Submissions from 2011
Field Testing and Evaluation of a Wireless-Based Transit Signal Priority System, Chen-fu Liao and Gary A. Davis
Evaluating Public Transit As An Energy Conservation and Emission Reduction Strategy, Todd Litman
Conjoint Analysis Based Transit Service Quality Research, Jianrong Liu, Wei Deng, and Bing Zhang
Spectator Arrival and Departure Traffic Mode and Influence Factors in Beijing Olympic Games Opening and Closing Ceremony, Xinhua Liu, Zhuangzhi Sun, and Guangzheng Yao
Evaluation Method about Bus Scheduling Based on Discrete Hopfield Neural Network, Zhiqiang Liu, Li Zhang, Xue Lv, and Jie Chen
Buses involved in fatal accidents factbook 2008, Anne Matteson, Linda Jarossi, and John Woodrooffe
Marginal Cost Pricing and Subsidy of Transit in Small Urban Areas, Jeremy Mattson and David Ripplinger
Optimization of transit priority in the transportation network using a decomposition methodology, Mahmoud Mesbah, Majid Sarvi, Iradj Ouveysi, and Graham Currie
Energy efficiency in local public transport, Pasi Metsäpuro, and Heikki Liimatainen
Are We Reaching Peak Travel? Trends in Passenger Transport in Eight Industrialized Countries, Adam Millard-Ball and Lee Schipper
Predicting the Mean and Variance of Transit Segment and Route Travel Times, Soroush Salek Moghaddam, Reza Noroozi, Jeffrey M. Casello, and Bruce Hellinga
Synthesis of Literature Relating to Cellular Telephone/Personal Digital Assistant Use in Commercial Truck and Bus Operations, Justin F. Morgan, Tammy E. Trimble, Darrell S. Bowman, Stephanie Baker, Racquel Pickett, Dan Murray, and Gene Bergoffen
Positioning needs for public transport, Nicola Mosca and Rocco Zito
Quantifying the role of a flexible transport service in reducing the accessibility gap in low density areas: A case-study in north-west Sydney, Corinne Mulley and Rhonda Daniels
Practices to Protect Bus Operators from Passenger Assault, Yuko J. Nakanishi and William C. Fleming
LRT and tram and light rail development in Eastern European cities: dreams and reality, Csaba Orosz, Tibor Princz-Jakovics, and Péter Bocz
Efficacy of Public Private Partnership (PPP) for City Bus Operations: experience from Indian cities, Laghu Parashar and Gaurav Kumar Dubey
Bus service reform in Melbourne – the last 5 years, Peter Parker
Designing a home-to-work bus service in a metropolitan area, Alessandro Perugia, Luigi Moccia, Jean-François Cordeau, and Gilbert Laporte
A new micro-simulation approach to model the impacts of bus and traffic incidents on bus performance - the bus operators' perspective, Polyvios Polyviou
Exploration of Transit's Sustainability Competitiveness, Steven Polzin, Steven Reich, and Janet Davis
An Ant System application to the Bus Network Design Problem: an algorithm and a case study, Hossain Poorzahedy and Farshid Safari
Importance of traveler attitudes in the choice of public transportation to work: findings from the Regional Transportation Authority Attitudinal Survey, Yasasvi Popuri, Kimon Proussaloglou, Cemal Ayvalik, Frank Koppelman, and Aimee Lee
An Empirical Investigation of Passenger Wait Time Perceptions, Ioannis Psarros, Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou, and Matthew G. Karlaftis
Identifying Inaccessible Areas with Potential to Enhance Transit Market, Srinivas S. Pulugurtha, Venkata Ramana Duddu, and Rakesh Mora
Injury Risk in Collisions Involving Buses in Alberta, Canada, Md. Matiur Rahman, Lina Kattan, and Richard Tay
Analysis of Contracting for Fixed Route Bus Service, Stephen L. Reich and Janet L. Davis
Tracking Costs of Alternatively Fueled Buses in Florida, Stephen L. Reich and Alexander Kolpakov
What Do Passengers Do During Travel Time? Structured Observations on Buses and Trains, Marie Russell, Rachel Price, Louise Signal, James Stanley, Zachery Gerring, and Jacqueline Cumming
Hybrid predictive control strategy for a public transport system with uncertain demand, Doris Sáez, Cristián E. Cortés, Freddy Milla, Alfreda Núñez, Alejandro Tirachini, and Marcel Riquelme
Timetable-based operation in urban transport: Run-time optimisation and improvements in the operating process, M. Salicrú, C. Fleurent, and J. M. Armengol
Differences in Travel Behavior and Demand Potential of Tram-and Bus-Based Neighborhoods Evidence from a Cluster Analysis, Milena Scherer and Ulrich Weidmann
Guidebook for Evaluating Fuel Choices for Post-2010 Transit Bus Procurements, Science Applications International Corporation
