Submissions from 2019
Evaluation of Bus-Bicycle and Bus/Right-Turn Traffic Delays and Conflicts, Katherine L. Keeling, Travis B. Glick, Miles Crumley, and Miguel A. Figliozzi
Light rail transit and housing markets in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina: Announcement and operations effects using quasi-experimental methods, Yue Ke and Konstantina Gkritza
More than travel time: New accessibility index capturing the connectivity of transit services, Junghwan Kim and Bumsoo Lee
Preferences for travel-based multitasking: Evidence from a survey among public transit users in the Chicago metropolitan area, Rico Krueger, Taha H. Rashidi, and Joshua Auld
Transit Route Origin–Destination Matrix Estimation using Compressed Sensing, Pramesh Kumar, Alireza Khani, and Gary A. Davis
Demonstrating Transit Schedule Benefits with a Dedicated Short-Range Communication-Based Connected Vehicle System, Blaine D. Leonard, Jamie Mackey, Michael Sheffield, David Bassett, Shawn Larson, and Ivan Hooper
A linear program for optimal integration of shared autonomous vehicles with public transit, Michael W. Levin, Michael Odell, Shaluka Samarasena, and Adam Schwartz
Characterizing the Importance of Criminal Factors Affecting Bus Ridership using Random Forest Ensemble Algorithm, Qing Li, Fengxiang Qiao, Andrew Mao, and Catherine McCreight
Impact of Time-Varying Passenger Loading on Conventional and Electrified Transit Bus Energy Consumption, Luying Liu, Andrew Kotz, Aditya Salapaka, Eric Miller, and William F. Northrop
Social-Transportation Analytic Toolbox (STAT) for Transit Networks, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Ran Wei, Liming Wang, and Aaron Golub
Stochastic on-time arrival problem in transit networks, Yang Liu, Sebastien Blandin, and Samitha Samaranayake
Economic Analysis of On-Route Fast Charging for Battery Electric Buses: Case Study in Utah, Zhaocai Liu, Ziqi Song, and Yi He
“Three Ps in a MOD:” Role for mobility on demand (MOD) public-private partnerships in public transit provision, Emma Lucken, Karen Trapenberg Frick, and Susan A. Shaheen
Modeling the Effect of New Commuter Bus Service on Demand and Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Application to Greater Boston, Christopher Lyman, Nicholas Campbell, Eric J. Gonzales, and Eleni Christofa
Do transportation network companies reduce public transit use in the U.S.?, Narendra Malalgoda and Siew Hoon Lim
How do activities conducted while commuting influence mode choice? Using revealed preference models to inform public transportation advantage and autonomous vehicle scenarios, Aliaksandr Malokin, Giovanni Circella, and Patricia L. Mokhtarian
A dynamic ridesharing dispatch and idle vehicle repositioning strategy with integrated transit transfers, Tai-Yu Ma, Saeid Rasulkhani, Joseph Y.J. Chow, and Sylvain Klein
Estimating the Impacts of Capital Bikeshare on Metrorail Ridership in the Washington Metropolitan Area, Ting Ma and Gerrit-Jan Knaap
The Relationship between Streetcars and Development Activity: An Examination of Portland and Seattle, Joel Mendez and Jeffrey R. Brown
Extreme weather, public transport ridership and moderating effect of bus stop shelters, Qing Miao, Eric W. Welch, and P. S. Sriraj
Optimizing transit maintenance and rehabilitation to support human development and sustainability: A case study of Costa Rica’s railroad network, Alireza Mohammadi, Feras Elsaid, and Luis Amador-Jiminez
Does demand for subway ridership in Manhattan depend on the rainfall events?, Shirin Najafabadi, Ali Hamidi, Mahdieh Allahviranloo, and Naresh Devineni
Partnerships Between Transit Agencies and Transportation Network Companies, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Streetcars and Real Estate Rents with Implications for Transit and Land Use Planning, Arthur C. Nelson and Robert Hibberb
Express busways and economic development: Case study of the Miami-Dade South Express Busway, Arthur C. Nelson and Robert Hibberd
Light rail transit and economic recovery: A case of resilience or transformation?, Arthur C. Nelson, Philip Stoker, and Robert Hibberd
US Commuter Rail Renaissance: A 30-Year Progress Report, David O. Nelson and Katherine K. O'Neil
Urban bus ridership, income, and extreme weather events, Nicole S. Ngo
Understanding the factors that influence the probability and time to streetcar bunching incidents, Paula Nguyen, Ehab Diab, and Amer Shalaby
Life cycle assessment of city buses powered by electricity, hydrogenated vegetable oil or diesel, Anders Nordelöf, Mia Romare, and Johan Tivander
An econometric investigation of the influence of transit passes on transit users’ behavior in Toronto, Khandker Nurul Habib and Sami Hasnine
Public transit cost efficiency studies: The impact of non-contracting regulations, K. Obeng
Assessing Transit-Oriented Development Implementation in Canadian Cities: An Urban Project Approach, Florence Paulhiac Scherrer
