Submissions from 2026
Activity participation among disadvantaged communities and the impact of an aerial cable car: The case of TransMiCable, Bogotá, Santiago Cardona-Urrea, Jaime Soza-Parra, and Dick Ettema
Everything has changed: the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the transit market in Montréal, Canada, Thiago Carvalho and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Effect of shared micromobility on public transit ridership in metro and medium-sized urban areas in the United States: complementary or substitutionary?, Kwangyul Choi and John Park
Social comparison drives green transport switching: Travel satisfaction as the bridge, Hao Dong, Haslinda Hashim, and Nitty Hirawaty Kamarulzaman
Discovering the nonlinear association between the built environment and metro ridership: Global and local perspectives, Shihai Dong, Yandong Wang, Chao Wang, Mingxuan Dou, and Jianya Gong
A global, hybrid life cycle sustainability assessment of alternative fuel buses: Supporting decision making for sustainability and eco-efficiency, Noura Elagouz, Nuri C. Onat, Murat Kucukvar, Muhammet E. Bulak, Adeeb A. Kutty, Ammar Abulibdeh, and Esmat Zaidan
Changes in the Service Evaluations of Automated Buses Over Time: A One-Year, Three-Wave Panel Study in Stockholm, Jia Guo, Xiao Yan Kang, Yusak Susilo, Constantinos Antoniou, and Anna Pernestål
Effects of rearward countdown timers at highly automated shuttle buses to announce departing, Silvio Hess, Ann-Christin Hensch, Matthias Beggiato, and Josef F. Krems
Inter-station travel reliability assessment of public transportation systems: under multimodal transport, Xiaowei Hu and Zhenyang Qiu
Enhancing energy-environmental efficiency of autonomous bus: an NMPC-based trajectory optimization model, Shiyu Jiang, Xumei Chen, Yuqing Wang, Yixin Zhang, Yifan Zhu, and Lei Yu
Estimating the impact of new rail service on travel behaviour of current bus passengers using smart card data, Fırat Enver Kesmez and Volkan Emre Uz
Optimizing battery electric bus allocations: an integrated approach to cost minimization and evolutionary game theory, Jing Liu, Jie Zhang, Chuntong Dong, and Qingling He
Sustainable transit network design considering photovoltaic-storage-charging depot, Yi Liu and Jinjing Zhang
Joint optimization of electric bus charging and dispatching plans using mobile charging vehicle, Xin Li, Chengen Xie, Meng Li, Xiaoyu Cai, and Yun Yuan
Robust dynamic real-time control strategies for high-frequency bus service: a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework, Victor Jian Ming Low, Hooi Ling Khoo, and Wooi Chen Khoo
A synchronization-constraints-based dual bands method of traffic signal optimization, Kai Lu, Guanghui Xu, Xiaofeng Xie, Jianmin Xu, and Yinhai Wang
Dedicated bus lane vs queue jump lane: a microsimulation case study of Guwahati city using VISSIM under mixed traffic conditions, Kamalnath Maddu, Suprava Jena, and N. Mohamed Hasain
Headway regularity as an attribute for classifying bus drivers, Yerly Martínez-Estupiñan, Felipe Delgado, and Juan Carlos Muñoz
Collaborative and incentivized trip planning system to minimize transportation emissions for business commuting, Shahryar Monghasemi and Moatassem Abdallah
Accounting for passenger loss in bus bunching reduction: a robust real-time speed control method, Kupeng Ning and Hai Jiang
Analyzing an Integrated Mode-Choice User Preference Model for Budapest, Laila Oubahman, Szabolcs Duleba, and Domokos Esztergár-Kiss
A multidimensional urban transport equity assessment framework: A case of Mumbai, K. T. Sarath, Trupti Mishra, and Rangan Banerjee
Shifting gears: Exploring private car users’ perception of public transport ridership, Eugene Sogbe, Susilawati Susilawati, Graham Currie, and Chee Pin Tan
Is bus riding always lower-carbon than driving? Quantifying passenger-level carbon reduction potential for bus travel incentives in China, Shichao Sun and Xiaohua Liu
Customised bus service design considering flexible vehicle size and transfer incentivization, Jianbiao Wang, Tomio Miwa, Dawei Li, and Takayuki Morikawa
Integrated design and optimization of customized bus travel services for urban commuting, Xu Wang, Tong Zhou, Rongjian Dai, Bingbing Xue, and Yingchao Sun
