Submissions from 2026
A multidimensional urban transport equity assessment framework: A case of Mumbai, K. T. Sarath, Trupti Mishra, and Rangan Banerjee
How to bridge the older adults' digital divide in using digital travel services? A comparative analysis between ride-hailing and train E-ticket services in China, Huiqian Sun, Peng Jing, Xuemei Fu, and Jiaxin Xu
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
Service quality attributes affecting the satisfaction of KTM Komuter services, Siti Nurbaya Ab.Karim, Masria Mustafa, Suria Haron, and Rusdi Rusli
Teaching mobility, teaching gender in the ladies’ compartments of Mumbai local trains, Arundhathi
Benchmarking the performance of urban rail transit systems: a machine learning application, Farah A. Awad, Daniel J. Graham, Laila AitBihiOuali, Ramandeep Singh, and Alexander Barron
Predicting travel demand of a bike sharing system using graph convolutional neural networks, Ali Behroozi and Ali Edrisi
Supporting urban sustainability through resilient rail transit systems, Wei Bi, Igor Linkov, and Kristen MacAskill
Comparing accessibility to high-speed rail stations by public transit and cars: A national-scale analysis, Long Cheng, Yuheng Chen, Shengyu He, Zheyuan Wang, Tanhua Jin, and Min Yang
Exploring public transport accessibility equity to railway stations under travel time uncertainty, Long Cheng, Jun Han, Xuewu Chen, Kaijie Luo, and Tanhua Jin
Analysis Method for Passenger Congestion Propagation and Network Resilience Changes of Urban Rail Transit under Failures Based on the Improved Susceptible Exposed Infected Recovered Model, Jinyi Chen, Tiezhu Li, Hui Liu, Anan Yang, Jingwen Guo, Tao Wu, and Haibo Chen
Integrated physical and service network design of suburban rail under the coordination of urban rail, Xinmei Chen, Virginie Lurkin, Dian Wang, Qiyuan Peng, and Siyu Tao
Evaluating train drivers’ performance to inform the development of automatic train operation, Baris Cogan, Esther Bosch, Birte Thomas-Friedrich, Helena Wasle, David Schackmann, Christian Klotz, and Birgit Milius
Railway-station-area vitality in response to COVID-19: A case study of diverse Japanese cities, Jiannan Dai, Wenzhe Sun, Qing-Long Lu, Jan-Dirk Schmöcker, and Constantinos Antoniou
Hybrid real-time bus bridging optimization tactic for a disrupted railway: fine-tuning routing and temporary-adding routing, Yinfei Feng, Silin Zhang, Yong Yin, Tao Liu, and Zhichao Cao
Parallel railways and urban sustainability: a comprehensive bayesian evaluation of infrastructure impacts and land use, Yan Gao, Shuangting Xu, Shusheng Yang, Zijun Cao, Xian Wang, Tianlong Zhang, Kai Zou, Dong Liang, Ping Wang, and Qing He
Managing uncertain traffic and societal externalities in a road and rail network: Pricing versus Permits, Kexin Geng, Zhiyuan Liang, Erik T. Verhoef, and Yacan Wang
On solving the suburban commuting problem in megacities: Integrating ridesharing with urban rail transit, Haonan Guo, Yun Wang, Xuedong Yan, and Yu Zhou
Unsupervised anomaly segmentation model for rail damage based on image-inpainting and cold diffusion, Chengjia Han, Yiqing Dong, Maggie Y. Gao, Liwei Dong, and Yaowen Yang
Development, practical challenges, and application of a state-wide transport model system in Australia, David A. Hensher, Chinh Q. Ho, and Edward Wei
Rail-based public transportation service quality and customer satisfaction: a decade of insights and advances, Sanusi Ibrahim, Yinggui Zhang, and Abdulaziz Ahmad
A methodological framework for Resilience as a Service (RaaS) in multimodal urban transportation networks, Sara Jaber, Mostafa Ameli, S.M. Hassan Mahdavi, and Neila Bhouri
Activity-based and agent-based transport model of Melbourne: an open multi-modal transport simulation model for Greater Melbourne, Afshin Jafari, Dhirendra Singh, Alan Both, Mahsa Abdollahyar, Lucy Gunn, Steve Pemberton, and Billie Giles-Corti