A general formulation for multi-modal dynamic traffic assignment considering multi-class vehicles, public transit and parking, Xidong Pi, Wei Ma, and Zhen (Sean) Qian
Understanding Ridership Trends in Transit, Steven E. Polzin and Jodi Godfey
Analysis of transit users’ waiting tolerance in response to unplanned service disruptions, Ehsan Rahimi, Ali Shamshiripour, Ramin Shabanpour, Abolfazl Mohammadian, and Joshua Auld
Controlling for endogeneity between bus headway and bus ridership: A case study of the Orlando region, Moshiur Rahman, Shamsunnahar Yasmin, and Naveen Eluru
Evaluating the impact of a newly added commuter rail system on bus ridership: a grouped ordered logit model approach, Moshiur Rahman, Shamsunnahar Yasmin, and Naveen Eluru
Examining determinants of rail ridership: a case study of the Orlando SunRail system, Moshiur Rahman, Shamsunnahar Yasmin, and Naveen Eluru
Security and Safety of Rail Transit Tunnels, Anna M. Rakoczy, Stephen T. Wilk, and MaryClara Jones
The role of habit and residential location in travel behavior change programs, a field experiment, Kelcie M. Ralph and Anne E. Brown
The Politics of Prioritizing Transit on City Streets, Rosalie Singerman Ray
The opportunities and tensions of historic preservation and transit oriented development (TOD), John L. Renne and David Listokin
Development of a neighborhood commute mode share model using nationally-available data, Robert J. Schneider, Lingqian Hu, and Joseph Stefanich
Uber Economics: Evaluating the Monetary and Travel Time Trade-Offs of Transportation Network Companies and Transit Service in Chicago, Illinois, Joseph P. Schwieterman
FTA Market Conditions Research: Recommendations for Improving Transit Industry Cost Estimation, Rizwan Shah, Haley S. Orvedal, Matthew Gilstrap, and Maya Sarna
The Real Estate Mantra- Locate Near Public Transportation, Preeti Shankar, Linda Young, Peter Haas, and Paul Esling
Ridership Ramp-Up? Initial Ridership Variation on New Rail Transit Projects, Jill Elizabeth Shinn and Carole Turley Voulgaris
Multimodal travel-based multitasking during the commute: Who does what?, Patrick A. Singleton
Exploring public transport sustainability with neutrosophic logic, Phillip Smith
Effects of transit signal priority on traffic safety: Interrupted time series analysis of Portland, Oregon, implementations, Yu Song and David Noyce
Incorporating Product Choice into Transit Fare Policy Scenario Models, Andrew Stuntz, John Attanucci, and Fredrick P. Salvucci
Operational planning of public transit with economic and environmental goals: application to the Minneapolis–St. Paul bus system, Bixuan Sun and Jeffrey Apland
Identifying commonly used and potentially unsafe transit transfers with crowdsourcing, Elizabeth J. Traut and Aaron Steinfeld
Free-floating carsharing and extemporaneous public transit substitution, Justin Tyndall
Connected Vehicle (CV) Infrastructure – Urban Bus Operational Safety Platform Project Report, Dave Valentine, Anthony Polinori, Matt Windholtz, Bill Gibbs, Dave Neumeister, Greg Baumgarden, and Ben Paselsky
Humanizing Transit Data: Connecting Customer Experience Statistics to Individuals’ Unique Transit Stories, Dea van Lierop, Jasmine Eftekhari, Aislin O'Hara, and Yuval Grinspun
How just is transportation justice theory? The issues of paternalism and production, Thomas Vanoutrive and Erin Cooper
Assessing the Evolution of Transit User Behavior from Smart Card Data, Alexis Viallard, Martin Trépanier, and Catherine Morency
Using Smart Farecard Data to Support Transit Network Restructuring: Findings from Los Angeles, Pragun Vinayak, Zeina Wafa, Conan Cheung, Stephen Tu, Anurag Komanduri, Jon Overman, and Doug Goodwin
Managing the Transit Scheduling Workforce A Synthesis of Transit Practice, Michael J. Walk, James P. Cardenas, Kristi Miller, Jessica Alvarez, Sandy Davis, and Peter Hadley
New potential for multimodal connection: exploring the relationship between taxi and transit in New York City (NYC), Fangru Wang and Catherine L. Ross
Analysis of Recent Public Transit Ridership Trends, Kari Watkins, Simon Berrebi, Chandler Diffee, Becca Kiriazes, and David Ederer
A Marvelous Machine: Creative Approaches to Securing Funding and Building Public Support for Streetcar Projects in Four U.S. Cities, James P. Wood and Jeffrey R. Brown
Factors Influencing Adoption of Information Technologies for Public Transportation Project Inspection: A WSDOT Case Study, Julian Yamaura, Stephen T. Muench, and Kim Willoughby
How transit service closures influence bikesharing demand; lessons learned from SafeTrack project in Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Hannah Younes, Arefeh Nasri, Giovanni Baiocchi, and Lei Zhang
Artificial Intelligence-Aided Automated Detection of Railroad Trespassing, Asim Zamar, Baozhang Ren, and Xiang Liu
How does ‘park and ride’ perform? An evaluation using longitudinal data, Xinwei Zhao, Peng Chen, Junfeng Jiao, Xiaohong Chen, and Chris Bischak
Submissions from 2018
