Submissions from 2024
Optimizing transport frequency in multi-layered urban transportation networks for pandemic prevention, Calum MacRury, Nykyta Polituchyi, Paweł Prałat, Kinga Siuta, and Przemysław Szufel
Evolution of Mode Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: Implications for the Future of Transit, Tassio B. Magassy, Irfan Batur, Aupal Mondal, Katherine E. Asmussen, Chandra R. Bhat, Deborah Salon, Matthew Bhagat-Conway, Mohammadjavad Javadinasr, Rishabh Chauhan, Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian, Sybil Derrible, and Ram M. Pendyala
Spatial Inequity of Transit and Automobile Access Gap across America for Underserved Population, Sanju Maharjan, Fatemeh Janatabadi, and Alireza Ermagun
Neighborhood change and transit ridership: Evidence from Los Angeles and Orange Counties, Michael Manville, Hannah King, Juan Matute, and Theodore Lau
Joint Model of Transit Usage Frequency and In-Vehicle Safety Perception During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Sk. Md. Mashrur, Brenden Lavoie, Kaili Wang, Patrick Loa, and Khandker Nurul Habib
Evaluation of Driver Comprehension and Compliance of Red-Colored Pavement Markings for Transit Lanes in Portland, Oregon, Nathan McNeil, Christopher Monsere, and Jennifer Dill
Demographic Breakdown of Transit Rider Satisfaction, Bianca Mers, Kari Watkins, and Michael Hunter
Innovative On-Demand Transit for First-Mile Trips: A Cutting-Edge Approach, Seyed Mehdi Meshkani, Siavash Farazmand, Nizar Bouguila, and Zachary Patterson
Cost analysis of different vehicle technologies for semi-flexible transit operations, Sushreeta Mishra and Babak Mehran
Does dockless bike-share influence transit use? Evidence from the Sacramento region, Hossain Mohiuddin, Tatsuya Fukushige, Dillon T. Fitch-Polse, and Susan L. Handy
Using Geographically Weighted Models to Explore Temporal and Spatial Varying Impacts on Commute Trip Change Resulting from COVID-19, Saeed Saleh Namadi, Behnam Tahmasbi, Asal Mehditabrizi, Aref Darzi, and Deb Niemeier
Transit Agency Assessment of Their Capability to Adopt New Mobility Strategies, Sarah Nastasi, Candace Brakewood, Michael Hunter, and Kari Watkins
Does it matter if you like it? exploring the relationship between travel mode choice, preference, and satisfaction, Hisham Negm, Jonas De Vos, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Exploring the changes in the interrelation between public transit mode share and accessibility across income groups in major Canadian cities in the post-pandemic era, Hisham Negm and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Early Pandemic Behaviors and the Role of Vaccines in Reversing Pandemic Mobility Trends: Evidence from a U.S. Panel, Hassan Obeid, Michael Anderson, Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, Meiqing Li, Madeleine Parker, Drake Hayes, Karen Frick, Daniel Rodriguez, Daniel Chatman, Raja Sengupta, and Joan Walker
Will you ride the train? A combined home-work spatial segmentation approach, Vincent Obry-Legros and Geneviève Boisjoly
Mobility justice or transit boosterism? The use of rail transit as an urban transformation strategy in Kitchener, Canada, and Malmö, Sweden, Lina Olsson and Ren Thomas
Retailer Behavior Near Fixed Transit Lines in Los Angeles: A Spatial Autoregressive Probit Model to Evaluate Retail Clustering, Craig T. Olwert, Chih-Hao Wang, Vicente Arellano, and David Oulrey
Examining ride sourcing services as an emerging mode in Metro Vancouver: Insights into trip characteristics and impacts on multimodal competitions, Felita Ong, Patrick Loa, and Khandker Nurul Habib
Ride-sourcing demand in Metro Vancouver: Looking through the lens of disability, Felita Ong, Patrick Loa, and Khandker Nurul Habib
The WCTRS global subway efficiency benchmarking task force inaugural report: The key findings, lessons learned, policy issues investigated, Tae Hoon Oum, Kun Wang, Chunyan Yu, Pierlugi Coppola, Luigi Castagna, Hironori Kato, Yiping Le, Xiao Luo, Suhui Gan, Kyungtaek Kim, Woojin Kim, Gopal Patil, Vinayak Gaur, Giovanni Circella, Hossain Mohiuddin, Maria Carolina Lecompte, and Clark Lim