User Evaluations of Intermodal Travel to Work: Exploratory Studies, Steven Silver
Users’ preferences towards innovative and conventional public transport, Paolo Delle Site, Francesco Filippi, and Gabriele Giustiniani
Mobile Transit Information from Universal Design and Crowdsourcing, Aaron Steinfeld, John Zimmerman, Anthony Tomasic, Daisy Yoo, and Rafae Dar Aziz
Stochastic multi-modal transport network under demand uncertainties and adverse weather condition, Agachai Sumalee, Kenetsu Uchida, and William H.K. Lam
Introduction of Reserved Bus Lane Impact on Bus Running Time and On-Time Performance, Julien Surprenant-Legault and Ahmed M. El-Geneidy
Effect of an economical oxidation catalyst formulation on regulated and unregulated pollutants from natural gas fueled heavy duty transit buses, Arvind Thiruvengadam, Daniel K. Carder, Mohan Krishnamurthy, Adewale Oshinuga, and Mridul Gautam
Understanding transit ridership demand for a multi-destination, multimodal transit network in an American Metropolitan area, Gregory L. Thompson, Jeffrey Brown, Torsha Bhattacharya, and Michal Joroszynski
Bus dwell time: the effect of different fare collection systems, bus floor level and age of passengers, Alejandro Tirachini
A Multi-Agent System for Urban Traffic and Buses Regularity Control, Mohamed Tlig and Neïla Bhouri
Using GIS to Identify Pedestrian-Vehicle Crash Hot Spots and Unsafe Bus Stops, Long Tien Truon and Sekhar V.C. Somenahalli
The Effect of City Bus Maneuvers on Wheelchair Movement, Michael J. Turkovich, Linda van Roosmalen, Douglas A. Hobson, and Erik A. Porach
Quality of public transport in times of expenditure reductions: what is important to the public transport user?, B. Ubbels, R. Poppeliers, N. Stroeker, and M. van Haeften
Macroscopic simulation approach of public transport on exclusive lanes, Alejandra Valencia and Rodrigo Fernandez
Appraisal of factors influencing public transport patronage, Judith Wang
Bus Passenger Origin-Destination Estimation and Related Analyses, Wei Wang, John P. Attanucci, and Nigel H.M. Wilson
Where Is My Bus? Impact of mobile real-time information on the perceived and actual wait time of transit riders, Kari Edison Watkins, Brian Ferris, Alan Borning, G. Scott Rutherford, and David Layton
Passing propinquities in the multicultural city: the everyday encounters of bus passengering, Helen F. Wilson
Route layout analysis for express buses, S. C. Wirasinghe and U. Vandebona
Selecting Bus Stops for Accessibility Improvements for Riders with Physical Disabilities, Wanyang Wu, Albert Gan, Fabian Cevallos, and L. David Shen
Dynamic bus holding strategies for schedule reliability: Optimal linear control and performance analysis, Yiguang Xuan, Juan Argote, and Carlos F. Daganzo
Evaluation of urban public transportation efficiency in Kutahya, Turkey, Polat Yaliniz, Safak Bilgic, Yasar Vitosoglu, and Cantekin Turan
Bus arrival time prediction at bus stop with multiple routes, Bin Yu, William H.K. Lam, and Mei Lam Tam
A Genetic Algorithm for the City Coach Station Location and Distribution of Transit Lines, Le Zhang, Xiaoping Qiu, and Li Yang
Development of an Integrated Adaptive Transit Signal Priority (ATSP) and Dynamic Passenger Information (DPI) System, Liping Zhang, Kun Zhou, Jingquan Li, Wei-Bin Zhang, Meng Li, Guoyuan Wu, and Sonja Sun
Design of a user-centric decision support tool for fixed-route bus travel planning, Yuhong Zhou, Jean-Claude Thill, and Zhengdong Huang
Submissions from 2010
Modeling the Spatial Impacts of Public Transport on Traffic Congestion Relief in Melbourne, Australia, Md Aftabuzzaman, Graham Currie, and Majid Sarvi
Impact of regulation on the performances of long-distance transport services: A comparison of the different approaches in Sweden and Norway, Gunnar Alexandersson, Steffan Hultén, Nils Fearnley, and Frode Longva
Guidebook for Recruiting, Developing, and Retaining Transit Managers for Fixed-Route Bus and Paratransit Systems, Lance Anderson, Candace Blair Cronin, Daniel Fien-Helfman, Michelle Pohl, Brian Cronin, Ream Lazaro, Valerie Lazaro, and Anne Singleton
Study of the impact of exclusive bus lane under highly heterogeneous traffic condition, V. Thamizh Arasan and P. Vedagiri
The 2008 New Zealand public transport management act: Rationale, key provisions, and parallels with the United Kingdom, David P. Ashmore and Andrew D. Mellor
Operator changes through competitive tendering: Empirical evidence from German local bus transport, Katrin Augustin and Matthias Walter
