Submissions from 2019
Satisfaction with crowding and other attributes in public transport, Maria Börjesson and Isak Rubensson
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
Multiline holding based control for lines merging to a shared transit corridor, Georgios Laskaris, Oded Cats, Erik Jenelius, Marco Rinaldi, and Francesco Viti
Coordinated control method to self-equalize bus headways: an analytical method, Shidong Liang, Minghui Ma, Shengxue He, Hu Zhang, and Pengcheng Yuan
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
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
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
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
Local public transport in Russia: Regulation, ownership and competition, Alexander Ryzhkov
Bus Load Inference and Crowding Performance Evaluation through Disaggregate Analysis of Fare Transaction, Vehicle Location, and Passenger Count Data, Gabriel E. Sánchez-Martínez, Laurel Paget-Seekins, Christopher W. Southwick, and John P. Attanucci
Equity-oriented skip-stopping schedule optimization in an oversaturated urban rail transit network, Pan Shang, Ruimin Li, Zhiyong Liu, Liya Yang, and Yuqiang Wang
Service-oriented train timetabling with collaborative passenger flow control on an oversaturated metro line: An integer linear optimization approach, Jungang Shi, Lixing Yang, Jing Yang, and Ziyou Gao
Mixed logical dynamical modeling and hybrid model predictive control of public transport operations, Isik Ilber Sirmatel and Nikolas Geroliminis
Differences in Control and Regulatory Structures of Public Transport within the United Kingdom and Ireland: Implications for Quality and Effectiveness of Service Delivery, Austin Smyth and Luke Kelleher
Enhancing flexible transport services with demand-anticipatory insertion heuristics, Matti van Engelen, Oded Cats, Henk Post, and Karen Aardal
Applying Spatial Aggregation Methods to Identify Opportunities for New Bus Services in London, Cecilia Viggiano, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Nigel H.M. Wilson, and John Attanucci
Using three-factor theory to identify improvement priorities for express and local bus services: An application of regression with dummy variables in the Twin Cities, Xinyi Wu, Jason Cao, and Joel Huting
Managing rail transit peak-hour congestion with a fare-reward scheme, Hai Yang and Yili Tang
Does Roadway Performance Affect Transit Headway Unreliability? Evidence from Mixed-Traffic Transit Corridors in Toronto, Canada, Christopher Yuen and Matthias N. Sweet
Evaluation of urban public transport priority performance based on the improved TOPSIS method: A case study of Wuhan, Xiuxia Zhang, Qingnian Zhang, Tingting Sun, Yongchao Zou, and Huanwan Chen
A slack arrival strategy to promote flex-route transit services, Yue Zheng, Wenquan Li, and Feng Qiu
Submissions from 2017
Rescheduling through stop-skipping in dense railway systems, Estelle Altazin, Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès, François Ramond, and Sabine Tréfond
A fuzzy-based multi-dimensional and multi-period service quality evaluation outline for rail transit systems, Nezir Aydin
Recommendation of a New Transit Performance Measure in the National Transit Database, Fatemeh Baratian-Ghorghi and Hossein Ahmadianyazdi
An ontology-based framework to support performance monitoring in public transport systems, Filippo Benvenuti, Claudia Diamantini, Domenico Potena, and Emanuele Storti
Comparing bus holding methods with and without real-time predictions, Simon J. Berrebi, Etienne Hans, Nicolas Chiabaut, Jorge A. Laval, Ludovic Leclercq, and Kari A. Watkins
Weather and rail delays: Analysis of metropolitan rail in Dublin, William Brazil, Arthur White, Maria Nogal, Brian Caulfield, Alan O'Connor, and Craig Morton
