Submissions from 2020
A new model for efficiency evaluation of a bus fleet by window analysis in DEA and data mining, Somayeh Alizadeh and Mahsa Safi
An analytical model for controlling disruptions on a metro line, Carlos E. Bueno-Cadena, Juan Carlos Munoz, and Alejandro Tirachini
Minutes Matter: A Bus Transit Service Reliability Guidebook, Alan Danaher, James Wensley, Amy Dunham, Ted Orosz, Ryan Avery, Daniel Turner, Kenneth Cobb, Kari Watkins, Carly Queen, Simon Berrebi, Marlene Connor, and Jim McLaughlin
Empirical Performance Analysis of Bus Speed and Delay at Intersections for Emerging Spot Improvement Programs, Graham Devitt, Mahmood Mahmoodi Nesheli, Ehab Diab, and Amer Shalaby
Scheduling synchronization in urban rail transit networks: Trade-offs between transfer passenger and last train operation, Xin Guo, Jianjun Wu, Huijun Sun, Xin Yang, Jian Gang Jin, and David Z.W. Wang
Fog-based dynamic traffic light control system for improving public transport, Sakhawat Hossan and Naushin Nower
Characterizing co-modality in urban transit systems from a passengers’ perspective, Naima Islam, Md Abu Sufian Talukder, Alex Hainen, and Travis Atkison
Accounting for air pollution emissions and transport policy in the measurement of the efficiency and effectiveness of bus transits, Chao-Chung Kang, Cheng-Min Feng, Bo-Ruei Liao, and Haider A. Khan
The danger zone of express services: When increasing frequencies can deteriorate the level of service, Homero Larrain and Juan Carlos Muñoz
Assessing the vulnerability of urban rail transit network under heavy air pollution: A dynamic vehicle restriction perspective, Fei Ma, Yuan Liang, Kum Fai Yuen, Qipeng Sun, Yujie Zhu, Yixuan Wang, and Wenjing Shi
Petri nets conflicts resolution for performance evaluation and control of urban bus networks: a (max, +)-based approach, Y. Idel Mahjoub, A. Nait-Sidi-Moh, E. Chakir El Alaoui, and A. Tajer
Assessing the effect of a light rail transit system on road traffic travel time reliability, Sonu Mathew and Srinivas S. Pulugurtha
Analytical models for comparing operational costs of regular bus and semi-flexible transit services, Babak Mehran, Yongzhe Yang, and Sushreeta Mishra
Capacity-Constrained Network Performance Model for Urban Rail Systems, Baichuan Mo, Zhenliang Ma, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, and Jinhua Zhao
The adoption of grid transit networks in non-metropolitan contexts, Silvio Nocera, Alberto Fabio, and Federico Cavallaro
On incentives and optimal effort to improve bus transit performance, K. Obeng
How do different payment schemes to operators affect public transport concessions? A microeconomic model, Juan Pablo Sepúlveda and Patricia Galilea
Equity of transit connectivity in Tennessee cities, Ishant Sharma, Sabyasachee Mishra, Mihalis M. Golias, Timothy F. Welch, and Christopher R. Cherry
Decomposing journey times on urban metro systems via semiparametric mixed methods, Ramandeep Singh, Daniel Hörcher, Daniel J. Graham, and Richard J. Anderson
A multi-modal network equilibrium model with captive mode choice and path size logit route choice, Guangchao Wang, Anthony Chen, Songyot Kitthamkesorn, Seungkyu Ryu, Hang Qi, Ziqi Song, and Jianguo Song
Collaborative optimization of last-train timetables with accessibility: A space-time network design based approach, Lixing Yang, Zhen Di, Maged M. Dessouky, Ziyou Gao, and Jungang Shi
Public Transit Service Reliability Assessment using Two-Fluid Model, Seungho Yang, Afnan Ahmad, Peter Y. Park, Gunho Sohn, and Jeremy Krygsman
Evaluation of Subway Bottleneck Mitigation Strategies using Microscopic, Agent-Based Simulation, Jiali Zhou, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, and Saeid Saidi
Submissions from 2019