Conflict assessment of pull-out bus stops: a novel fine-grained simulation, Yawei Wang, Xin Li, Jun Liu, and Sai Zhang
Passenger flow prediction for citywide bus stops based on gated multi-graph convolutional network, Yu-yang Wang, Cheng Zhang, Wen-peng Qu, and Ze-hao Jiang
Is first mile behaviour similar to last mile behaviour? A case study on a rapid rail system in South Africa, Daniel Watts, Christoffel Venter, and Gary Hayes
Impacts of multi-scale built environment on transportation carbon emissions: A Guangzhou case, Rong Wu, Yongli Zhang, Yunnan Cai, and Shaojian Wang
More bus subsidies, better bus benefits? Evidence from the effect of bus subsidy policies in 33 key cities of China, Chunqin Zhang, Meng Liu, Yi Huang, Jinpei Li, and Martin Skitmore
Development of a bus real-time crash risk prediction framework by using a self-attention-based bidirectional long and short-term memory network with anomaly detection learning and mixed sequence features, Ning Zhang, Yiping Wu, Aoran Yang, and Tao Liu
Real-time bus arrival delays analysis using seemingly unrelated regression model, Qi Zhang, Zhenliang Ma, Pengfei Zhang, Yancheng Ling, and Erik Jenelius
How to promote the combined use of metro and shared bicycles under different land-use patterns around metro stations: A case study of Shanghai, Yantang Zhang and Xiaowei Hu
Deployment strategy for customized bus stops at large transport terminals based on fusion clustering method, Yan Zheng, Zijuan Yin, Xiang Zhang, Rongrong Guo, and Wenquan Li
Collaborative optimization method for intelligent and connected single-route bus operation, Xuemei Zhou, Yunbo Zhang, Guohui Wei, Qianlin Wang, and Huanwu Guo
Submissions from 2025
How new metro lines shape a sustainable future: A before-after study of travel behavior, perceptions, and emissions in Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India, M. Abhijna, K. V. Krishna Rao, and Vedagiri Perumal
Monitoring and evaluation of travel behaviour change in mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) trials: Insights from a longitudinal study, Nazam Ali, Seda Sucu Sagmanli, Djamila Ouelhadj, Nima Dadashzadeh, Lee Woods, and Graham Fletcher
Eastern paradigm of urban mobility: the case of Erbil city, Iraq, Hadeel Alsabbagh
Pedestrian crash causation analysis near bus stops: Insights from random parameters Negative Binomial–Lindley model, Mohammad Anis, Srinivas R. Geedipally, and Dominique Lord
Recognizing user satisfaction and loyalty in bus and metro services: A gender-based analysis using PLS-SEM, Sara Arancibia, Felipe González, Carolina Busco, Tiare Vera, and Milko Yuretic
Simulation based pre-implementation cost evaluation framework for integrated public transit services, Avani Aravind, Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, Sabya Mishra, and Candace Brakewood
Bus regulation and the net-zero transition dynamics in Great Britain, Iraklis Argyriou
Quantifying direct public costs and externalities for a just and sustainable urban transport, Magdala Arioli, Luis Antonio Lindau, Cristina Albuquerque, Francisco Pasqual, and Pollyana Rêgo
Do reward-based incentives via smartphones encourage modal shift to sustainable modes?, Jacqueline Arriagada, Carlo Prato, and Susan Grant-Muller
TMS-GNN: Traffic-aware Multistep Graph Neural Network for bus passenger flow prediction, Asiye Baghbani, Saeed Rahmani, Nizar Bouguila, and Zachary Patterson
Electrifying the bus network with trolleybus: Analyzing the in motion charging technology, Mikołaj Bartłomiejczyk and Priscilla Caliandro
Does transit-oriented development (TOD) influence perceived safety and mode choice?, Gülin Göksu Başaran, Jesper Bláfoss Ingvardson, and Otto Anker Nielsen
Enhancing public transportation sustainability: Insights from electric bus scheduling and charge optimization, Foroogh Behnia, Seyyed Sajad Mousavi Nejad Souq, Beth-Anne Schuelke-Leech, and Mitra Mirhassani
Predicting travel demand of a bike sharing system using graph convolutional neural networks, Ali Behroozi and Ali Edrisi
Investigating work commuters mode choice behavior in Dalian city during pandemic: a hybrid choice model approach, Krishna Bhattarai, Shengchuan Zhao, El Bachir Diop, Dong Zhang, and Manmohan Joshi
Can transit apps boost ridership? An empirical study in San Antonio, Texas, Jiahe Bian, Wei Li, and Chanam Lee