Outdoor information panels to convey real-time travel information for transit ridership recovery, Guocheng Jiang, Song Gao, and Eleni Christofa
Biosignal-based attention monitoring for evaluating train driver safety-relevant tasks, Jung Hwan Kim, Yeongjun Kim, Younggeol Cho, Tae Kyun Kim, Tongil Jang, Chanwoo Park, and Seong Keun Kang
Railway expansions and human capital growth: A 20-year causal analysis in Tokyo, Junya Kumagai, Sunbin Yoo, and Shunsuke Managi
Does implicit attitude affect travel mode choice behaviors? A study of customized bus attraction to urban railway riders, Xinyun Lao, Yu Shen, Jing Cao, Yuxiong Ji, and Yuchuan Du
Energy-efficient multi-curve optimization in urban rail transit: Stability enhancement under operational uncertainties and curve adjustments, Deheng Lian, Zebin Chen, Pengli Mo, Ziyou Gao, Andrea D'Ariano, and Lixing Yang
A bi-level optimization model for project scheduling and traffic flow routing in railway networks, Tomas Lidén, Filip Kristofersson, and Martin Aronsson
Understanding rail users' mode choice behavior for first and last mile travel, Seung Jae Lieu and Gulsah Akar
Transit-oriented development and land value capture in China: a public–private partnership perspective, Xiongbin Lin, Kunyao Wei, Qiuling Lin, and Ian MacLachlan
Transit Investment and Income Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, Cathy Yang Liu and Jerry Zhirong Zhao
Multi-sequence spatio-temporal feature fusion network for peak-hour passenger flow prediction in urban rail transit, Lining Liu, Yugang Liu, and Xiaofei Ye
COVID-19’s Impacts on Chicago Transit Authority Rail and Bus Ridership in Northeastern Illinois, Yining Liu, Jesus Osorio, Yanfeng Ouyang, Cemal Ayvalik, and Charles Abraham
Urban morphology and transit-oriented development (TOD): Planning and managing urban change in New Zealand, Yan Li and Kai Gu
A data-driven MPC approach for virtually coupled train set with non-analytic safety distance, Xiaolin Luo, Dongming Wang, Tao Tang, and Hongjie Liu
Inequitable inefficiency: A case study of rail transit fare policies, Zakhary Mallett
The opportunities and challenges in keeping over-rail developments on track, Thomas McKenzie
Investigating the role of preference variation in the perceptions of railway passengers in Great Britain, Fredrik Monsuur, Marcus Enoch, Mohammed Quddus, and Stuart Meek
Strategies to Optimize the Deployment of Roadway Maintenance Machines for Overnight Maintenance in Urban Rail Systems, John Takuma Moody, Haris N. Koutsopoulos, Michael Eichler, and Yann Ulysse
How Has the Paris Rail Public-Transportation Network Recovered After the COVID-19 Pandemic? Applying a Mixture of Regressions Model, Hugues Moreau, Étienne Côme, Allou Samé, and Latifa Oukhellou
A Case Study of Ridership and Equity Implications of All-Day Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Commuter Rail Service, Samuel S. Polzin, Megan Willis-Jackson, Phil White, Karl Meakin, and Martha Koch
Bridging Artificial Intelligence and Railway Cybersecurity: A Comprehensive Anomaly Detection Review, Jingwen Qi and Jian Wang
A neuro-fuzzy and deep learning framework for accurate public transport demand forecasting: Leveraging spatial and temporal factors, Shariat Radfar, Hamidreza Koosha, Ali Gholami, and Atefeh Amindoust
Effects of European Rail Traffic Management System Onboard Version on Running Time, Driver Target Braking, and Driver Workload, Tomas Rosberg
A passenger service revolution? Transport design and passenger experience on Tokyo’s urban railway network, c. 1945–2010, Christoph Schimkowsky
Changes in mode use after residential relocation: Attitudes and the built environment, Katja Schimohr, Eva Heinen, Petter Næss, and Joachim Scheiner