Stable and robust train routing in station areas with balanced infrastructure capacity occupation, Nikola Bešinović and Rob M.P. Goverde
Satisfaction with crowding and other attributes in public transport, Maria Börjesson and Isak Rubensson
Demonstration and evaluation of an intermittent bus lane strategy, Nicolas Chiabaut and Anais Barcet
Assigning Bus Delay and Predicting Travel Times using Automated Vehicle Location Data, Christy Coghlan, Sina Dabiri, Brian Mayer, Mitch Wagner, Eric Williamson, Michael Eichler, and Naren Ramakrishnan
A predictive headway-based bus-holding strategy with dynamic control point selection: A cooperative game theory approach, Zhuang Dai, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Zhuo Chen, Renyong Guo, and Xiaolei Ma
Public transportation in Great Britain viewed as a complex network, Robin de Regt, Christian von Ferber, Yurij Holovatch, and Mykola Lebovka
Reconciling transfer synchronization and service regularity: real-time control strategies using passenger data, Alexandra Gavriilidou and Oded Cats
Robust Stop-Skipping at the Tactical Planning Stage with Evolutionary Optimization, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis
Multi-constrained bus holding control in time windows with branch and bound and alternating minimization, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis and Oded Cats
Customer Journey Time Metrics for New York City Bus Service using Big Data, Edward Graves, Sunny Zheng, Lauren Tarte, Brian Levine, and Alla Reddy
Passenger-Centric Performance Metrics for the New York City Subway, Anne Halvorsen, Daniel Wood, Timon Stasko, Darian Jefferson, and Alla Reddy
Capacity Estimation of On-Street, Mid-Block, Off-Line Bus Stops Considering Yield-to-Bus Rule, Faheema Hisham, Jonathan M. Bunker, and Ashish Bhaskar
Managing Unplanned Rail Disruptions: Policy Implications and Guidelines Towards an Effective Bus Bridging Strategy, Alaa Itani, Aya Aboudina, Ehab Diab, Siva Srikukenthiran, and Amer Shalaby
Sustainable benchmarking of a public transport system using analytic hierarchy process and fuzzy logic: a case study of Hyderabad, India, Pradeep Chaitanya Jasti and V. Vinayaka Ram
Real time bus travel time prediction using k-NN classifier, B. Anil Kumar, R. Jairam, Shriniwas S. Arkatkar, and Lelitha Vanajakshi
Multiline holding based control for lines merging to a shared transit corridor, Georgios Laskaris, Oded Cats, Erik Jenelius, Marco Rinaldi, and Francesco Viti
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
Bus transit network design with uncertainties on the basis of a metro network: A two-step model framework, Jinpeng Liang, Jianjun Wu, Ziyou Gao, Huijun Sun, Xin Yang, and Hong K. Lo
Robust bus bridging service design under rail transit system disruptions, Jinpeng Liang, Jianjun Wu, Yunchao Qu, Haodong Yin, Xiaobo Qu, and Ziyou Gao
Coordinated control method to self-equalize bus headways: an analytical method, Shidong Liang, Minghui Ma, Shengxue He, Hu Zhang, and Pengcheng Yuan
Passenger assignment and pricing strategy for a passenger railway transportation system, Dung-Ying Lin, Jian-Hua Fang, and Kuan-Ling Huang
Social-Transportation Analytic Toolbox (STAT) for Transit Networks, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Ran Wei, Liming Wang, and Aaron Golub
Considerations for Evaluating Automated Transit Bus Programs, Joseph Luna, Elizabeth Machek, and Sean Peirce
CB-Planner: A bus line planning framework for customized bus systems, Yan Lyu, Chi-Yin Chow, Victor C.S. Lee, Joseph K.Y. Ng, Yanhua Li, and Jia Zeng
Optimization-based operations control for public transportation service with transfers, Hend Manasra and Tomer Toledo
Optimal design of promotion based demand management strategies in urban rail systems, Zhenliang Ma and Haris N. Koutsopoulos