Empirical models of transit demand with walk access/egress for planning transit oriented developments around commuter rail stations in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Saidal Akbari, Mohamed Salah Mahmoud, Amer Shalaby, and Khandker M. Nurul Habib
Factors Affecting Travel Demand by Bus: An Empirical Analysis at U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Area Level, Bhuiyan Monwar Alam, Hilary Nixon, and Qiong Zhang
Rails-Next-to-Trails: A Methodology for Selecting Appropriate Safety Treatments at Complex Multimodal Intersections, Anna Bovbjerg Alligood, Manali Sheth, Anne Goodchild, Edward McCormack, and Polina Butrina
A Stated Preference Survey Approach to Understanding Mobility Choices in Light of Shared Mobility Services and Automated Vehicle Technologies in the U.S., Hamidreza Asgari, Xia Jin, and Terrence Corkery
Immigration, Income, and Public Transit Perceptions: Findings from an Intercept Survey, Jesus M. Barajas, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, and Daniel G. Chatman
Closing the Loop: Improving Transit through Crowdsourced Information, Sean J. Barbeau
Causal identification of transit-induced gentrification and spatial spillover effects: The case of the Denver light rail, Eleni Bardaka, Michael S. Delgado, and Raymond J.G.M. Florax
Peer-to-Peer Priority Signal Control Strategy in a Connected Vehicle Environment, Byungho Beak, Mehdi Zamanipour, K. Larry Head, and Blaine Leonard
Translating research to practice: Implementing real-time control on high-frequency transit routes, Simon J. Berrebi, Sean Óg Crudden, and Kari E. Watkins
An analysis of changes to transit accessibility and equity after the opening of a bus rapid transit system in Hartford, Connecticut, Kelly Layne Bertolaccini
Measuring and mapping transit opportunity: An expansion and application of the Transit Opportunity Index, Kelly Bertolaccini, Nicholas E. Lownes, and Sha A. Mamun
The Joint Effects of Income, Vehicle Technology, and Rail Transit Access on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Marlon G. Boarnet, Raphael W. Bostic, Andrew Eisenlohr, Seva Rodnyansky, Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei, and Huê-Tâm Webb Jamme
Invest in the ride: A 14 year longitudinal analysis of the determinants of public transport ridership in 25 North American cities, Geneviève Boisjoly, Emily Grisé, Meadhbh Maguire, Marie-Pier Veillette, Robbin Deboosere, Emma Berrebi, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
The Future of Transit, Dan Boyle
Contracting Fixed-Route Bus Transit Service, Daniel Boyle
Examining the Development Effects of Modern-Era Streetcars: An Assessment of Portland and Seattle, Jeffrey Brown and Joel Mendez
Can Public Transportation Compete with Automated and Connected Cars?, Ralph Buehler
Examining the effect of the Hiawatha LRT on auto use in the Twin Cities, Jason (Xinyu) Cao
When and How Much Did the Green Line LRT Increase Single-Family Housing Values in St. Paul, Minnesota?, Jason (Xinyu) Cao and Shengnan Lou
A comparative analysis of the challenges in measuring transit equity: definitions, interpretations, and limitations, Phillip R. Carleton and J. David Porter
Strategies and Barriers in Effective Bus Lane Implementation and Management: Best Practices for Use in the Greater Washington, D.C. Region, Burak Cesme, Richard Roisman, Ramona Burns, Katie List, Arrianna Koudounas, Jesus Cuellar, Meredyth Sanders, Kevin Lee, and David Miller
Impact assessment of the Internet of Things on feeder transit performance, Shailesh Chandra, R. Thirumaleswara Naik, and Luana Galbeno
Data-Driven Opportunities from an Account-Based Fare Payment System, Raymond Chan, Maulik Vaishnav, Scott Wainwright, Paul Murray, and Alex Cui
Strict and Deep Comparison of Revealed Transit Trip Structure between Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview Household Travel Survey and Smart Cards, Robert Chapleau, Philippe Gaudette, and Tim Spurr
Minimizing the total costs of urban transit systems can reduce greenhouse gas emissions: The case of San Francisco, Han Cheng, Chao Mao, Samer Madanat, and Arpad Horvath
Measure dynamic individual spatial-temporal accessibility by public transit: Integrating time-table and passenger departure time, Shaowu Cheng, Bing Xie, Yiming Bie, Yaping Zhang, and Shen Zhang
A Data-Driven Approach to Prioritizing Bus Schedule Revisions at New York City Transit, Malik Coleman, Lauren Tarte, Steve Chau, Brian Levine, and Alla Reddy
Evaluating equity and accessibility to jobs by public transport across Canada, Robbin Deboosere and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Accessibility-oriented development, Robbin Deboosere, Ahmed El-Geneidy, and David Levinson
Are millennials moving to more urbanized and transit-oriented counties?, Devajyoti Deka
American Complete Streets and Australian SmartRoads: What Can We Learn from Each Other?, Alexa Delbosc, James Reynolds, Wesley Marshall, and Andrew Wall