Submissions from 2023
A review of public transport transfer synchronisation at the real-time control phase, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis, Oded Cats, and Tao Liu
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
Submissions from 2022
Electric buses in England and Sweden – Overcoming barriers to introduction, Malin Aldenius, Caroline Mullen, and Fredrik Pettersson-Löfstedt
Coordinating ride-sourcing and public transport services with a reinforcement learning approach, Siyuan Feng, Peibo Duan, Jintao Ke, and Hai Yang
The intercity railway connections in China: A comparative analysis of high-speed train and conventional train services, Yan Huang and Huiming Zong
Examining factors associated with bike-and-ride (BnR) activities around metro stations in large-scale dockless bikesharing systems, Songhua Hu, Mingyang Chen, Yuan Jiang, Wei Sun, and Chenfeng Xiong
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
Path-oriented synchronized transit scheduling using time-dependent data, Kelvin Lee, Yu Jiang, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, Justin Dauwels, Rong Su, and Otto Anker Nielsen
Train timetabling with the general learning environment and multi-agent deep reinforcement learning, Wenqing Li and Shaoquan Ni
Exploring the effects of passive transit signal priority design on bus rapid transit operation: a microsimulation-based optimization approach, Ying-Chuan Ni, Hsien-Hao Lo, Yu-Ting Hsu, and Hung-Jen Huang
Parameter Sensitivity Analysis of a Cooperative Dynamic Bus Lane System With Connected Vehicles, Meng Xie, Michael Winsor, Tao Ma, Andreas Rau, Fritz Busch, and Constantinos Antoniou
Multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for adaptive coordinated metro service operations with flexible train composition, Cheng-shuo Ying, Andy H.F. Chow, Hoa T.M. Nguyen, and Kwai-Sang Chin
Controlling passenger flow to mitigate the effects of platform overcrowding on train dwell time, Sunhyung Yoo, Hyun Kim, Wongil Kim, Namsun Kim, and Jinwoo (Brian) Lee
Submissions from 2021
Efficiency Based Evaluation of Public Transport and Paratransit Systems with a View to Integrating Transportation, Nandan H. Dawda, Hardik Gajera, Gaurang J. Joshi, Shriniwas S. Arkatkar, and Sanjay Kumar M. Dave
Planning skip-stop services with schedule coordination, Wenbo Fan and Yu Ran
At-stop control measures in public transport: Literature review and research agenda, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis and Oded Cats
Improving the performance of first- and last-mile mobility services through transit coordination, real-time demand prediction, advanced reservations, and trip prioritization, Rick Grahn, Sean Qian, and Chris Hendrickson
Incorporating multimodal coordination into timetabling optimization of the last trains in an urban railway network, Kang Huang, Jianjun Wu, Feixiong Liao, Huijun Sun, Fang He, and Ziyou Gao
Train Scheduling Method to Reduce Substation Energy Consumption and Peak Power of Metro Transit Systems, Bo Jin, Xiaoyun Feng, Qingyuan Wang, Pengfei Sun, and Qian Fang
Equilibrium analyses and operational designs of a coupled market with substitutive and complementary ride-sourcing services to public transits, Jintao Ke, Zheng Zhu, Hai Yang, and Qiaochu He
A holding control strategy for diverging bus lines, Georgios Laskaris, Oded Cats, Erik Jenelius, Marco Rinaldi, and Francesco Viti
Simulation of fixed versus on-demand station-based feeder operations, David Leffler, Wilco Burghout, Erik Jenelius, and Oded Cats
A review of public transport transfer coordination at the tactical planning phase, Tao Liu, Oded Cats, and Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis
Robust optimal predictive control for real-time bus regulation strategy with passenger demand uncertainties in urban rapid transit, Qianqian Ma, Shukai Li, Huiming Zhang, Yin Yuan, and Lixing Yang
Submissions from 2020
Transit timetable synchronization for transfer time minimization, Mojtaba Abdolmaleki, Neda Masoud, and Yafeng Yin
An exact method for the bus dispatching problem in rolling horizons, K. Gkiotsalitis and E. C. van Berkum
Assessing the effect of a light rail transit system on road traffic travel time reliability, Sonu Mathew and Srinivas S. Pulugurtha
A stochastic model for bus injection in an unscheduled public transport service, Diego Morales, Juan Carlos Muñoz, and Pedro Gazmuri
Integrated headway and bus priority control in transit corridors with bidirectional lane segments, Laio Oriel Seman, Luiz Alberto Koehler, Eduardo Componogara, and Werner Kraus Jr.