Estimation of Denied Boarding in Urban Rail Systems: Alternative Formulations and Comparative Analysis, Zhenliang Ma, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Yunqing Chen, and Nigel H.M. Wilson
Real-Time Optimal Scheduling Model for Transit System with Flexible Bus Line Length, Mingyang Pei, Peiqun Lin, and Junfeng Ou
Travel Time Reliability Measures Accommodating Scheduling Preferences of Travelers, Mojtaba Rajabi-Bahaabadi, Afshin Shariat-Mohaymany, and Shu Yang
Electrification of urban mobility: The case of catenary-free buses, Riccardo Scarinci, Alessandro Zanarini, and Michel Bierlaire
Ridership Ramp-Up? Initial Ridership Variation on New Rail Transit Projects, Jill Elizabeth Shinn and Carole Turley Voulgaris
Characterizing Journey Time Performance on Urban Metro Systems under Varying Operating Conditions, Ramandeep Singh, Daniel J. Graham, and Richard J. Anderson
New IDEAS for Transit: Transit IDEA Program Annual Report, Transportation Research Board
A data-driven hybrid control framework to improve transit performance, Wensi Wang, Jiaming Liu, Baozhen Yao, Yonglei Jiang, Yunpeng Wang, and Bin Yu
Simulation-based robust optimization of limited-stop bus service with vehicle overtaking and dynamics: A response surface methodology, Weitiao Wu, Ronghui Liu, Wenzhou Jin, and Changxi Ma
Passenger flow control with multi-station coordination in subway networks: algorithm development and real-world case study, Xinyue Xu, Haiying Li, Jun Liu, Bin Ran, and Lingqiao Qin
Combined line planning and train timetabling for strongly heterogeneous railway lines with direct connections, Fei Yan and Rob M.P. Goverde
Performance evaluation and obstacle factors analysis of urban public transport priority, Xiuxia Zhang, Qingnian Zhang, and Tingting Sun
Submissions from 2018
The role and potential of automatic certification to improve the validation of AVM operated public transport services, Giorgio Ambrosino, Claudio Disperati, Saverio Gini, and Lorenzo Mussone
Automatic recognition of “low-quality” vehicles and bus stops in bus services, Benedetto Barabino
High volume bus stop upstream average waiting time for working capacity and quality of service, Jonathan M. Bunker
Optimal infrastructure capacity of automated on-demand rail-bound transit systems, Oded Cats and Jesper Haverkamp
Inter-arrival time distribution of passengers at service facilities in underground subway stations: A case study of the metropolitan city of Chengdu in China, Yanru Chen, Bing Yi, Yangsheng Jiang, Jidong Sun, and M. I.M. Wahab
Investigating perception of captive and choice riders for formulating service standards of ordinary and premium buses in Indian cities, Munavar Fairooz Cheranchery and Bhargab Maitra
Data-driven perspectives for energy efficient operations in railway systems: Current practices and future opportunities, Valerio De Martinis and Francesco Corman
Subway Service Down Again? Assessing the Effects of Subway Service Interruptions on Local Surface Transit Performance, Ehab Diab and Amer Shalaby
Assessing and Improving Operational Strategies for the Benefit of Passengers in Rail-Bound Urban Transport Systems, Anne Durand, Niels Van Oort, and Serge Hoogendoorn
Improving High-Frequency Transit Performance through Headway-Based Dispatching: Development and Implementation of a Real-Time Decision-Support System on a Multi-Branch Light Rail Line, Joshua J. Fabian, Gabriel E. Sánchez-Martínez, and John P. Attanucci
Transit Vehicle Performance Analysis for Service Continuity/Termination: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach, S. Kiavash Fayyaz, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, and Ran Wei
Determinants of loyalty to public transit: A model integrating Satisfaction-Loyalty Theory and Expectation-Confirmation Theory, Xue-mei Fu, Jiang-hua Zhang, and Felix T.S. Chan
