Submissions from 2025
Data aggregation impacts on built environment-mode share models around public transit stations, Seyed Sajjad Abdollahpour, Huyen T.K. Le, Ralph Buehler, and Steve Hankey
Can governments streamline environmental impact analysis to promote transit-oriented development? Evidence from California, Bailey Affolter, Jamey Volker, Nicholas Marantz, Susan Pike, and Graham DeLeon
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
Understanding bus delay patterns under different temporal and weather conditions: A Bayesian Gaussian mixture model, Xiaoxu Chen, Saeid Saidi, and Lijun Sun
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
Assessing complementary and competing interactions between transit and shared transportation modes, Elodie Deschaintres, Catherine Morency, and Martin Trépanier
Operating subsidies and transit efficiency: applying new metrics to old problems, Christina D. Funk, Michael J. Higgins, and Gregory L. Newmark
Identifying multi-modal deserts: A multivariate outlier detection approach, Yujie Guo and Yu Zhang
Outdoor information panels to convey real-time travel information for transit ridership recovery, Guocheng Jiang, Song Gao, and Eleni Christofa
Optimal coordination of electric buses and battery storage for achieving a 24/7 carbon-free electrified fleet, Justin Luke, Mateus Gheorghe de Castro Ribeiro, Sonia Martin, Emmanuel Balogun, Gustavo Vianna Cezar, Marco Pavone, and Ram Rajagopal
Coverage vs frequency: Is spatial coverage or temporal frequency more impactful on transit ridership?, Torrey Lyons, Reid Ewing, and Guang Tian
Inequitable inefficiency: A case study of rail transit fare policies, Zakhary Mallett
Strategies to Optimize the Deployment of Roadway Maintenance Machines for Overnight Maintenance in Urban Rail Systems, John Takuma Moody, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Michael Eichler, and Yann Ulysse
Strategic sustainability assessment of rideshare and automated vehicles using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), Mark Muller, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Seri Park, Yimin Zhang, Brett Fusco, and Ross Lee
Pathways to sustainable transportation in G-20 countries: Unveiling the role of green technology, green energy, green finance and digital economy using panel data and machine learning analyses, Manel Ouni, Sonia Mrad, and Rafaa Mraihi
A Case Study of Ridership and Equity Implications of All-Day Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Commuter Rail Service, Samuel S. Polzin, Megan Willis-Jackson, Phil White, Karl Meakin, and Martha Koch
Assessing the impact of the new Mexico cable car on air pollution, Juan Prieto-Rodriguez, Jose Ignacio Azuela-Flores, Daniel Groft, Maria Jose Perez-Villadoniga, and Rafael Salas
Towards a better understanding of changes in cost per riders for bus routes before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Montréal, Canada, Lancelot Rodrigue, Kevin Manaugh, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Bridging the gap: A social equity analysis of intra-city transit access to inter-city rail in Canada, Henry Shaver, Junghwan Kim, Ehab Diab, and Jinhyung Lee
Energy intensity, GHG and pollutant emissions of freight and passenger rail applications in the United States, Choudhury Siddique, Yan Zhou, Amgad Elgowainy, Md Rakibul Alam, and Melissa Shurland
Exploring mobility of care with measures of accessibility, Anastasia Soukhov, Nicholas Mooney, and Léa Ravensbergen
Resilience and adaptability: The evolving roles of Bikeshare to public transport amid pandemic disruptions, Xiaozheng Sun and Xu Cui
How bikesharing changed destination distance for its users: A case study of Chicago Metropolitan Area, Shubhayan Ukil and Aditi Misra
Hierarchical Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Process models for discrete choice: Mode choice in New York City, Daniel F. Villarraga and Ricardo A. Daziano
Modeling ride-hailing and carsharing adoption & use patterns: deciphering the substitutive and complementary impacts of built environment, transit accessibility, & active travel, Behram Wali, Paolo Santi, and Carlo Ratti
