike Erdoğan and İhsan Kaya
A sustainable approach for selecting and timing the urban transportation infrastructure projects in large-scale networks: A case study of Isfahan, Iran, Razieh Khayamim, Seyyed-Nader Shetab-Boushehrib, Seyyed-Mohammadreza Hosseininasab, and Hadi Karimi
Optimal design of transit networks fed by shared bikes, Liyu Wu, Weihua Gu, Wenbo Fan, and Michael J. Cassidy
Submissions from 2019
Understanding public transport satisfaction: Using Maslow's hierarchy of (transit) needs, Jaime Allen, Juan Carlos Muñoz, and Juan de Dios Ortúzar
Analysis of Private Participation Effects in Bus Rapid Transit Projects in Ecuador, Juan F. Arias and Chris Bachmann
The efficiency of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems: A dynamic congestion approach, Leonardo J. Basso, Fernando Feres, and Hugo E. Silva
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
Multimodal Connections with Transitways: Ridership, Access Mode, and Route Choice Implications, Yingling Fan, Andrew Guthrie, Alireza Khani, and Jacqueline Nowak
2019 Public Transportation Fact Book, MacPherson Hughes-Cromwick
Development of a driving cycle for Istanbul bus rapid transit based on real-world data using stratified sampling method, Habib Kaymaz, Hayriye Korkmaz, and Hasan Erdal
Evaluating the Environmental Benefits of Median Bus Lanes: Microscopic Simulation Approach, Daejin Kim, Joonho Ko, Xiaodan Xu, Haobing Liu, Michael O. Rodgers, and Randall Guensler
Transit Route Origin–Destination Matrix Estimation using Compressed Sensing, Pramesh Kumar, Alireza Khani, and Gary A. Davis
Optimization-based operations control for public transportation service with transfers, Hend Manasra and Tomer Toledo
In-vehicle crowding: Integrating tangible attributes, attitudes, and perceptions in a choice context between BRT and metro, Luis Márquez, Julieth V. Alfonso A, and Juan C. Poveda
Review of asset management for metro systems: challenges and opportunities, Alireza Mohammadi, Luis Amador-Jimenez, and Fuzhan Nasiri
The Politics of Prioritizing Transit on City Streets, Rosalie Singerman Ray
The Real Estate Mantra- Locate Near Public Transportation, Preeti Shankar, Linda Young, Peter Haas, and Paul Esling
Accessibility-based premiums and proximity-induced discounts stemming from bus rapid transit in China: Empirical evidence and policy implications, Linchuan Yang, K. W. Chau, and Xiaoling Chu
Exploring rider satisfaction with transit service in Indore, India: an application of the three-factor theory, Chen Zhang, Xinyu Cao, Ajay Nagpure, and Siddharth Agarwal
Commuting Efficiency Gains: Assessing Different Transport Policies with New Indicators, Jiangping Zhou, Enda Murphy, and Ying Long
Submissions from 2018
Evaluation of the impact of Bus Rapid Transit on air pollution in Mexico City, Germà Bel and Maximilian Holst
An analysis of changes to transit accessibility and equity after the opening of a bus rapid transit system in Hartford, Connecticut, Kelly Layne Bertolaccini
High volume bus stop upstream average waiting time for working capacity and quality of service, Jonathan M. Bunker
Minimizing the total costs of urban transit systems can reduce greenhouse gas emissions: The case of San Francisco, Han Cheng, Chao Mao, Samer Madanat, and Arpad Horvath
A cost-competitiveness analysis of charging infrastructure for electric bus operations, Zhibin Chen, Yafeng Yin, and Ziqi Song
Well-to-Wheel analysis of fossil energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for conventional, hybrid-electric and plug-in hybrid-electric city buses in the BRT system in Curitiba, Brazil, Dennis Dreier, Semida Silveira, Dilip Khatiwada, Keiko V.O. Fonseca, Rafael Nieweglowski, and Renan Schepanski
Exploring difference in value uplift resulting from new bus rapid transit routes within a medium size metropolitan area, Jean Dubé, Eugénie Andrianary, François Assad-Déry, Janie Poupart, and Justine Simard
From bus to tramway: Is there an economic impact of substituting a rapid mass transit system? An empirical investigation accounting for anticipation effect, Jean Dubé, Diègo Legros, and Nicolas Devaux
Developing bus rapid transit, Fiona Ferbrache
Defining TransMilenio Users’ Value and Satisfaction through the Lean Thinking Approach, Carlos Garcia-Suarez, Andres L. Rivera-Perez, and Alvaro Rodriguez-Valencia
Transit-oriented development and air quality in Chinese cities: A city-level examination, Peiqin Gu, Dongxu He, Yulin Chen, P. Christopher Zegras, and Yang Jiang
Fare discrimination and daily demand distribution in the BRT system in Bogotá, Luis A. Guzman, Carlos A. Moncada, and Santiago Gómez
Effects of new bus and rail rapid transit systems – an international review, Jesper Bláfoss Ingvardson and Otto Anker Nielsen