Evaluation of Route Changes Utilizing High-Resolution GPS Bus Transit Data, Travis B. Glick and Miguel A. Figliozzi
Using Twitter data for transit performance assessment: a framework for evaluating transit riders’ opinions about quality of service, N. Nima Haghighi, Xiaoyue Cathy Liu, Ran Wei, Wenwen Li, and Hu Shao
The effects of using different output measures in efficiency analysis of public transport operations, Johan Holmgren
Demand imbalances and multi-period public transport supply, Daniel Hörcher and Daniel J. Graham
Using entropy-TOPSIS method to evaluate urban rail transit system operation performance: The China case, Wencheng Huang, Bin Shuai, Yan Sun, Yang Wang, and Eric Antwi
Effect of information contagion during train service disruption for an integrated rail-bus transit system, Wen Hua and Ghim Ping Ong
The Impact of Various Streetcar Types on Passenger Activity and Running Times, Wen Xun Hu, Ehab Diab, Aya Aboudina, and Amer Shalaby
Multi-Agent Simulation of a Demand-Responsive Transit System Operated by Autonomous Vehicles, Benedikt Jäger, Carsten Brickwedde, and Markus Lienkamp
Reinforcement learning approach for coordinated passenger inflow control of urban rail transit in peak hours, Zhibin Jiang, Wei Fan, Wei Liu, Bingqin Zhu, and Jinjing Gu
A parallel algorithm for train rescheduling, Sai Prashanth Josyula, Johanna Törnquist Krasemann, and Lars Lundberg
Bus rapid transit (BRT): A simulation and multi criteria decision making (MCDM) approach, Reza Kiani Mavi, Navid Zarbakhshnia, and Armin Khazraei
An Arterial-Based Transit Signal Priority Control System, Hyeonmi Kim, Yao Cheng, and Gang-Len Chang
An integrated measure of accessibility and reliability of mass transit systems, Hyun Kim and Yena Song
Estimation of rail passenger flow and system utilization with ticket transaction and gate data, Yung-Cheng (Rex) Lai, Chung-Wei Huang, and Yu-Ting Hsu
Measuring Spontaneous Accessibility for Iterative Transit Planning, Matthew Laquidara
Integration of real-time traffic management and train control for rail networks - Part 1: Optimization problems and solution approaches, Xiaojie Luan, Yihui Wang, Bart De Schutter, Lingyun Meng, Gabriel Lodewijks, and Francesco Corman
Modeling network resilience of rail transit under operational incidents, Qing-Chang Lu
Finding service quality improvement opportunities across different typologies of public transit customers, Jose Luis Machado, Rocio de Oña, Francisco Diez-Mesa, and Juan de Oña
Estimation of Passengers Left Behind by Trains in High-Frequency Transit Service Operating Near Capacity, Eli Miller, Gabriel E. Sánchez-Martínez, and Neema Nassir
A technology selection and design model of a semi-rapid transit line, Luigi Moccia, Duncan W. Allen, and Eric C. Bruun
Making Transit Count: Performance Measures that Move Transit Projects Forward, NACTO
Trains and Twitter: Firm generated content, consumer relationship management and message framing, Tahir M. Nisar and Guru Prabhakar
Dynamic bus substitution strategy for bunching intervention, Antoine Petit, Yanfeng Ouyang, and Chao Lei
Understanding Transit System Performance Using AVL-APC Data: An Analytics Platform with Case Studies for the Pittsburgh Region, Xidong Pi, Mark Egge, Jackson Whitmore, Amy Silbermann, and Zhen Sean Qian
Outcomes from new contracts with “strong” incentives for increasing ridership in bus transport in Stockholm, Roger Pyddoke and Hanna Lindgren
Developing a national measure for predictable public transport: bus, rail and ferry, S. Rashidi, L. Schmitt, P. Ranjitkar, T. Rabel, S. Sood, L. Baker, V. Ivory, and H. Rezaie
Selecting sustainable electric bus powertrains using multipreference evolutionary algorithms, João P. Ribau, Susana M. Vieira, and Carla M. Silva