Transition to sustainable public transport in Latin America: Evidence from Bogotá, Jorge A. Bonilla
Deploying bus bypasses in dense, congested cities: Practical findings from simulations and abstractions, Nadav Bronicki, Jean Doig Godier, and Michael J. Cassidy
Public transport and the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative analysis of trends and policies in Great Britain, Germany, the USA, Canada, and Australia, Ralph Buehler, John Pucher, Peter White, and Graham Currie
Valuing improvements to bus universal accessibility for visually impaired users: A case study in Santiago, Chile, Nicolás Cabello, Patricia Galilea, and Juan de Dios Ortúzar
Incorporating mobility-on-demand into public transit in suburban areas: A comparative cost-effectiveness evaluation, Mingming Cai, Lamis Abu Ashour, Qing Shen, and Cynthia Chen
How does the built environment affect transit use under different urban village renewal strategies?, Shiping Cao, Jian Wang, Xiaodan Li, and Binglei Xie
Real-time scheduling optimization for autonomous public transport vehicles to meet booking demands, Zhichao Cao, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, and Silin Zhang
Transport quality and user perception: Effect of bus station hedonic quality on student trip behavior, Armando Carteni, Ilaria Henke, Antonella Falanga, and Mariarosaria Picone
To what extent walking and biking are substitutes or complements to public transport? Interpretable machine learning findings from the University of Lyon, France, Mehmet Güney Celbiş and Louafi Bouzouina
Next-Generation Transit Signal Priority with Advanced Arrival Time Prediction and Custom Traffic Signal Control Logic, Burak Cesme, Jorge A. Barrios, Peter Koonce, Mark Haines, Peter Furth, Christopher Bame, and Nemanja Dobrota
Exploring attitudinal group differences in preferences for shared e-scooter use and its integration with public transit, Kyung Soo Chae, Sung Hoo Kim, and Xiang Yan
Impact of transit network on local COVID-19 infection risk from the perspectives of global network centrality and local network structure: A case study of Beijing, Hao Chai and Tieshan Sun
Navigating the impact of metro network on bus ridership: Insights into the interdependency between metro and bus systems, Hao Chai, Tieshan Sun, and Tingting Yin
Friend or foe? Exploring the choice preference between E-moped sharing and public transport: an integrated heteroskedastic generalized choice and latent variable (IHGLV) approach, Ching-Fu Chen, Chiang Fu, and Ming-Cheng Yen
Passenger arrival patterns and its implications for bus operation: The impact of schedule reading behavior on average waiting times at bus stops, Dongxu Chen, Jie He, Sitong Lin, and Zhongzhen Yang
Comparing accessibility to high-speed rail stations by public transit and cars: A national-scale analysis, Long Cheng, Yuheng Chen, Shengyu He, Zheyuan Wang, Tanhua Jin, and Min Yang
Dynamic sharing of bus lanes before intersections based on a presignal and bus positioning system, Qun Chen, Yuwei Wang, and Jin Qin
Shared use of dedicated lanes by connected and automated buses and private vehicles: A multi-green-wave signal control scheme, Xiaogdong Chen, Hao Guan, and Qiang Meng
Conditional forecasting of bus travel time and passenger occupancy with Bayesian Markov regime-switching vector autoregression, Xiaoxu Chen, Zhanhong Cheng, Alexandra M. Schmidt, and Lijun Sun
Bayesian inference of time-varying origin–destination matrices from boarding and alighting counts for transit services, Xiaoxu Chen, Zhanhong Cheng, and Lijun Sun
Understanding bus delay patterns under different temporal and weather conditions: A Bayesian Gaussian mixture model, Xiaoxu Chen, Saeid Saidi, and Lijun Sun
Exploring the factors shaping attitudes and intentions towards automated buses: Empirical evidence from Northeast England, Corneliu Cotet, Gustav Bösehans, and Dilum Dissanayake
Resilience of public transport in the face of disruptions: Insights from explainable machine learning, Benjamin Cottreau, Mehmet Güney Celbiş, Ouassim Manout, and Louafi Bouzouina
Comparing the efficiency of urban bus systems in Brazil, France, Spain and United States using social, financial, and environmental indicators, Felipe M. Coutinho and Maurício O. de Andrade
