Submissions from 2025
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
Passenger arrival patterns and its implications for bus operation: The impact of schedule reading behavior on average waiting times at bus stops, Dongxu Chen, Jie He, Sitong Lin, and Zhongzhen Yang
Integrated demand-oriented and energy-efficiency train timetabling and rolling stock circulation planning for an urban rail transit line, Yu Huang, Wenliang Zhou, Guangming Xu, and Lianbo Deng
Optimal charging scheduling of an electric bus fleet with photovoltaic-storage-charging stations, Xiuyu Hu, Hailong Li, and Chi Xie
A novel multi-objective evolutionary algorithm for transit network design and frequency-setting problem considering passengers’ choice behaviors under station congestion, Mingzhang Liang, Min Xu, and Shuaian Wang
Electric bus fleet charging management: A robust optimisation framework addressing battery ageing, time-of-use tariffs, and energy consumption uncertainty, Jônatas Augusto Manzolli, João Pedro F. Trovão, and Carlos Henggeler Antunes
Integrating Energy-Efficient Train Control in railway Vertical Alignment Optimization: A novel Mixed-Integer Linear Programming approach, Yichen Sun, Shaoquan Ni, Dingjun Chen, Qing He, Shuangting Xu, Yan Gao, and Tao Chen
Submissions from 2024
Air–rail timetable synchronisation: Improving passenger connections in Europe within and across transportation modes, Clara Buire, Aude Marzuoli, Daniel Delahaye, and Marcel Mongeau
Benchmarking the efficiency of European metros from a production perspective, Luigi Castagna, António Lobo, Pierluigi Coppola, and António Couto
Alliance or Independence? Optimal Operation of Commuter Buses by Suburban Employers Based on Cooperative Game Theory, Dongxu Chen, Shuai Tang, Yu Lin, Xudong Li, and Zhongzhen Yang
An Autonomous Modular Public Transit service, Xi Cheng, Yu (Marco) Nie, and Jane Lin
Adaptive scheduling of mixed bus services with flexible fleet size assignment under demand uncertainty, Andy H.F. Chow, Guang-yu Li, and Cheng-shuo Ying
Economic characteristics of city bus operation with a mixed fleet: the influence of electric buses, Yi-Shih Chung and Yu-Chiun Chiou
Bus Line Shift Behaviour: Evidence of Influential Factors based on Smart Card Data, Leise Kelli de Oliveira, Cassiano Augusto Isler, Gustavo Balieiro, Tulio Lima Lessa Carvalho, and Marco Adriano Littig
Revenue sharing and resource allocation for cooperative multimodal transport systems, Xiaoshu Ding and Sisi Jian
On the relationship between free public transport, stop spacing, and optimal frequencies, Andrés Fielbaum
Beyond the last mile: different spatial strategies to integrate on-demand services into public transport in a simplified city, Andres Fielbaum, Sergio Jara-Díaz, and Javier Alonso-Mora
Improving public transportation via line-based integration of on-demand ridepooling, Andres Fielbaum, Alejandro Tirachini, and Javier Alonso-Mora
Train Operation Scheme of Short-Turning Routing in Urban Rail Transit Based on Passenger Travel, Deqiang He, Yan He, Lang Zhang, Yanjun Chen, Zheng Sun, and Jian Miao
Zero-emission bus economics study, Andreas Heuser, Jordan Nelson, and Daria Rybalka
Multi-objective planning of electric bus systems in cities with trolleybus infrastructure networks, Christina Iliopoulou, Ioannis X. Tassopoulos, and Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou
Distance traveled, transit design and optimal pricing, Sergio Jara-Díaz, Antonio Gschwender, Juan Cristóbal Castro, and Matías Lepe
Life Cycle Comparison of the Environmental and Economic Performance of an Informal Low-Capacity Passenger Transport System, Muhammad Kalifa, Alp Özdemir, and Müfide Banar
Modular vehicle-based transit system for passenger and freight co-modal transportation, Jie Lin and Fangni Zhang
Human-Machine collaborative decision-making approach to scheduling customized buses with flexible departure times, Tao Liu, Hailin You, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis, and Oded Cats