Dynamic interlining in bus operations, Seyedmostafa Zahedi, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, and Zhenliang Ma
Submissions from 2024
Built environment’s nonlinear effects on mode shares around BRT and rail stations, Seyed Sajjad Abdollahpour, Ralph Buehler, Huyen T.K. Le, Arefeh Nasri, and Steve Hankey
Choice of Current and Voltage for North American Commuter Rail Electrifications, John G. Allen
Using Twitter to Gauge Customer Satisfaction Response to a Major Transit Service Change in Calgary, Canada, Rami Al-Sahar, Willem Klumpenhouwer, Amer Shalaby, and Tamer El-Diraby
Equity and accessibility assessment of fixed route transit systems integrated with on-demand feeder services, Avani Aravind, Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, and Sabyasachee Mishra
Do affluent neighbourhoods pay more for transit access? Exploring the capitalization of employment accessibility within different housing submarkets in Vancouver, Robert Nutifafa Arku, Christopher D. Higgins, Jaimy Fischer, and Steven Farber
Assessing spatial and racial equity of subway accessibility: Case study of New York City, Amirhossein Baghestani, Mohyeddin Nikbakht, Yana Kucheva, and Ali Afshar
Re-envisioning the Park-and-Ride concept for the automated vehicle (AV) era with Private-to-Shared AV transfer stations, Younghun Bahk, Michael Hyland, and Sunghi An
Inclusion and Exclusion in Establishing the Delmar Loop Transit-Oriented Development Site, Qwayne Marshall Baker
Effect of beliefs and attitudes on public transport users’ choices. The moderating role of perceived intermodal connectivity, Monika Bąk, Przemysław Borkowski, and Michał Suchanek
Leveraging Location-Based Services Data to Optimize Generation of High-Demand and Equitable Bus Network Options, David Baumgartner, Vir Chachra, Matthew Ciborowski, Zoe Temco, Dalia Leven, Amy Liu Pathak, Alissa Zimmer, and Doug Johnson
Who uses transit in the journey to work? Multimodality, equity, and planning implications in México City, Dorian Antonio Bautista-Hernández and Alejandra Trejo Nieto
Preserving Sustainability Gains of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of MIT Campus Commuting, Alex Berke, Ronan Doorley, Luis Alfonso, and Kent Larson
Monetary cost, time cost, and mode choice: Transit and ridehailing in California, Marlon G. Boarnet, Qifan Shao, and Clemens A. Pilgram
Walkable and Safe Route to Transit for Pedestrians in Greater Montréal: An Environmental Justice Approach, Philippe Brodeur-Ouimet and Marie-Soleil Cloutier
Impact of Station Design and Passengers Flow on Urban Rail Dwell Time: A Systemwide Analysis Using APC and AVL Data, Suryakant Buchunde, Saeid Saidi, and Shervin Ataeian
Standing strong? The causal impact of metro stations on service firms’ survival, Marie-Pier Champagne, Jean Dubé, and Diègo Legros
Incorporating Rail Potential and Equity Analysis into Market Analyses for Rail Investments: A Case Study of the Link21 Program in Northern California, Derek Cheah, Andrew Tang, and Elisa Tejedor
The sustainability appeal of urban rail transit, Enhui Chen, Yang Liu, Min Yang, Zhirui Ye, and Yu (Marco) Nie
Multimodality incentivized by employer-based travel demand management, Peng Chen
Trends in Toronto’s Subway Ridership Recovery: An Exploratory Analysis of Wi-Fi Records, Roger Chen, Amer Shalaby, and Diego Da Silva
Modulated spatiotemporal clustering of smart card users, Rémi Decouvelaere, Martin Trépanier, and Bruno Agard
ChatGPT for GTFS: benchmarking LLMs on GTFS semantics... and retrieval, Saipraneeth Devunuri, Shirin Qiam, and Lewis J. Lehe
Bus Operation Safety Business Intelligence Solution: Applying Analytics for Key Performance Indicator, Investigation, and Targeted Actions Analyses with a Centralized Data Warehouse, Xiaotong Ding, John Maleyeff, and Frans Valk
An integrated causal framework to evaluate uplift value with an example on change in public transport supply, Jean Dubé, Julie Le Gallo, François Des Rosiers, Diègo Legros, and Marie-Pier Champagne
