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
Operating subsidies and transit efficiency: applying new metrics to old problems, Christina D. Funk, Michael J. Higgins, and Gregory L. Newmark
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
Inequitable inefficiency: A case study of rail transit fare policies, Zakhary Mallett
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
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
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
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
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
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
Multimodality incentivized by employer-based travel demand management, Peng Chen
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
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
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
A data-driven conceptual framework for understanding the nature of hazards in railway accidents, Wei-Ting Hong, Geoffrey Clifton, and John D. Nelson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Optimizing transport frequency in multi-layered urban transportation networks for pandemic prevention, Calum MacRury, Nykyta Polituchyi, Paweł Prałat, Kinga Siuta, and Przemysław Szufel
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
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
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
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
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
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
Examining Transit Activity Data from StreetLight Using Ridership Data from Virginia Transit Agencies, Afrida Raida, Peter B. Ohlms, and T. Donna Chen
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
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
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
