Submissions from 2018
Constructing Spatiotemporal Load Profiles of Transit Vehicles with Multiple Data Sources, Ding Luo, Loïc Bonnetain, Oded Cats, and Hans van Lint
Spatiotemporal variation in travel regularity through transit user profiling, Ed Manley, Chen Zhong, and Michael Batty
Institutional preparedness to bus tendering in the context of a fragmented liberalized market: Case study of Harare, Zimbabwe, Tatenda Mbara and Smart Dumba
Public transport travel time perception: Effects of socioeconomic characteristics, trip characteristics and facility usage, Meng Meng, Andreas Rau, and Hita Mahardhika
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
Impact of Built Environment on First- and Last-Mile Travel Mode Choice, Baichuan Mo, Yu Shen, and Jinhua Zhao
How worthwhile is it to maximise customer satisfaction in public transport service contracts with a large captive user base? The case of South Africa, Mathetha Mokonyama and Christo Venter
Worse than Baumol's disease: The implications of labor productivity, contracting out, and unionization on transit operation costs, Javier Morales Sarriera, Frederick P. Salvucci, and Jinhua Zhao
Evaluating the Ability of Transit Direct Ridership Models to Forecast Medium-Term Ridership Changes: Evidence from San Francisco, Richard A. Mucci and Gregory D. Erhardt
Will bus travellers walk further for a more frequent service? An international study using a stated preference approach, Corinne Mulley, Chinh Ho, Loan Ho, David Hensher, and John Rose
Does residential property price benefit from light rail in Sydney?, Corinne Mulley, Chi-Hong (Patrick) Tsai, and Liang Ma
Making Transit Count: Performance Measures that Move Transit Projects Forward, NACTO
Multi-level urban form and commuting mode share in rail station areas across the United States; a seemingly unrelated regression approach, Arefeh Nasri and Lei Zhang
A strategy-based recursive path choice model for public transit smart card data, Neema Nassir, Mark Hickman, and Zhen-Liang Ma
Battery Electric Buses—State of the Practice, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Legal Implications of Video Surveillance on Transit Systems, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Optimal asset management strategies for mixed transit fleet, Huan Hoang Ngo, Rohan Shah, and Sabyasachee Mishra
Modelling the net traffic congestion impact of bus operations in Melbourne, Duy Q. Nguyen-Phuoc, Graham Currie, Chris De Gruyter, Inhi Kim, and William Young
Exploring the impact of public transport strikes on travel behavior and traffic congestion, Duy Q. Nguyen-Phuoc, Graham Currie, Chris De Gruyter, and William Young
Level of service and the transit neighbourhood - Observations from Dublin city and suburbs, David O'Connor and Brian Caulfield
Dynamic bus substitution strategy for bunching intervention, Antoine Petit, Yanfeng Ouyang, and Chao Lei
The conditional effects of social influence in transportation mode choice, Susan Pike and Mark Lubell
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
Understanding Human Perception of Bus Fullness: An Empirical Study of Crowdsourced Fullness Ratings and Automatic Passenger Count Data, Xidong Pi, Zhen (Sean) Qian, Aaron Steinfeld, and Yun Huang
Outcomes from new contracts with “strong” incentives for increasing ridership in bus transport in Stockholm, Roger Pyddoke and Hanna Lindgren
Key factors to annual investment in public transportation sector: The case of China, Guo Qiu, Wang (Ato) Xu, and Ling Li
Trade-offs between headway, fare, and real-time bus information under different weather conditions, Md Matiur Rahman, Lina Kattan, and S. C. Wirasinghe
Analysis of bus travel time distributions for varying horizons and real-time applications, Md. Matiur Rahman, S. C. Wirasinghe, and Lina Kattan
Dimensioning reserve bus fleet using life cycle cost models and condition based/predictive maintenance: a case study, Hugo Raposo, José Torres Farinha, Luís Ferreira, and Diego Galar
Developing a national measure for predictable public transport: bus, rail and ferry, S. Rashidi, L. Schmitt, P. Ranjitkar, T. Rabel, S. Sood, L. Baker, V. Ivory, and H. Rezaie
Selecting sustainable electric bus powertrains using multipreference evolutionary algorithms, João P. Ribau, Susana M. Vieira, and Carla M. Silva
Electric bus fleet size and mix problem with optimization of charging infrastructure, Matthias Rogge, Evelien van der Hurk, Allan Larsen, and Dirk Uwe Sauer
Local public transport in Russia: Regulation, ownership and competition, Alexander Ryzhkov
Scheduling lane conversions for bus use on city-wide scales and in time-varying congested traffic, Nathalie Saade, Jean Doig, and Michael J. Cassidy
Passenger's subjective traffic safety, in-vehicle security and emergency management in the driverless shuttle bus in Finland, Arto O. Salonen