Facing the future of transit ridership: shifting attitudes towards public transit and auto ownership among transit riders during COVID-19, Matthew Palm, Jeff Allen, Yixue Zhang, Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Brice Batomen, Steven Farber, and Michael Widener
Assessing Bike-Transit Accessibility, Reid Passmore, Kari Watkins, and Randall Guensler
The Multimodal Accessibility Target (MAT), Zachary Patterson, Aaron Bensmihen, and Gavin Hermanson
Life cycle thinking-based analysis of diesel and electric-powered buses for Canadian transit systems, Bhuwan Paudel, Kasun Hewage, Sandun Wannniarachchi, Piyaruwan Perera, Gyan Chhipi-Shrestha, and Rehan Sadiq
Pandemic transit: examining transit use changes and equity implications in Boston, Houston, and Los Angeles, Julene Paul and Brian D. Taylor
Mobility Energy Productivity Evaluation of On-Demand Transit: A Case Study in Arlington, Texas, Bonnie Powell, Sailesh Acharya, Ruqayya Zakaria, Rick Grahn, Alejandro Henao, and Stanley E. Young
Examining Transit Activity Data from StreetLight Using Ridership Data from Virginia Transit Agencies, Afrida Raida, Peter B. Ohlms, and T. Donna Chen
If You Cut It Will They Ride? Longitudinal Examination of the Elasticity of Public Transport Ridership in the Post-Pandemic Era, Paul Redelmeier and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Riding transit to parks in Utah: Motivations, constraints, negotiations, and policy recommendations, Alessandro Rigolon, Keunhyun Park, Dong-ah Choi, and Yiyang Wang
Transit-oriented development and bikeability: Classifying public transport station areas in Montreal, Canada, Arianna Robillard, Geneviève Boisjoly, and Dea van Lierop
Opinions matter: Contrasting perceptions of major public transit projects in Montréal, Canada, Lancelot Rodrigue, Aryana Soliz, Kevin Manaugh, Yan Kestens, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Crowding multipliers on shared transportation in New York City: The effects of COVID-19 and implications for a sustainable future, Tomás Rossetti and Ricardo A. Daziano
Toolkit for the Assessment of Safety at Bus Stops, Jimoku H. Salum, Ntagwanko Kisabanzira, Priyanka Alluri, and Thobias Sando
Investigating the Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Perception of Residential Accessibility in Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Saeed Shakib, Jason Hawkins, and Khandker Nurul Habib
Effects of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions on zonal transit demand: Evidence from a low-density city, Mysore Narasimhamurthy Sharath, Phani Kumar Patnala, Babak Mehran, and Jonathan Regehr
Examining the performance of transit systems in large US metropolitan areas, Matan E. Singer, Aviv L. Cohen-Zada, and Karel Martens
A joint analysis of accessibility and household trip frequencies by travel mode, Abhilash C. Singh, Ahmadreza Faghih Imani, Aruna Sivakumar, Yang Luma Xi, and Eric J. Miller
Optimizing dynamic wireless charging for electric buses: A data-driven approach to infrastructure planning, Ruixiao Sun, Qi Luo, and Yuche Chen
The Road Less Traveled: Does Rail Transit Matter?, Tao Tao, Jason Cao, and Xinyi Wu
Racial Representation and Diversity on Non-Elected Transit Advisory Bodies, Noah Thoron
Quantifying weather-induced unreliable public transportation service in cold regions under future climate model scenarios, Xuelin Tian, Chen Lu, Ziyang Song, Chunjiang An, Shuyan Wan, He Peng, Qi Feng, and Zhikun Chen
Segmenting transit ridership: From crisis to opportunity, Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, Matthew Palm, and Steven Farber
Bikeshare–Metrorail Integration in Washington, D.C.: What are the Characteristics of Neighborhoods that Encourage Capital Bikeshare Trips to and from the Metrorail?, Md Shazalal Tushar and Ralph Buehler
Sources of subway PM2.5: Investigation of a system with limited mechanical ventilation, Keith Van Ryswyk, Ryan Kulka, Cheol-Heon Jeong, Angelos T. Anastasopolos, Tim Shin, Peter Blanchard, Danielle Veikle, and Greg J. Evans
Associations of walkability, regional and transit accessibility around home and workplace with active and sedentary travel, Behram Wali, Lawrence D. Frank, Brian E. Saelens, Deborah R. Young, Richard T. Meenan, John F. Dickerson, Erin M. Keast, and Stephen P. Fortmann