Demand-driven timetable and stop pattern cooperative optimization on an urban rail transit line, Pan Shang, Ruimin Li, and Liya Yang
Evacuating metro passengers via the urban bus system under uncertain disruption recovery time and heterogeneous risk-taking behaviour, Zhijia Tan, Min Xu, Qiang Meng, and Zhi-Chun Li
Dynamic holding control to avoid bus bunching: A multi-agent deep reinforcement learning framework, Jiawei Wang and Lijun Sun
Submissions from 2019
Verkehrsverbund: The evolution and spread of fully integrated regional public transport in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Ralph Buehler, John Pucher, and Oliver Dümmler
Optimal synchronization and coordination of actual passenger-rail timetables, Zhichao Cao, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, Dewei Li, and Silin Zhang
Timetable synchronization of last trains for urban rail networks with maximum accessibility, Yao Chen, Baohua Mao, Yun Bai, Tin Kin Ho, and Zhujun Li
Modelling and managing bus service regularity with influence of prevailing traffic, Andy H.F. Chow and Shuai Li
Optimizing fare and headway to facilitate timed transfer considering demand elasticity, Md Shoaib Chowdhury and Steven I-Jy Chien
Models and a solution algorithm for planning transfer synchronization of bus timetables, James C. Chu, Kanticha Korsesthakarn, Yu-Ting Hsu, and Hua-Yen Wu
A predictive headway-based bus-holding strategy with dynamic control point selection: A cooperative game theory approach, Zhuang Dai, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Zhuo Chen, Renyong Guo, and Xiaolei Ma
Bayesian network modeling explorations of strategies on reducing perceived transfer time for urban rail transit service improvement in different seasons, Xuesong Feng, Kemeng Li, Chuanchen Ding, and Weixin Hua
Reconciling transfer synchronization and service regularity: real-time control strategies using passenger data, Alexandra Gavriilidou and Oded Cats
Multi-constrained bus holding control in time windows with branch and bound and alternating minimization, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis and Oded Cats
Role of Public Transportation in a Natural Disaster State of Emergency Declaration, Jodi Godfrey, Gennaro Saliceto, and Roberta Yegidis
An approach to improve the operational stability of a bus line by adjusting bus speeds on the dedicated bus lanes, Sheng-Xue He, June Dong, Shi-Dong Liang, and Peng-Cheng Yuan
Coordinated optimization of tram trajectories with arterial signal timing resynchronization, Yuxiong Ji, Yu Tang, Yuchuan Du, and Xi Zhang
Multiline holding based control for lines merging to a shared transit corridor, Georgios Laskaris, Oded Cats, Erik Jenelius, Marco Rinaldi, and Francesco Viti
Coordinated control method to self-equalize bus headways: an analytical method, Shidong Liang, Minghui Ma, Shengxue He, Hu Zhang, and Pengcheng Yuan
Robust dynamic bus controls considering delay disturbances and passenger demand uncertainty, Shukai Li, Ronghui Liu, Lixing Yang, and Ziyou Gao
Social-Transportation Analytic Toolbox (STAT) for Transit Networks, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Ran Wei, Liming Wang, and Aaron Golub
Optimization-based operations control for public transportation service with transfers, Hend Manasra and Tomer Toledo
Multiline Bus Bunching Control via Vehicle Substitution, Antoine Petit, Chao Lei, and Yanfeng Ouyang
Rethinking bus-to-metro accessibility in new town development: Case studies in Shanghai, Shan-shan Wu, Yu Zhuang, Jiayu Chen, Wei Wang, Yunxi Bai, and Siu-ming Lo