A linear bus rapid transit with transit signal priority formulation, Tarikul Islam, Hai L. Vu, Nam H. Hoang, and Antonio Cricenti
Bus rapid transit (BRT): A simulation and multi criteria decision making (MCDM) approach, Reza Kiani Mavi, Navid Zarbakhshnia, and Armin Khazraei
Measuring the impacts of new public transit services on space-time accessibility: An analysis of transit system redesign and new bus rapid transit in Columbus, Ohio, USA, Jinhyung Lee and Harvey J. Miller
Apples to apples: Comparing BRT and light rail while avoiding the “BRT-Lite” trap, Jonathan Levine, Matan Singer, Louis Merlin, and Joe Grengs
Equity in practice? Evaluations of equity in planning for bus rapid transit, Orly Linovski, Dwayne Marshall Baker, and Kevin Manaugh
Does public transport accessibility enhance subjective well-being? A study of the City of Johannesburg, Nahungu Lionjanga and Christo Venter
Improving Efficiency and Reliability of Bus Rapid Transit, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Milan Zlatkovic, Richard J. Porter, Kiavash Fayyaz, and Song Yu
Not If, but When: Autonomous Driving and the Future of Transit, Jerome M. Lutin
Trade-offs between transaction cost, operation cost and innovation in the context of procurement and asset specificity – The example of the bus industry, R. Merkert, C. Mulley, and M. M. Hakim
A technology selection and design model of a semi-rapid transit line, Luigi Moccia, Duncan W. Allen, and Eric C. Bruun
Air quality in tramway and high-level service buses: A mixed experimental/modeling approach to estimating users' exposure, Bogdan Muresan and Denis François
Learning through collaboration in the Swedish public transport sector? Co-production through guidelines and living labs, Fredrik Pettersson, Stig Westerdahl, and Joel Hansson
Understanding Transit System Performance Using AVL-APC Data: An Analytics Platform with Case Studies for the Pittsburgh Region, Xidong Pi, Mark Egge, Jackson Whitmore, Amy Silbermann, and Zhen Sean Qian
Bus rapid transit systems as a governance reform project, Michael Poku-Boansi and Greg Marsden
Citizen participation for sustainable transport: Lessons for change from Santiago and Temuco, Chile, Lake Sagaris
Tangible Tools for Public Transportation Planning: Public Involvement and Learning for Bus Rapid Transit Corridor Design, Anson F. Stewart, P. Christopher Zegras, Phil Tinn, and Jeffrey L. Rosenblum
Transit planning, access, and justice: Evolving visions of bus rapid transit and the Chicago street, Elina Sukaryavichute and David L. Prytherch
After Study of the Bus Rapid Transit A Line Impacts, Benjamin Tomhave, Yufeng Zhang, Alireza Khani, John Hourdos, Peter Dirks, Jack Olsson, Tao Tao, Xinyi Wu, and Jason Cao
The equity impacts of bus rapid transit: A review of the evidence and implications for sustainable transport, Christoffel Venter, Gail Jennings, Darío Hidalgo, and Andrés Felipe Valderrama Pineda
The ridership performance of the built environment for BRT systems: Evidence from Latin America, C. Erik Vergel-Tovar and Daniel A. Rodriguez
Who benefits from bus rapid transit? Evidence from the Metro Bus System (MBS) in Lahore, Edmund J. Zolnik, Ammar Malik, and Yasemin Irvin-Erickson
Submissions from 2017
Real-Time Bus-Holding Control Strategy to Reduce Passenger Waiting Time, Mohamadamin Asgharzadeh and Yousef Shafahi
Contested spaces and subjectivities of transit: Political ecology of a bus rapid transit development in Oakland, California, Ingrid Behrsin and Chris Benner
How can public transit get people out of their cars? An analysis of transit mode choice for commute trips in Los Angeles, Sandip Chakrabarti
The effect of BRT implementation and streetscape redesign on physical activity: A case study of Mexico City, Annie Chang, Luis Miranda-Moreno, Jason Cao, and Ben Welle
Examining changes in travel patterns among lower wealth households after BRT investment in Bogotá, Colombia, Tabitha S. Combs
Bergen light rail – Effects on travel behaviour, Øystein Engebretsen, Petter Christiansen, and Arvid Strand
Public transit, active travel, and the journey to school: a cross-nested logit analysis, Alireza Ermagun and David Levinson
Development of a performance measurement system to choose the most efficient programs, the case of the Mashhad transportation system, Ali Gholami and Maysam Ziaee
Comparing Chinese and Non-Chinese Bus Rapid Transit Systems: Evidence from Evaluating Global Systems on the Basis of Bus Rapid Transit Design Indicators, Pablo Guarda, Juan Miguel Velásquez, Thet Hein Tun, Xumei Chen, and Guo Zhong
Sustainability evaluation of rapid routes for buses with a network DEA model, Jin-Seok Hahn, Seung-Young Kho, Keechoo Choi, and Dong-Kyu Kim