Incorporating a Public Transit Equity Lens in Evacuation Planning, Veronica Wambura and Stephen D. Wong
Transit to parks initiatives in the U.S. and Canada: Practitioners’ perspectives, Yiyang Wang, Alessandro Rigolon, and Keunhyun Park
A latent class analysis to understand riders’ adoption of on-demand mobility services as a complement to transit, Yiyuan Wang and Qing Shen
Free fare for better air? Evaluating the impacts of free fare public transit on air pollution, Grant Webster
Shared micromobility as a first- and last-mile transit solution? Spatiotemporal insights from a novel dataset, Zehui Yin, Greg Rybarczyk, Anran Zheng, Lin Su, Bingrong Sun, and Xiang Yan
A sequential transit network design algorithm with optimal learning under correlated beliefs, Gyugeun Yoon and Joseph Y.J. Chow
The relationship between the degree of ethnic enclaves and travel mode choices, Seungil Yum
Unsupervised origin-destination flow estimation for analyzing COVID-19 impact on public transport mobility, Lan Zhang and Kaijian Liu
Evaluating equitable Transit-Oriented development (TOD) via the Node-Place-People model, Yingrui Zhao, Songhua Hu, and Ming Zhang
Faster Convergence of Integrated Activity-Based Models in Dynamic Multimodal Transit Assignment Using Macroscopic Road Congestion Estimation, Yuhan Zhou and Hani S. Mahmassani
The app or the cap? Which fare innovation affects bus ridership?, Abubakr Ziedan, Ashley Hightower, Luiz Lima, and Candace Brakewood
Submissions from 2023
A Qualitative Assessment of the Multimodal Passenger Transportation System Response to COVID-19 in New York City, Luis Abreu and Alison Conway
End of the line: The impact of new suburban rail stations on housing prices, Rhea Acuña
Assessment of the First-and-Last-Mile Problem in Underserved Communities: Case Study in Camden City, NJ, Ruqaya Emad Alfaris and Mohammad Jalayer
Transferability of a calibrated microscopic simulation model parameters for operational assessment of transit signal priority, MD Sultan Ali, Henrick Haule, John Kodi, Priyanka Alluri, and Thobias Sando
Are low-income residents disproportionately moving away from transit?, Jeff Allen, Christopher D. Higgins, Daniel Silver, and Steven Farber
Commuter Rail Electrifications That Never Were and What They Teach Us, John G. Allen and Gregory L. Newmark
Assessing cost-effectiveness of alternative bus technologies: Evidence from US transit agencies, Alessandro Avenali, Giuseppe Catalano, Mirko Giagnorio, and Giorgio Matteucci
Electric bus fleet scheduling under travel time and energy consumption uncertainty, Farzad Avishan, İhsan Yanıkoğlu, and Yaseen Alwesabi
Aging in place, stranded in space: An analysis of health care access via public transportation in Elliot Lake, Rachel Barber
Bike share and user motivation: exploring trip substitution choices among bike share users in a North American city, Hugh Bartling
Integrating Public Transit and Shared Micromobility Payments to Improve Transportation Equity in Seattle, WA, Kristen Beale, Bogdan Kapatsila, and Emily Grisé
The effect of bus rapid transit on local home prices, Justin Beaudoin and Justin Tyndall
Does ridesourcing respond to unplanned rail disruptions? A natural experiment analysis of mobility resilience and disparity, Elisa Borowski, Jason Soria, Joseph Schofer, and Amanda Stathopoulos
Developing a multi-criteria prioritization tool to catalyze TOD on publicly owned land areas, Mingming Cai, Arthur Acolin, Anne Vernez Moudon, and Qing Shen
Ridership and Operations Visualization Engine: An Integrated Transit Performance and Passenger Journey Visualization Engine, Nicholas S. Caros, Xiaotong Guo, Anson Stewart, John Attanucci, Nicholas Smith, Dimitris Nioras, Anna Gartsman, and Alissa Zimmer
Multimodal Intersection Signal Timing Considerations Framework, Performance Measures, and Case Study, Burak Cesme, Andrew Hayes, Shuchun Wang, Shannon Warchol, Alice Root, Kush Bhagat, and Nagui Rouphail
Revisit employer-based travel demand management: A longitudinal analysis, Peng Chen and Xiankui Yang