Impacts of free concessionary travel: Case study of an English rural region, Stuart Baker and Peter White
Using intelligent agents for Transportation Regulation Support System design, Flavien Balbo and Suzanne Pinson
Travel Assistance Device (TAD) to Help Transit Riders - Deployment to transit agencies, Sean J. Barbeau, Nevine Labib Georggi, and Philip L. Winters
Global Positioning System Integrated with Personalized Real-Time Transit Information from Automatic Vehicle Location, Sean J. Barbeau, Nevine L. Georggi, and Philip L. Winters
Productivity changes in Portuguese bus companies, Carlos Pestana Barros and Nicholas Peypoch
Transit vehicles’ headway distribution and service irregularity, Giuseppe Bellei and Konstantinos Gkoumas
Public Transportation Services in Oman: A Study of Public Perceptions, Rakesh Belwal and Shweta Belwal
Creating Public Transport Networks for Strategic Transport Modelling from Electronic Timetable Data, Kirk Bendall and Min Xu
Type of Motor Carrier and Driver History in Fatal Bus Crashes, Daniel Blower and Paul E. Green
‘60-20 emission’—The unequal distribution of greenhouse gas emissions from personal, non-business travel in the UK, Christian Brand and John M. Preston
Five-Phase Approach to Improve Design of Printed Transit Information and to Monitor Impact on Customer Satisfaction, Alisdair Cain and Judith Lavelle
Mesoscopic Modeling of Bus Public Transportation, Oded Cats, Wilco Burghout, Tomer Toledo, and Haris N. Koutsopoulos
Dynamic Multi-interval Bus Travel Time Prediction Using Bus Transit Data, Hyunho Chang, Dongjoo Park, Seungjae Lee, Hosang Lee, and Seungkirl Baek
Evacuation Preparedness of Public Transportation in Rural Coast Communities of the North Gulf Region, Jaydeep Chaudhari, Janelle Booth, Zhirui Ye, David Kack, and Benedict Posadas
Effect of bus size and operation to crash occurrences, Deo Chimba, Thobias Sando, and Valerian Kwigizile
Transit network design: A procedure and an application to a large urban area, Ernesto Cipriani, Stefano Gori, and Marco Petrelli
Walking school buses in the Auckland region: A longitudinal assessment, Damian Collins and Robin A. Kearns
Commercial bus speed diagnosis based on GPS-monitored data, Cristian E. Cortés, Jaime Gibson, Antonio Gschwender, Marcela Munizaga, and Mauricio Zúñiga
Hybrid predictive control for real-time optimization of public transport systems’ operations based on evolutionary multi-objective optimization, Cristián E. Cortés, Doris Sáez, Freddy Milla, Alfredo Núñez, and Marcela Riquelme
Perceptions and Realities of Personal Safety on Public Transport for Young People in Melbourne, Graham Currie, Alexa Delbosc, and Sarah Mahmoud
Bus network planning for transfers and the network effect in Melbourne, Australia, Graham Currie and Chris Loader
City Wide Bus Network Restructuring Using An Inclusive Planning Approach, Graham Currie and Knowles Tivendale
Inclusive planning process for citywide bus network restructuring, Graham Currie and Knowles Tivendale
Structure of competitive transit networks, Carlos F. Daganzo
Reducing bunching with bus-to-bus cooperation, Carlos F. Daganzo and Josh Pilachowski
Bus and Rail Transit Preferential Treatments in Mixed Traffic, Alan R. Danaher
Estimating welfare changes from efficient pricing in public bus transit in India, Kaushik Deb and Massimo Filippini
Modelling user perception of bus transit quality, Luigi dell'Olio, Angel Ibeas, and Patricia Cecin
The quality of service desired by public transport users, Luigi dell'Olio, Angel Ibeas, and Patricia Cecin
Evaluating passenger robustness in a rail transit network, Alicia De-Los-Santos, Gilbert Laporte, Juan A. Mesa, and Federico Perea
A methodology for evaluating transit service quality based on subjective and objective measures from the passenger’s point of view, Laura Eboli and Gabriella Mazzulla
How to Capture the Passengers' Point of View on a Transit Service through Rating and Choice Options, Laura Eboli and Gabriella Mazzulla
Influence of Platform Height, Door Width, and Fare Collection on Bus Dwell Time Laboratory Evidence for Santiago de Chile, Rodrigo Fernández, Pablo Zegers, Gustavo Weber, and Nick Tyler
Workshop report – Public transport markets in development, Brendan Finn and Jackie Walters
Using GIS for Measuring Transit Stop Accessibility Considering Actual Pedestrian Road Network, Mohamed A. Foda and Ahmed O. Osman