Electric bus charging scheduling problem considering charging infrastructure integrated with solar photovoltaic and energy storage systems, Xiaohan Liu, Sonia Yeh, Patrick Plötz, Wenxi Ma, Feng Li, and Xiaolei Ma
Optimal design of pure battery electric bus system on the grid network, Xin Li, Yanhao Li, Wanying Liu, and Yun Yuan
Cost analysis of different vehicle technologies for semi-flexible transit operations, Sushreeta Mishra and Babak Mehran
On the impact of co-optimizing station locations, trip assignment, and charging schedules for electric buses, Rito Brata Nath, Tarun Rambha, and Maximilian Schiffer
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
Mixed-fleet operation of battery electric bus and hydrogen bus: Considering limited depot size with flexible refueling processes, Yiyang Peng, Guoyuan Li, Min Xu, and Anthony Chen
Forecasting the costs of battery electric buses: A system dynamics model perspective, Alyson L.P. Rodrigues, Peter Wells, Liana Cipcigan, and Sônia Regina da Cal Seixas
Travel Satisfaction of Bus Rapid Transit Users in A Developing Country: The Case of Bhopal City, India, Aditya Saxena, Binayak Choudhury, and Premjeet Das Gupta
Optimizing dynamic wireless charging for electric buses: A data-driven approach to infrastructure planning, Ruixiao Sun, Qi Luo, and Yuche Chen
A study on the possibility of a BUS route network with connections based on an analysis of the efficiency of the BUS route network and resistance OF BUS users to transfer, Yu Suzuki, Satoru Hino, Takafumi Kanno, and Daigo Amemiya
Optimal variable vehicle scheduling strategy for a network of electric buses with fast opportunity charging, Chunyan Tang, He Xue, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, and Ying-En Ge
Multi-Modal Urban Traffic Transfer Schedule Timetable Bi-Objective Optimization: Model, Algorithm, Comparison, and Case Study, Feng Tian, Jie Liang, and Ruihan Chen
Passenger-oriented rolling stock scheduling in the metro system with multiple depots: Network flow based approaches, Entai Wang, Lixing Yang, Jiateng Yin, Jinlei Zhang, and Ziyou Gao
Flexible rolling stock composition strategy in urban rail transit lines: The influences of various train units and station capacities, Pengling Wang, Xiaofang Xiao, and Nils Nießen
Urban rail train timetabling for the end-of-service period with passenger accessibility and operation cost: An advanced benders decomposition algorithm, Fang Wen, Yao Chen, Yun Bai, Qiaozhen Zhu, and Ninghai Li
Integrated timetabling and vehicle scheduling of an intermodal urban transit network: A distributionally robust optimization approach, Dongyang Xia, Jihui Ma, and Sh. Sharif Azadeh
Integrated robust optimization of maintenance windows and train timetables using ADMM-driven and nested simulation heuristic algorithm, Haonan Yang, Shaoquan Ni, Haoyang Huo, Xuze Ye, Miaomiao Lv, Qingpeng Zhang, and Dingjun Chen
Railway line planning with passenger routing: Direct-service network representations and a two-phase solution approach, Zhiyuan Yao, Lei Nie, and Huiling Fu
Optimising modular-autonomous-vehicle transit service employing coupling–decoupling operations plus skip-stop strategy, Jiyu Zhang, Ying-En Ge, Chunyan Tang, and Meisu Zhong
Joint optimization of bus scheduling and seat allocation for reservation-based travel, Chuang Zhu, Jianjun Wu, Xin Guo, Huijun Sun, and Der-Horng Lee
Submissions from 2023
Is unsubsidised energy transition possible? Feasibility of replacing diesel buses with electric ones, Javier Arizcuren-Blasco, Rodrigo Martin-Garcia, and Aurora Ruiz-Rua
A comparative analysis of charging strategies for battery electric buses in wholesale electricity and ancillary services markets, Nico Brinkel, Marle Zijlstra, Ronald van Bezu, Tim van Twuijver, Ioannis Lampropoulos, and Wilfried van Sark
Willingness to pay for COVID-19 mitigation measures in public transport and paratransit in low-income countries, Andrew Bwambale, Chinebuli Uzondu, Mohaimanul Islam, Farzana Rahman, Zahara Batool, Paul Isolo Mukwaya, and Zia Wadud