From “Big Small Town” to “Small Big City”: Resident Experiences of Gentrification along Waterloo Region’s LRT Corridor, Margaret Ellis-Young and Brian Doucet
Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Framework for Determining Public Microtransit Service Zones, Sevgi Erdoğan, Amir Nohekhan, Alibi Shokputov, and Kaveh Farokhi Sadabadi
Disproportionate impact of weekday-to-weekend transit service cuts on access for disadvantaged populations, Alireza Ermagun and Elysia Koury
Transit access effectiveness in American metropolitan areas, Alireza Ermagun and Frank Witlox
Assessing the Risks Associated with the Canadian Railway System Using a Safety Risk Model Approach, Nafiseh Esmaeeli, Fereshteh Sattari, Lianne Lefsrud, and Renato Macciotta
The impacts of optimization approaches on BEB system configuration in transit, Ahmed Foda and Moataz Mohamed
Synergizing shared micromobility and public transit towards an equitable multimodal transportation network, Jing Gao and Sen Li
Correlates of Modal Substitution and Induced Travel of Ridehailing in California, James Giller, Mischa Young, and Giovanni Circella
Constructing a routable multimodal, multi-cost, time-dependent network model with all emerging mobility options: Methodology and case studies, Lindsay K. Graff, Katherine A. Flanigan, and Sean Qian
Using Wi-Fi Connection Data to Analyze Performance of the Subway System in Toronto, Canada, Aidan Grenville, Willem Klumpenhouwer, and Amer Shalaby
Analyzing adverse effects of subway extension on housing prices in affluent urban neighborhoods, ChengHe Guan, Meizi You, Ying Li, Junjie Tan, and Christina Jenq
Analysis of spatiotemporal transit accessibility and transit inequity of essential services in low-density cities, a case study of Nashville, TN, Jing Guo and Candace Brakewood
Evaluating Equity: A Method for Analyzing the Transit Accessibility of Affordable Housing Units, Jing Guo, Candace Brakewood, Ashley Hightower, and Christopher Cherry
Navigate through the haze: Wildfire smoke exposure and Metrorail ridership, Xianru Han, Haoluan Wang, and Jiaao Yu
Line-Specific Energy Modeling Framework for Urban Rail Transit Systems: A Case Study of Boston, Zhuo Han, Eric Gonzales, Eleni Christofa, and Jimi Oke
Travel behaviour changes among young adults and associated implications for social sustainability, Attiya Haseeb and Raktim Mitra
Modelling changes in accessibility and property values associated with the King Street Transit Priority Corridor project in Toronto, Christopher D. Higgins, Robert N. Arku, Steven Farber, and Eric J. Miller
A data-driven conceptual framework for understanding the nature of hazards in railway accidents, Wei-Ting Hong, Geoffrey Clifton, and John D. Nelson
Are public transit investments based on accurate forecasts? An analysis of the improving trend of transit ridership forecasts in the United States, Jawad Mahmud Hoque, Ian Zhang, David Schmitt, and Gregory D. Erhardt
Fusing Repeated Cross-Sectional Revealed Preference Datasets based on Rational Inattention Theory: Accounting for Changing Modal Preferences, Sanjana Hossain and Khandker Nurul Habib
Causal identification of transit-induced property value uplift in Canada's Waterloo Region: A spatio-temporal difference-in-differences method application, Yu Huang, Dawn Cassandra Parker, Robert Babin, and Fanhua Kong
Guiding principles for integrating on-demand transit into conventional transit networks: A review of literature and practice, Alaa Itani, Willem Klumpenhouwer, Amer Shalaby, and Brendon Hemily
Use of High-Resolution Signal Controller Data to Measure Transit Signal Priority Performance: A Case Study in the Boston Region, Jay Jackson, Ruochang Huang, Peter Koonce, and Eric Burkman
Toward a Better Understanding of the Construction Impacts of a Light Rail System in Montréal, Canada, Megan James, Lancelot Rodrigue, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Coupling shared E-scooters and public transit: a spatial and temporal analysis, Mohammadjavad Javadiansr, Amir Davatgari, Ehsan Rahimi, Motahare Mohammadi, Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, and Joshua Auld