Stochastic bus schedule coordination considering demand assignment and rerouting of passengers, Weitiao Wu, Ronghui Liu, Wenzhou Jin, and Changxi Ma
Passenger flow control with multi-station coordination in subway networks: algorithm development and real-world case study, Xinyue Xu, Haiying Li, Jun Liu, Bin Ran, and Lingqiao Qin
Combined line planning and train timetabling for strongly heterogeneous railway lines with direct connections, Fei Yan and Rob M.P. Goverde
Optimizing last trains timetable in the urban rail network: social welfare and synchronization, Haodong Yin, Jianjun Wu, Huijun Sun, Liujiang Kang, and Ronghui Liu
Submissions from 2018
Translating research to practice: Implementing real-time control on high-frequency transit routes, Simon J. Berrebi, Sean Óg Crudden, and Kari E. Watkins
Accounting for uncertainty and variation in accessibility metrics for public transport sketch planning, Matthew Wigginton Conway, Andrew Byrd, and Michael van Eggermond
Towards transfer synchronization of regularity-based bus operations with sequential hill-climbing, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis and Nitin Maslekar
Partnerships between operators and public transport authorities. Working practices in relational contracting and collaborative partnerships, Robert Hrelja, Tom Rye, and Caroline Mullen
Automatic train regulation of complex metro networks with transfer coordination constraints: A distributed optimal control framework, Shukai Li, Xuesong Zhou, Lixing Yang, and Ziyou Gao
Integrating Dynamic Signaling Commands Under Fixed-Block Signaling Systems into Train Dispatching Optimization Problems, Xiaojie Luan, Bart De Schutter, Francesco Corman, and Gabriel Lodewijks
Collaboration in public transport planning – Why, how and what?, Alexander Paulsson, Karolina Isaksson, Claus Hedegaard Sørensen, Robert Hrelja, Tom Rye, and Christina Scholten
A typology of inter-organisational coordination in public transport: The case of timetable planning in Denmark, Claus Hedegaard Sørensen
Transit-oriented autonomous vehicle operation with integrated demand-supply interaction, Jian Wen, Yu Xin Chen, Neema Nassir, and Jinhua Zhao
Two-way-looking self-equalizing headway control for bus operations, Shuyang Zhang and Hong K. Lo
Demand-Driven Transfer Coordination of Last Trains in Metro Network, Feng Zhou, Yanan Li, and Ruihua Xu
Submissions from 2017
Real-Time Bus-Holding Control Strategy to Reduce Passenger Waiting Time, Mohamadamin Asgharzadeh and Yousef Shafahi
Reducing metro trip times and energy consumption through speed control, holding and boarding limits, C. E. Bueno-Cadena and Juan Carlos Muñoz
Real-Time Estimation of Platform Crowding for New York City Subway: Case Study at Wall Street Station on No. 2 and No. 3 Lines in Financial District, Adam Caspari, Brian Levine, Jeffrey Hanft, and Alla Reddy
Coordination of Feeder Bus Schedule with Train Service at Integrated Transport Hubs, Xueping Dou, Xiaolin Gong, Xiucheng Guo, and Tao Tao
Schedule Coordination Method for Last Train Transfer Problem, Xueping Dou and Xiucheng Guo
Railway disruption management challenges and possible solution directions, Nadjla Ghaemi, Oded Cats, and Rob M.P. Goverde
Multiperiod-based timetable optimization for metro transit networks, Xin Guo, Huijun Sun, Jianjun Wu, Jiangang Jin, Jin Zhou, and Ziyou Gao
An investigation of timed transfer coordination using event-based multi agent simulation, Le Minh Kieu, Ashish Bhaskar, Mario Cools, and Edward Chung
An optimization model for integrated planning of railway traffic and network maintenance, Tomas Lidén and Martin Joborn