Analysing improvements to on-street public transport systems: a mesoscopic model approach, Jesper Bláfoss Ingvardson, Jonas Kornerup Jensen, and Otto Anker Nielsen
A Nash equilibrium formulation of a tradable credits scheme for incentivizing transport choices: From next-generation public transport mode choice to HOT lanes, Salem Lahlou and Laura Wynter
A novel passenger flow prediction model using deep learning methods, Lijuan Liu and Rung-Ching Chen
Deficit function related to public transport: 50 year retrospective, new developments, and prospects, Tao Liu and Avishai (Avi) Ceder
San Pablo, California, Corridor Rapid Service: Planning and 10 Years of Operational Experience, Peter Martin and Nathan Landau
Determinants of bus rapid transit (BRT) system revenue and effectiveness – A global benchmarking exercise, Rico Merkert, Corinne Mulley, and Md Mahbubul Hakim
Models for technology choice in a transit corridor with elastic demand, Luigi Moccia, Giovanni Giallombardo, and Gilbert Laporte
A Framework for Measuring the Spatial Equity in the Distribution of Public Transportation Benefits, Seyyed Amir Hosein Mortazavi and Meisam Akbarzadeh
South Eastern Busway Network in Brisbane, Australia: Value of the Network Effect, Corinne Mulley, Breno Sampaio, and Liang Ma
Impact of bus rapid transit on housing price and accessibility changes in Sydney: A repeat sales approach, Corinne Mulley and Chi-Hong (Patrick) Tsai
An integrated MCDM approach to evaluate public transportation systems in Tehran, M. Nassereddine and H. Eskandari
Transit and Real Estate Rents, Arthur C. Nelson
Measuring the Accuracy of Bus Rapid Transit Forecasts, John Perry
Accessibility, Affordability, and Addressing Informal Services in Bus Reform: Lessons from Bogotá, Colombia, Camila Rodriguez, Tatiana Peralta-Quirós, Luis A. Guzman, and Sebastian A. Cárdenas Reyes
Schedule-free high-frequency transit operations, Gabriel E. Sánchez-Martínez, Nigel H.M. Wilson, and Haris N. Koutsopoulos
Lessons from building paratransit operators’ capacity to be partners in Cape Town’s public transport reform process, Herrie Schalekamp
A new solution framework for the limited-stop bus service design problem, Guillermo Soto, Homero Larrain, and Juan Carlos Muñoz
The Causal Effect of Bus Rapid Transit on Changes in Transit Ridership, Orion T. Stewart, Anne Vernez Moudon, and Brian E. Saelens
Stress-related psychosocial factors at work, fatigue, and risky driving behavior in bus rapid transport (BRT) drivers, Sergio A. Useche, Viviola Gómez Ortiz, and Boris E. Cendales
Submissions from 2016
Does transit mode influence the transit-orientation of urban development? – An empirical study, Laura Aston, Graham Currie, and Katerina Pavkova
Rubber Tires for Residents: Bus Rapid Transit and Changing Neighborhoods in Los Angeles, California, Anne E. Brown
Combining robustness and recovery in rapid transit network design, L. Cadarso and Á. Marín
Guidebooks for Estimating Total Transit Usage through Extrapolating Incomplete Counts, Xuehao Chu
A historical overview of enhanced bus services in Australian cities: What has been tried, what has worked?, Geoffrey T. Clifton and Corinne Mulley
BRT in Brazil: Designing services in function of given infrastructure projects or designing infrastructure in function of established service quality patterns?, Joaquim José Guilherme de Aragão, Yaeko Yamashita, and Romulo Dante Orrico Filho
Measuring the impacts of Bus Rapid Transit on residential property values: The Beijing case, Taotao Deng, Mulan Ma, and John D. Nelson
Genetic Algorithm and Regression-Based Model for Analyzing Fare Payment Structure and Transit Dwell Time, S. Kiavash Fayyaz, Xiaoyue (Cathy) Liu, and Richard J. Porter
Exploring alternative service schemes for busy transit corridors, Weihua Gu, Zahra Amini, and Michael J. Cassidy
Why is Light Rail Starting to Dominate Bus Rapid Transit Yet Again?, David Hensher
Forty years of modelling rapid transit’s land value uplift in North America: moving beyond the tip of the iceberg, Christopher D. Higgins and Pavlos S. Kanaroglou
Assessing multiple criteria for rapid bus routes in the public transport system in Vilnius, Marius Jakimavičius, Marija Burinskienė, Modesta Gusarovienė, and Askoldas Podviezko
When and where are limited-stop bus services justified?, Homero Larrain and Juan Carlos Muñoz
Mega events and the transformation of Rio de Janeiro into a mass-transit city, Luis Antonio Lindau, Guillermo Petzhold, Virginia Bergamaschi Tavares, and Daniela Facchini
Optimization of Main Public Transport Paths Based on Accessibility — Case Study: Mashhad, Iran, Houman Shadab Mehr, Mohamad Rahim Rahnama, Mohamad Ajza Shokouhi, and Ezatollah Mafi