Public bus passenger safety evaluations in Ghana: A phenomenological constructivist exploration, Enoch F. Sam, Kris Brijs, Stijn Daniels, Tom Brijs, and Geert Wets
Modelling public bus/minibus transport accident severity in Ghana, Enoch F. Sam, Stijn Daniels, Kris Brijs, Tom Brijs, and Geert Wets
Bus Load Inference and Crowding Performance Evaluation through Disaggregate Analysis of Fare Transaction, Vehicle Location, and Passenger Count Data, Gabriel E. Sánchez-Martínez, Laurel Paget-Seekins, Christopher W. Southwick, and John P. Attanucci
Evaluation of Clustering Algorithms for the Prediction of Trends in Bus Travel Time, Hima Elsa Shaji, Arun K. Tangirala, and Lelitha Vanajakshi
Development of a typical driving cycle for an intra-city hybrid electric bus with a fixed route, Peihong Shen, Zhiguo Zhao, Jingwei Li, and Xiaowen Zhan
Application of a Cost-Allocation Model to Swiss Bus and Train Lines, Marc Sinner, Ulrich Weidmann, and Andrew Nash
Mixed logical dynamical modeling and hybrid model predictive control of public transport operations, Isik Ilber Sirmatel and Nikolas Geroliminis
Remembrance of Cars and Buses Past: How Prior Life Experiences Influence Travel, Michael J. Smart and Nicholas J. Klein
Differences in Control and Regulatory Structures of Public Transport within the United Kingdom and Ireland: Implications for Quality and Effectiveness of Service Delivery, Austin Smyth and Luke Kelleher
Subway network expansion and transit equity: A case study of Gwangju metropolitan area, South Korea, Yena Song, Hyun Kim, Keumsook Lee, and Kwangwon Ahn
Optimal Deployment of Wireless Charging Facilities for an Electric Bus System, Ziqi Song, Zhaocai Liu, and Yi He
Characteristics of Bus Transit Vehicles in the United States: A 30-Year National Trend Analysis, Li Tang, Albert Gan, Fabian Cevallos, and Priyanka Alluri
Water Transit and Ferry-Oriented Development in Sweden: Comparisons with System Trends in Australia, Michael Tanko, Matthew I. Burke, and Harsha Cheemakurthy
To travel or not to travel: ‘Weather’ is the question. Modelling the effect of local weather conditions on bus ridership, Sui Tao, Jonathan Corcoran, Francisco Rowe, and Mark Hickman
Application of smart card data in validating a large-scale multi-modal transit assignment model, Ahmad Tavassoli, Mahmoud Mesbah, and Mark Hickman
Public Transit Leading in Transition to Clean Technology, The American Public Transportation Association (APTA)
Spatial variations in urban public ridership derived from GPS trajectories and smart card data, Wei Tu, Rui Cao, Yang Yue, Baoding Zhou, Qiuping Li, and Qingquan Li
Bus quality improvements and local commuter mode share, Justin Tyndall
Travelers’ preferences regarding the interior of public buses: a hierarchical information integration approach, Peter van der Waerden, Emilie Couwenberg, and Geert Wets
The Relation between Train Access Mode Attributes and Travelers’ Transport Mode-Choice Decisions in the Context of Medium- and Long-Distance Trips in the Netherlands, Peter van der Waerden and Jaap van der Waerden
Is having a positive image of public transit associated with travel satisfaction and continued transit usage? An exploratory study of bus transit, Dea van Lierop and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Optimally combined headway and timetable reliable public transport system, Balázs Varga, Tamás Tettamanti, and Balázs Kulcsár
Development and validation of energy demand uncertainty model for electric city buses, Jari Vepsäläinen, Klaus Kivekäs, Kevin Otto, Antti Lajunen, and Kari Tammi
Developing Dedicated Bus Lane Screening Criteria in Baltimore, Maryland, Adam Vest, Patrick J. McMahon, and Jesus Cuellar
Applying Spatial Aggregation Methods to Identify Opportunities for New Bus Services in London, Cecilia Viggiano, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Nigel H.M. Wilson, and John Attanucci
How many want to drive the bus? Analyzing the number of bids for public transport bus contracts, Andreas Vigren
Bus Capacity Estimation using Stochastic Queuing Models for Isolated Bus Stops in China, Chao Wang, Zhirui Ye, Jon D. Fricker, Yunlong Zhang, and Satish V. Ukkusuri
Optimal bus service design with limited stop services in a travel corridor, David Z.W. Wang, Ashish Nayan, and W. Y. Szeto
Provision of Bus Real-Time Information: Turning Passengers from Being Contributors of Headway Irregularity to Controllers, Pengfei Wang, Xuewu Chen, Wendong Chen, Long Cheng, and Da Lei
Does the Future of Mobility Depend on Public Transportation?, Kari Watkins
Is the mere threat enough? An empirical analysis about competitive tendering as a threat and cost efficiency in public bus transportation, Philipp Wegelin