Impacts of built environment on travel behaviors of Generation Z: a longitudinal perspective, Xiaohong Chen, Tianhao Li, and Quan Yuan
Explaining US travel behavior with perceived threat of pandemic, consumer sentiment, and economic policy uncertainty, Junwook Chi
Mitigating Increased Driving after the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis on Mode Share, Travel Demand, and Public Transport Capacity, Francesca Ciuffini, Simone Tengattini, and Alexander York Bigazzi
“Tram Wrong Way” International Experience and Mitigation of Track Switch Errors, Graham Currie, James Reynolds, David Logan, and Kristie L. Young
Three’s a crowd? Examining evolving public transit crowding standards amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Tianxing Dai and Brian D. Taylor
Priority-Based Traffic Signal Coordination System With Multi-Modal Priority and Vehicle Actuation in a Connected Vehicle Environment, Debashis Das, Niraj Vasant Altekar, and K. Larry Head
City Transit Rider Tweets: Understanding Sentiments and Politeness, Subasish Das and Hamsa Abbas Zubaidi
Transit and Active Transportation Use for Non-Commute Travel Among Portland Transit-Oriented Development Residents, Jennifer Dill and Nathan McNeil
Estimating Intermodal Transfer Barriers to Light Rail using Smartcard Data in Seattle, WA, James Eager, Chang-Hee Christine Bae, and Edward D. McCormack
Uncertainty in vulnerability of metro transit networks: A global perspective, Alireza Ermagun, Nazanin Tajik, Fatemeh Janatabadi, and Hani Mahmassani
Optimal charging station locations and durations for a transit route with battery-electric buses: A two-stage stochastic programming approach with consideration of weather conditions, S. Esmaeilnejad, L. Kattan, and S. C. Wirasinghe
Combined Effect of Changes in Transit Service and Changes in Occupancy on Per-Passenger Energy Consumption, Huiying Fan, Hongyu Lu, Ziyi Dai, Reid Passmore, Angshuman Guin, Kari Watkins, and Randall Guensler
Value Capture In Situ: Participation, Evaluation, and Signaling in Kansas City, MO, Lauren Ames Fischer
Riders’ perceptions towards transit bus electrification: Evidence from Salt Lake City, Utah, Konstantinos Flaris, Konstantina Gkritza, Patrick A. Singleton, Antje R.H. Graul, and Ziqi Song
Dynamic Surrogate Trip-Level Energy Model for Electric Bus Transit System Optimization, Ahmed Foda, Moataz Mohamed, and Mohamed Bakr
Detailed Analysis of New York City Subway Pedestrian Incidents From 2019, Daniel Hall, Joe Linogao, Logan Zentz, Greg Shaw, Tom Lamb, and Claran Simms
Examination of New York City Transit’s Bus and Subway Ridership Trends During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Anne Halvorsen, Daniel Wood, Darian Jefferson, Timon Stasko, Jack Hui, and Alla Reddy
Do environmentally sustainable travel behaviours contribute to transportation-related social exclusion?, Attiya Haseeb and Raktim Mitra
Distance deterrence comparison in urban commute among different socioeconomic groups: A normalized linear piece-wise gravity model, Mingyi He, Yuri Bogomolov, Devashish Khulbe, and Stanislav Sobolevsky
Joint optimization of electric bus charging infrastructure, vehicle scheduling, and charging management, Yi He, Zhaocai Liu, and Ziqi Song
Integrating transit and TNC services to improve job accessibility: Scenario analysis with an equity lens, Lingqian Hu and Sai Sun
The impacts of the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) on social equity analysis of public transit reliability, Reyhane Javanmard, Jinhyung Lee, Junghwan Kim, Luyu Liu, and Ehab Diab
Examining the association between bus transit reliability and the number of boarding passengers, L. Sravya Jayanthi, Srinivas S. Pulugurtha, and Raunak Mishra
Is the relationship between bus and light rail transit a competition substitution or a congestion substitution? An empirical study in Seattle, Junfeng Jiao and Yefu Chen
Disparities in the Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Transit Ridership in Austin, Texas, U.S.A, Junfeng Jiao, Kent Hansen, and Amin Azimian
What do riders say and where? The detection and analysis of eyewitness transit tweets, O. Kabbani, W. Klumpenhouwer, T. El-Diraby, and Amer Shalaby