Adaptive transit design: Optimizing fixed and demand responsive multi-modal transportation via continuous approximation, Giovanni Calabrò, Andrea Araldo, Simon Oh, Ravi Seshadri, Giuseppe Inturri, and Moshe Ben-Akiva
Analyzing the trade-off between minimizing travel times and reducing monetary costs for users in the transit network design, K. I. Cervantes-Sanmiguel, M. V. Chavez-Hernandez, and O. J. Ibarra-Rojas
Cost-effective electric bus resource assignment based on optimized charging and decision robustness, Qiuzi Chen, Chenming Niu, Ran Tu, Tiezhu Li, An Wang, and Dengbo He
Double-battery configuration method for electric bus operation in cold regions, Yuan Cong, Heqi Wang, Yiming Bie, and Jiabin Wu
Joint optimal vehicle and recharging scheduling for mixed bus fleets under limited chargers, Shaohua Cui, Kun Gao, Bin Yu, Zhenliang Ma, and Arsalan Najafi
Integrated optimization of electric bus scheduling and charging planning incorporating flexible charging and timetable shifting strategies, Mengyuan Duan, Feixiong Liao, Geqi Qi, and Wei Guan
Effects on operating costs of adjusting bus departure times during peak-hour traffic in Sweden, Eva-Lena Eriksson, Helene Lidestam, and Lena Winslott Hiselius
Optimization framework for integrated battery electric bus planning and charging scheduling, Pranav Gairola and N. Nezamuddin
Optimizing first- and last-mile public transit services leveraging transportation network companies (TNC), Rick Grahn, Sean Qian, and Chris Hendrickson
Modular vehicle routing for combined passenger and freight transport, Jonas Hatzenbühler, Erik Jenelius, Gyözö Gidófalvi, and Oded Cats
Battery electricity bus charging schedule considering bus journey’s energy consumption estimation, Jia He, Na Yan, Jian Zhang, Tao Wang, Yan-Yan Chen, and Tie-Qiao Tang
Improving service qualities of cyclic line plans considering heterogeneous passenger origin-destination (OD) flow groups, Huaibin Hu, Yixiang Yue, Huiling Fu, and Jiax Li
Integrated optimization of timetable, bus formation, and vehicle scheduling in autonomous modular public transport systems, Zhengke Liu, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Zhenliang Ma, Shen Li, and Xiaolei Ma
Spatial and Temporal Variability of Rail Transit Costs and Cost Effectiveness, Zakhary Mallett
Effect of stochastic vehicle arrival and passenger demand on semi-flexible transit design, Sushreeta Mishra and Babak Mehran
Optimization of headway and bus stop spacing for low demand bus routes, Sushreeta Mishra, Babak Mehran, and Prasanta K. Sahu
A multimodal multi-provider market equilibrium model: A game-theoretic approach, Ali Najmi, Taha H. Rashidi, and Travis Waller
Fixed routing or demand-responsive? Agent-based modelling of autonomous first and last mile services in light-rail systems, Jeppe Rich, Ravi Seshadri, Ali Jamal Jomeh, and Sofus Rasmus Clausen
Designing limited-stop bus services for minimizing operator and user costs under crowding conditions, Mohammad Sadrani, Ahmad Reza Jafarian-Moghaddam, Mohsen Aboutalebi Esfahani, and Amir Masoud Rahimi
Charging Infrastructure and Schedule Planning for a Public Transit Network with a Mixed Fleet of Electric and Diesel Buses, Amirali Soltanpour, Mehrnaz Ghamami, Mahsa Nicknam, Mehdi Ganji, and Wei Tian
Optimisation of a new hybrid transit service with modular autonomous vehicles, Chunyan Tang, Jinqiang Liu, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, and Yu Jiang
Electrification of a citywide bus network: A data-driven micro-simulation approach, Shiqi Wang, Yuze Li, Anthony Chen, and Chengxiang Zhuge
Optimization of unsubsidized and subsidized customized bus services, Siqing Wang, Jian Wang, and Xiaowei Hu
Routing Optimization of Regional Flexible Transit Under the Mixed Demand Mode, Siqing Wang, Jian Wang, Xiaowei Hu, Tingting Dong, and Zhipeng Niu
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