Assessment Methods from Around the World Potentially Useful for Public Transport Projects, Eric Bruun and Marianne Vanderschuren
Robust routing and timetabling in complex railway stations, Sofie Burggraeve and Pieter Vansteenwegen
Priority Areas of Intervention for Improving Urban Bus Services: Experience in Kolkata, India, Munavar Fairooz Cheranchery and Bhargab Maitra
Route effect on the perception of public transport services quality, Jorge Chica-Olmo, Héctor Gachs-Sánchez, and Carmen Lizarraga
Influencing Longitudinal Passenger Distribution on Railway Platforms to Shorten and Regularize Train Dwell Times, Zoi Christoforou, Pierre-Adrien Collet, Bachar Kabalan, Fabien Leurent, Axelle de Feraudy, Awzan Ali, Thilo Jessaï Arakelian-von Freeden, and Yuelu Li
A heuristic method for a congested capacitated transit assignment model with strategies, Esteve Codina and Francisca Rosell
Understanding the distribution characteristics of bus speed based on geocoded data, Yuchuan Du, Fuwen Deng, Feixiong Liao, and Yuxiong Ji
Get on board: Assessing an all-door boarding pilot project in Montreal, Canada, Ahmed El-Geneidy, Dea van Lierop, Emily Grisé, Geneviève Boisjoly, Derrick Swallow, Lesley Fordham, and Thomas Herrmann
Foothill Transit Battery Electric Bus Demonstration Results: Second Report, Leslie Eudy and Matthew Jeffers
Simulation-Based Comparison of Holding Strategies for a Multibranch Light Rail Service, Joshua J. Fabian and Gabriel E. Sánchez-Martínez
Railway disruption management challenges and possible solution directions, Nadjla Ghaemi, Oded Cats, and Rob M.P. Goverde
Development of a performance measurement system to choose the most efficient programs, the case of the Mashhad transportation system, Ali Gholami and Maysam Ziaee
Evaluating the relationship between socially (dis)advantaged neighbourhoods and customer satisfaction of bus service in London, U.K., Emily Grisé and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Comparing Chinese and Non-Chinese Bus Rapid Transit Systems: Evidence from Evaluating Global Systems on the Basis of Bus Rapid Transit Design Indicators, Pablo Guarda, Juan Miguel Velásquez, Thet Hein Tun, Xumei Chen, and Guo Zhong
Bus travel time prediction using a time-space discretization approach, B. Anil Kumar, Lelitha Vanajakshi, and Shankar C. Subramanian
Balance of efficiency and robustness in passenger railway timetables, Yusin Lee, Li-Sin Lu, Mei-Ling Wu, and Dung-Ying Lin
Impact of Different Bus Stop Designs on Bus Operating Time Components, Xiaodong Liu, Yao Yang, Meng Meng, and Andreas Rau
A Fuzzy AHP Approach to Compare Transit System Performance in US Urbanized Areas, Xin Li, Yingling Fan, John W. Shaw, and Yunlei Qi
Transport resilience: The Occupy Central Movement in Hong Kong from another perspective, Becky P.Y. Loo and Kevin Y.K. Leung
Designing Limited-Stop Transit Service with Fixed Fleet Size in Peak Hours by Exploiting Transit Data, Xiaoling Luo, Yangsheng Jiang, Zhihong Yao, Youhua Tang, and Yuan Liu
Railway transit services in Algiers: priority improvement actions based on users perceptions, José Luis Machado-León, Rocío de Oña, Tahar Baouni, and Juan de Oña
What influences the decision to use automated public transport? Using UTAUT to understand public acceptance of automated road transport systems, Ruth Madigan, Tyron Louw, Marc Wilbrink, Anna Schieben, and Natasha Merat
Planning Approaches in Contracted Fixed-Route Bus Transit Service in the United States: Private Sector’s Role in the Planning Process and Its Influence on Performance Outcomes, Joel Mendez and Jeffrey R. Brown
Determinants of bus rapid transit (BRT) system revenue and effectiveness – A global benchmarking exercise, Rico Merkert, Corinne Mulley, and Md Mahbubul Hakim
Real-Time Public Transport Operations: Library of Control Strategies, Mahmood Mahmoodi Nesheli and Avishai (Avi) Ceder