Bridging the gap: A social equity analysis of intra-city transit access to inter-city rail in Canada, Henry Shaver, Junghwan Kim, Ehab Diab, and Jinhyung Lee
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
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
Do I really like to shift to rail? Influence of rail modernisation on passenger preferences, Simona Surmařová, Michaela Neumannová, Vilém Pařil, Martin Vrána, and Jakub Chmelík
Enhancing feeder bus service coverage with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: A case study in Hong Kong, Yang Su and Hai Yang
Opening the tracks: The impact of rail liberalization on ridership growth in the Czech Republic, Zdeněk Tomeš and Vilém Pařil
Estimation of the anticipation effects of the metro project on real estate dynamics in Bogotá, Colombia, C. Erik Vergel-Tovar, Juan Pablo Álvarez, Juan Sebastián García, Simón Mesa, Ingrid Lorena Molano, Leonardo Canon-Rubiano, and Laura M. Correa-Garzón
Modeling ride-hailing and carsharing adoption & use patterns: deciphering the substitutive and complementary impacts of built environment, transit accessibility, & active travel, Behram Wali, Paolo Santi, and Carlo Ratti
Data-driven analysis and modeling of individual longitudinal behavior response to fare incentives in public transport, Leizhen Wang, Xin Chen, Zhenliang Ma, Pengfei Zhang, Baichuan Mo, and Peibo Duan
Integrated optimization of train line planning and timetabling: a new method of changing train operation zone and direct-service of cross-line ODs, Ruxin Wang, Lei Nie, and Yuyan Tan
Investigating demand models with more flexible elasticity functions: empirical insights from rail demand analysis, Mark Wardman
Incorporating principles of justice in transport evaluation: A case of suburban train projects in Santiago de Chile, Hans Werner, Juan Antonio Carrasco, Ignacio Tiznado-Aitken, and Giovanni Vecchio
TOD-related features and station-level ridership: insights from the Jakarta Metropolitan Area, Indonesia, Alyas Widita, Ikaputra, and Dyah T. Widyastuti
Exploring urban railway station-based attractiveness considering demographic-specific demands: Case study of Odakyu line, Japan, Yi Wu, Tianyao Shen, Yifan Li, Mizuki Kita, Yoshikuni Yoshida, Kojiro Sho, Lang Yuan, Ling Yu, Renhe Jiang, and Yin Long
The effects of TOD on economic vitality in the post-COVID-19 era, Longzhu Xiao, Jixiang Liu, and Shanshan Wu
Integrated train rescheduling and speed management in a railway network: A meso-micro approach based on direct multiple shooting and alternating direction method of multipliers, Cong Xiu, Jinyi Pan, Andrea D'Ariano, Shuguang Zhan, Tao Feng, and Qiyuan Peng
Integrating track layout into urban rail vulnerability envelope assessment: A case of Hong Kong rail transit network, Yingying Xu, Yu Gu, Ho-Yin Chan, Yi-Qing Ni, and Anthony Chen
High-dimensional railway vertical alignment optimization using hybrid differential evolution and gradient descent, Dongying Yang, Qing He, Honghui Wang, Yan Gao, Senhao Zhang, Guangle Yao, and Meng Zhou
Bimodal transit design with heterogeneous demand elasticity under different fare structures, Yi Yang, Xinguo Jiang, Yusong Yan, Tao Liu, and Yu Jiang
An advanced learning environment and a scalable deep reinforcement learning approach for rolling stock circulation on urban rail transit line, Yuhua Yang, Haoyang Huo, Nikola Bešinović, Yichen Sun, and Shaoquan Ni
Exploring the Equity Impact: Analyzing the Relationship between Railroad Safety and Sociodemographic Factors, Sara Zahedian, Ateet Maharjan, Michael Gorman, and Mark L. Franz
Transportation corridors and land use interaction: a multi-disciplinary critical review, Chun Zhang, Lu Li, Renwei Liu, and Luay Ahmad