Evaluating the impacts of supply-demand dynamics and distance decay effects on public transit project assessment: A study of healthcare accessibility and inequalities, Reyhane Javanmard, Jinhyung Lee, Kyusik Kim, Jinwoo Park, and Ehab Diab
Bus rapid transit as arterial corridor traffic calming: The relationship between transit infrastructure and motor vehicle operating speeds, Ashish Ravi Joshi, Nicholas N. Ferenchak, and Lisa L. Losada-Rojas
Assessing mode-specific transport affordability in a car-centric city, Bogdan Kapatsila, Damian Collins, and Emily Grisé
Empirical analysis of battery-electric bus transit operations in Portland, OR, USA, Bogdan Kapatsila, Emily Grisé, Miles Crumley, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
If you build it, who will come? Exploring the effects of rapid transit on residential movements in Metro Vancouver, Bogdan Kapatsila, Jordan D. Rea, and Emily Grisé
Undercutting Transit? Exploring Potential Competition Between Automated Vehicles and Public Transportation in the United States, Leah Kaplan and John Paul Helveston
Transit Safety System Evaluation and Hotspot Identification Empowered by Edge Computing Transit Event Logging System, Ruimin Ke, Jerome M. Lutin, Yinhai Wang, Zhiyong Cui, Shuyi Yin, Yifan Zhuang, and Hao (Frank) Yang
Investigating Anticipated Changes in Post-Pandemic Travel Behavior: Latent Segmentation-Based Logit Modeling Approach Using Data From COVID-19 Era, Nazmul Arefin Khan and Catherine Morency
Examining the socio-spatial patterns of bus shelters with deep learning analysis of street-view images: A case study of 20 cities in the U.S., Junghwan Kim, Jinhyung Park, Jinhyung Lee, and Kee Moon Jang
Impact of “light” bus rapid transit (BRT-light) on traffic and emissions in a travel corridor, Junsik Kim and Reid Ewing
Terra Incognita: California Transit Agency Perspectives on Demand, Service, and Finance in the Age of COVID-19, Hannah King, Jacob L. Wasserman, and Brian D. Taylor
Integrated charging scheduling and operational control for an electric bus network, Rémi Lacombe, Nikolce Murgovski, Sébastien Gros, and Balázs Kulcsár
MetRoBERTa: Leveraging Traditional Customer Relationship Management Data to Develop a Transit-Topic-Aware Language Model, Michael Leong, Awad Abdelhalim, Jude Ha, Diane Patterson, Gabriel L. Pincus, Anthony B. Harris, Michael Eichler, and Jinhua Zhao
A collective incentive strategy to manage ridership rebound and consumer surplus in mass transit systems, Zhiyuan Liang, Yili Tang, Jianing Yu, and Yacan Wang
Navigating the transit network: Understanding riders’ information seeking behavior using trip planning data, Lisa Li and Amer Shalaby
Offline planning and online operation of zonal-based flexible transit service under demand uncertainties and dynamic cancellations, Manzi Li, Enoch Lee, and Hong K. Lo
Marked crosswalks, station area built environments, and transit ridership: Associations between changes in 877 US TOD stations, 2010–2018, Meiqing Li and Daniel A. Rodriguez
Socio-Economic and Spatial Disparity of Bus Ridership Impacts in King County, Washington, During COVID-19, Joanne Yuh-Jye Lin, Cynthia Chen, and Ohay Angah
Measuring the impacts of disruptions on public transit accessibility and reliability, Luyu Liu, Adam Porr, and Harvey J. Miller
Impacts of public transit delays and disruptions on equity seeking groups in Toronto – A time-expanded graph approach, Rick Zhaoju Liu and Amer Shalaby
Effects of new transit lines on commuting: Evidence from restricted-use Census Bureau microdata, Wei Li, Haotian Zhong, and Marlon G. Boarnet
Documenting #MeToo in Public Transportation: Sexual Harassment Experiences of University Students in Los Angeles, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Madeline Brozen, Miriam Pinski, and Hao Ding
Partial Electrification Strategies for Diesel Commuter Rail’s Climate Challenge, Alex Lu, John G. Allen, Stuart F. Trout, and John P. Aurelius
Analysis of spatial interactions among shared e-scooters, shared bikes, and public transit, Muyang Lu, Elizabeth J. Traut, S. Ilgin Guler, and Xianbiao Hu