Modeling the Influence of Weather on Transit Ridership: A Case Study from Brisbane, Australia, Ming Wei, Jonathan Corcoran, Thomas Sigler, and Yan Liu
Optimizing the spatio-temporal deployment of battery electric bus system, Ran Wei, Xiaoyue Liu, Yi Ou, and S. Kiavash Fayyaz
Optimizing Transit Signal Priority Implementation along an Arterial, Kan Wu and S. Ilgin Guler
Using three-factor theory to identify improvement priorities for express and local bus services: An application of regression with dummy variables in the Twin Cities, Xinyi Wu, Jason (Xinyu) Cao, and Joel Huting
Bus drivers’ mood states and reaction abilities at high temperatures, Sun Xianglong, Zhao Hu, Feng Shumin, and Li Zhenning
The role of charging technologies in upscaling the use of electric buses in public transport: Experiences from demonstration projects, Maria Xylia and Semida Silveira
Does bus accessibility affect property prices?, Linchuan Yang, Jiangping Zhou, Oliver F. Shyr, and (Derek) Da Huo
Integrating ridesourcing services with public transit: An evaluation of traveler responses combining revealed and stated preference data, Xiang Yan, Jonathan Levine, and Xilei Zhao
Evaluation of exclusive bus lanes in a tri-modal road network incorporating carpooling behavior, Jia Yao, Zhanhong Cheng, Feng Shi, Shi An, and Jian Wang
Improving predictions of public transport usage during disturbances based on smart card data, Menno D. Yap, S. Nijënstein, and Niels van Oort
Does Roadway Performance Affect Transit Headway Unreliability? Evidence from Mixed-Traffic Transit Corridors in Toronto, Canada, Christopher Yuen and Matthias N. Sweet
A systematic analysis of multimodal transport systems with road space distribution and responsive bus service, Fangni Zhang, Nan Zheng, Hai Yang, and Nikolas Geroliminis
Tailored Wakeby-type distribution for random bus headway adherence ratio, Man Zhang, Qiang Meng, Liujiang Kang, and Wenquan Li
Two-way-looking self-equalizing headway control for bus operations, Shuyang Zhang and Hong K. Lo
Public transport use among the urban and rural elderly in China: Effects of personal, attitudinal, household, social-environment and built-environment factors, Yi Zhang, Wei Wu, Qian He, and Chaoyang Li
Cost of an urban rail ride: A nation-level analysis of ridership, capital costs and cost-effectiveness performance of urban rail transit projects in China, Jinbao Zhao, Chaosu Li, Ruhua Zhang, and Mathew Palmer
Modeling and optimizing urban bus transit considering headway variation for cost and service reliability analysis, Liuhui Zhao, Steven I. Chien, Lazar N. Spasovic, and Xiaobo Liu
Analysing journey-to-work data using complex networks, Guohun Zhu, Jonathan Corcoran, Paul Shyy, Salvatore Flavio Pileggi, and Jane Hunter
Determining transit service coverage by non-motorized accessibility to transit: Case study of applying GPS data in Cincinnati metropolitan area, Ting Zuo, Heng Wei, and Andrew Rohne
Submissions from 2017
Comparing data quality and cost from three modes of on-board transit surveys, Asha Weinsten Agrawal, Stephen Granger-Bevan, Gregory L. Newmark, and Hilary Nixon
Perspectives of travel strategies in light of the new metro and bus networks in Riyadh City, Saudi Arabia, Omar Alotaibi and Dimitris Potoglou
A predictive-control framework to address bus bunching, Matthias Andres and Rahul Nair
Assessing standard costs in local public bus transport: A hybrid cost model, Alessandro Avenali, Andrea Boitani, Giuseppe Catalano, Tiziana D’Alfonso, and Giorgio Matteucci
How network structure can boost and shape the demand for bus transit, Hugo Badia, Juan Argote-Cabanero, and Carlos F. Daganzo
The transition to zero-emission buses in public transport – The need for institutional innovation, Sjoerd Bakker and Rob Konings
Improving Access to Transit through Crowdsourced Information, Sean J. Barbeau
Comparing bus holding methods with and without real-time predictions, Simon J. Berrebi, Etienne Hans, Nicolas Chiabaut, Jorge A. Laval, Ludovic Leclercq, and Kari A. Watkins
Estimating policy values for in-vehicle comfort and crowding reduction in local public transport, Gunilla Björklund and Jan-Erik Swärdh
UrbanAccess: Generalized Methodology for Measuring Regional Accessibility with an Integrated Pedestrian and Transit Network, Samuel D. Blanchard and Paul Waddell
First/last mile transit access as an equity planning issue, Marlon G. Boarnet, Genevieve Giuliano, Yuting Huo, and Eun Jin Shin
Understanding the effects of transit benefits on employees’ travel behavior: Evidence from the New York-New Jersey region, Paola Carolina Bueno, Juan Gomez, Jonathan R. Peters, and Jose Manuel Vassallo
Sharing riders: How bikesharing impacts bus ridership in New York City, Kayleigh B. Campbell and Candace Brakewood