Rethinking Transit Safety: Understanding and Addressing Gender-Based Harassment and Enhancing Safety on San Francisco’s Muni Transit System, Greer Cowan and Pearl Liu
Metro ridership recoverability and the built environment: Exploring station-level non-linear impacts, Mengying Cui, Lijie Yu, Zhe Dai, Yuxuan Wu, Yuecheng Wang, and Jason Cao
How will travel time use and perception be modified by autonomous vehicles? Insights from personal driving commuters and public transport commuters, Jingchen Dai, Chenhao Zheng, Wenxin Ma, and Ruimin Li
Analysis of the causal effects of exclusive bus lanes on performance indicators of public transport corridors, Francisco Nilso De Brito-Filho and Francisco Moraes Oliveira-Neto
Socially exclusive patterns in the availability and number of bus stop shelters, Samuel de França Marques
Impacts of vehicle restrictions on urban traffic speeds and transit ridership: an empirical analysis using high-frequency data, Louis de Grange, Raúl Pezoa, and Rodrigo Troncoso
What influences intention to use a first-mile/last-mile automated shuttle service in a suburban area? A case study in Toronto, Canada, Chelsea A. DeGuzman, Toka S. Mostafa, Kareem Othman, Birsen Donmez, Baher Abdulhai, Amer Shalaby, and Jennifer Niece
Assessing complementary and competing interactions between transit and shared transportation modes, Elodie Deschaintres, Catherine Morency, and Martin Trépanier
Complex seasonality in bus urban mobility: assessment of individual and ensemble prediction models, David de Zea-Graells, Manel Grifoll, Miquel Estrada, and Josep Mension
An exact optimization model for the electric bus charging station location problem under inter-station travel time and energy consumption uncertainties, Androniki Dimitriadou, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis, Tao Liu, and Oded Cats
Evidence-based transport policy analysis driven by agent-based simulation: the case of mobility in Ústí nad Labem, Ali Enes Dingil, Andre Maia Pereira, Ondrej Přibyl, and Jakub Vorel
A real-time prediction framework for energy consumption of electric buses using integrated Machine learning algorithms, Changyin Dong, Zhuozhi Xiong, Ni Li, Xinlian Yu, Mingzhang Liang, Chu Zhang, Ye Li, and Hao Wang
The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on bus crash severity, Saba Doulabi, Benjamin Meysohn, and Miles Crumley
Beyond the bus: Unraveling DRT's potential - An ex ante WTP evaluation for replacing ineffective fixed route regional lines, Peter Džupka, Marek Gróf, Radovan Dráb, and Tomáš Štofa
Towards an efficient electric bus system: Multi-phase optimization model for incremental electrification of bus network with uncertain energy consumption, Behnam Davazdah Emami, Yiling Zhang, Alireza Khani, and Ying Song
Toward more reliable public transportation Wi-Fi origin–destination matrices: Modeling errors using synthetic noise and optical counts, Léa Fabre, Caroline Bayart, Alexandre Nicolas, and Patrick Bonnel
Performance assessment of public transport routes: A framework using revealed data, Rupam Fedujwar and Amit Agarwal
The Importance of Deadheads in Assessing the Travel Time Reliability of Buses: Case Study of Brisbane, Australia, Andrea Felea, Jasmine Sinclair, and Kasun Wijayaratna
Hybrid real-time bus bridging optimization tactic for a disrupted railway: fine-tuning routing and temporary-adding routing, Yinfei Feng, Silin Zhang, Yong Yin, Tao Liu, and Zhichao Cao
Coordination costs in spatial matching: Assigned versus onsite transport modes, Andres Fielbaum
Exploiting the flexibility of modular buses in an urban transit system, Carlo Filippi, Gianfranco Guastaroba, Lorenzo Peirano, and M. Grazia Speranza
How Autonomous Bus Trials Affect Passengers’views: Exploring The Gap Between Pre-Ride Expectations And Real Word Experience, Achille Fonzone, Grigorios Fountas, Lucy Downey, and Adebola Olowosegun
Public transit electrification planning with energy storage via second-life batteries – a stochastic programming approach, Sergio Edgar Franco, Jing Wang, Majid Gholami Shirkoohi, Qiao Chen, and Walter Mérida
Behavioural loyalty analysis of bus passengers using multi-source data fusion, Yu Fu, Xiang Wang, Fanrui Meng, Sihan Wang, Yangchen Song, and Yutong Wang