Rail train operation energy-saving optimization based on improved brute-force search, Zongyi Xing, Zhenyu Zhang, Jian Guo, Yong Qin, and Limin Jia
Integrated electric bus timetabling and scheduling problem, Xiaoming Xu, Yanhong Yu, and Jiancheng Long
Integrated optimization of demand-driven timetable, train formation plan and rolling stock circulation with variable running times and dwell times, Yaqiong Zhao, Dewei Li, Yonghao Yin, and Xiaoli Zhao
Trading off costs and service rates in a first-mile ride-sharing service, Minyi Zheng and Giovanni Pantuso
Electric bus charging facility planning with uncertainties: Model formulation and algorithm design, Yu Zhou, Ghim Ping Ong, Qiang Meng, and Haipeng Cui
Submissions from 2022
Approximate multi-objective optimization for integrated bus route design and service frequency setting, Zeke Ahern, Alexander Paz, and Paul Corry
Evaluation of the techno-economic performance of battery electric buses: Case study of a bus line in paris, Hussein Basma, Marc Haddad, Charbel Mansour, Maroun Nemer, and Pascal Stabat
Charging operations in battery electric bus systems considering fleet size variability along the service, Miquel Estrada, Josep Mensión, Miquel Salicrú, and Hugo Badia
Cost Drivers of Electric Bus Contracts: Analysis of 33 Indian Cities, Ravi Gadepalli, Sushmitha Gumireddy, and Prateek Bansal
Optimal frequency setting of metro services in the age of COVID-19 distancing measures, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis and Oded Cats
Subline frequency setting for autonomous minibusses under demand uncertainty, K. Gkiotsalitis, M. Schmidt, and E. van der Hurk
Can transportation network companies replace the bus? An evaluation of shared mobility operating costs, Xavier Harmony
Network design for line-based autonomous bus services, Jonas Hatzenbühler, Oded Cats, and Erik Jenelius
Comparative assessment of zero emission electric and hydrogen buses in Australia, David A. Hensher, Edward Wei, and Camila Balbontin
Battery health-aware and naturalistic data-driven energy management for hybrid electric bus based on TD3 deep reinforcement learning algorithm, Ruchen Huang, Hongwen He, Xuyang Zhao, Yunlong Wang, and Menglin Li
Cost-effectiveness analysis of compressed natural gas implementation in the public bus transit fleet in Delhi, India, Christian Krelling and Madhav G. Badami
Efficiencies of the urban railway lines incorporating financial performance and in-vehicle congestion in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area, Yiping Le, Minami Oka, and Hironori Kato
Measuring and enhancing the connectivity reliability of a rail transit network, Jie Liu, Paul M. Schonfeld, Shuguang Zhan, Qiyuan Peng, and Yuhong Liu
Transit Network Frequency Setting With Multi-Agent Simulation to Capture Activity-Based Mode Substitution, Ziyi Ma and Joseph Y.J. Chow
UK battery electric bus operation: Examining battery degradation, carbon emissions and cost, Teresa McGrath, Luke Blades, Juliana Early, and Andrew Harris
Public transport strategy and epidemic prevention framework in the Context of Covid-19, B. R. Naveen and Anjula Gurtoo
An optimization model for planning limited-stop transit operations, Mahmood Mahmoodi Nesheli, Siva Srikukenthiran, and Amer Shalaby
Passenger Inflow Control Along Rail Corridor for Recurrent Heavy Passenger Flow Mitigation, Hanchuan Pan, Yue Liu, Zhigang Liu, and Hua Hu
A column generation approach for the driver scheduling problem with staff cars, Shyam S.G. Perumal, Jesper Larsen, Richard M. Lusby, Morten Riis, and Tue R.L. Christensen
Optimization of service frequency and vehicle size for automated bus systems with crowding externalities and travel time stochasticity, Mohammad Sadrani, Alejandro Tirachini, and Constantinos Antoniou
Jitney-lite: a flexible-route feeder service for developing countries, Tawit Sangveraphunsiri, Miachael J. Cassidy, and Carlos F. Daganzo
Balancing the GHG emissions and operational costs for a mixed fleet of electric buses and diesel buses, Shuai Shao, Zhijia Tan, Zhiyuan Liu, and Wenlong Shang