Real-Time Public Transport Operations: Library of Control Strategies, Mahmood Mahmoodi Nesheli and Avishai (Avi) Ceder
Environmental impacts of public transport systems using real-time control method, Mahmood Mahmoodi Nesheli, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, Farzan Ghavamirad, and Scott Thacker
PANDA: a software tool for improved train dispatching with focus on passenger flows, Ralf Rückert, Martin Lemnian, Christoph Blendinger, Steffen Rechner, and Matthias Müller-Hannemann
Schedule-free high-frequency transit operations, Gabriel E. Sánchez-Martínez, Nigel H.M. Wilson, and Haris N. Koutsopoulos
Joint optimization of tram timetables and signal timing adjustments at intersections, Jungang Shi, Yanshuo Sun, Paul Schonfeld, and Jian Qi
Designing alternative railway timetables under infrastructure maintenance possessions, Sander Van Aken, Nikola Bešinović, and Rob M.P. Goverde
Modelling bus bunching and holding control with vehicle overtaking and distributed passenger boarding behaviour, Weitiao Wu, Ronghui Liu, and Wenzhou Jin
Submissions from 2016
Capacity, information and minority games in public transport, P. C. Bouman, Leo Kroon, Peter Vervest, and Gábor Maróti
Exploring the effects of perceived values, free bus transfer, and penalties on intermodal metro–bus transfer users' intention, Yung-Hsiang Cheng and Wei-Chih Tseng
Bus control strategies in corridors with signalized intersections, Miquel Estrada, Josep Mensión, Josep M. Aymamí, and Laura Torres
Synchronizing different transit lines at common stops considering travel time variability along the day, Omar J. Ibarra-Rojas and Juan Carlos Muñoz
Modeling the first train timetabling problem with minimal missed trains and synchronization time differences in subway networks, Liujiang Kang, Xiaoning Zhu, Huijun Sun, Jakob Puchinger, Mario Ruthmair, and Bin Hu
A self-adaptive method to equalize headways: Numerical analysis and comparison, Shidong Liang, Shuzhi Zhao, Chunxiu Lu, and Minghui Ma
Communication-Based Cooperative Control Strategy for Public Transport Transfer Synchronization, Tao Liu and Avishai (Avi) Ceder
Synchronization of Public Transport Timetabling with Multiple Vehicle Types, Tao Liu and Avishai (Avi) Ceder
Use of Real-Time Operational Tactics to Synchronize Transfers in Headway-Based Public Transport Service, Mahmood Mahmoodi Nesheli and Avishai (Avi) Ceder
Real-time holding control for high-frequency transit with dynamics, Gabriel E. Sánchez-Martínez, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, and Nigel H.M. Wilson
Designing robust schedule coordination scheme for transit networks with safety control margins, Weitiao Wu, Ronghui Liu, and Wenzhou Jin
Multi-objective re-synchronizing of bus timetable: Model, complexity and solution, Yinghui Wu, Hai Yang, Jiafu Tang, and Yang Yu
Submissions from 2015
Designing the Modern Multimodal Urban Arterial: Case Study of the Webster Avenue Bus Rapid Transit Project, Eric B. Beaton, Evan Bialostozky, Patrick Dougherty, Taylor Reiss Gouge, and Theodore V. Orosz
Bus service time estimation model for a curbside bus stop, Bomin Bian, Ning Zhu, Shuai Ling, and Shoufeng Ma
Bus schedule coordination for the last train service in an intermodal bus-and-train transport network, Xueping Dou, Qiang Meng, and Xiucheng Guo
Improving Transit Integration Among Multiple Providers, Volume I: Transit Integration Manual, Joey Goldman, Gail Murray, Cathleen Sullivan, Bethany Whitaker, Mark Chase, Alexandra Reisman, Nancy Whelan, and Tina Spencer
Real-time bus route state forecasting using particle filter and mesoscopic modeling, Etienne Hans, Nicolas Chiabaut, Ludovic Leclercq, and Robert L. Bertini