Mobility knowledge graph: review and its application in public transport, Qi Zhang, Zhenliang Ma, Pengfei Zhang, and Erik Jenelius
Deep learning-based short-term origin-destination demand prediction in urban rail transit systems during holidays, Shuxin Zhang, Jinlei Zhang, Congwang Deng, Yonjie Yang, Xing Chen, and Lixing Yang
The effect of urban rail station area development on the vulnerability of city blocks to infectious disease spread, Weitao Zhang, Chun Zhang, and Li Zhang
Spend more but get less: unravelling the causes of bus ridership decline using a data-driven machine learning approach, Yuliang Zhang, Chengcheng Yu, Chao Yang, Wentao Dong, and Wenxiang Li
Unveiling the evolution of urban rail transit network: considering ridership attributes, Yunpeng Zhao, Zhenjun Zhu, Yong Zhang, Yimian Yang, Yuliang Guo, and Wei Zhou
Comparing skip-stop and all-stop transit network designs, Li Zhen, Weihua Gu, and Xiaokuan Zhao
Effective passenger flow congestion propagation model for multi-mode rail transit networks, Changfeng Zhu, Jinxiu Jia, Jie Wang, Jinhao Fang, and Linna Cheng
An exact and heuristic framework for rolling stock rescheduling with railway infrastructure availability constraints, Jia Hui Zhu, Twan Dollevoeet, and Dennis Huisman
Passenger Route and Departure Time Guidance Under Disruptions in Oversaturated Urban Rail Transit Networks, Siyu Zhuo, Xiaoning Zhu, Pan Shang, and Zhengke Liu
Efficient asymmetric reposition strategy of rolling stock for urban rail transit systems, Qian Zhu, Yun Wang, Pan Shang, and Xiaoning Zhu
Evaluation of Pedestrian Networks in Urban Rail Transit Station Catchment Areas Using Entropy Weight Method and TOPSIS Models: Empirical Evidence from Nanjing, China, Zhenjun Zhu, Zhan Cao, Yudong He, Hao Guo, and Jiawen Yu
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
UAV-based studies in railway infrastructure monitoring, Peyman Aela, Hung-Lin Chi, Ali Fares, Tarek Zayed, and Minkoo Kim
Effectiveness of signs for pedestrian-railroad crossings: Colors, shapes, and messaging strategies, Jubaer Ahmed, Angie Robinson, and Erika E. Miller
Extensive Model and Matheuristic Algorithm for the Train Platforming Problem with Two-Train-Capacity Tracks: A Case Study of Prague Central Station, Emine Akyol Özer, Josef Bulicek, and Tugba Saraç
Choice of Current and Voltage for North American Commuter Rail Electrifications, John G. Allen
Mobility-as-a-Service and unsustainable travel behaviour: Exploring the car ownership and public transport trip replacement side-effects of the MaaS paradigm, Elena Alyavina, Alexandros Nikitas, and Eric Tchouamou Njoya
How will the combining of the elevation of rail lines with urban redevelopment reduce the north–south (east–west) disparity in the city? A case study of Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe conurbation, Japan, Takashi Aoki, Hidea Yoshida, Takashi Yokota, and Emiko Itami
Assessing Tram-Train feasibility via multicriteria approach: The case of Brescia (Italy), Nuhamin G. Assefa, Martina Carra, Roberto Ventura, Anna Richiedei, and Benedetto Barabino
Effect of beliefs and attitudes on public transport users’ choices. The moderating role of perceived intermodal connectivity, Monika Bąk, Przemysław Borkowski, and Michał Suchanek
Thresholding-based cellular automata for transportation network derived future urban growth patterns in a peri-urban area, Samarth Y. Bhatia, Kirtesh Gadiya, Gopal R. Patil, and Buddhiraju Krishna Mohan
Assessing flood resilience of urban rail transit systems: Complex network modelling and stress testing in a case study of London, Wei Bi, Jennifer Schooling, and Kristen MacAskill
Incorporating geographic interdependencies into the resilience assessment of multimodal public transport networks, Georgia Boura and Neil S. Ferguson
Impact of Station Design and Passengers Flow on Urban Rail Dwell Time: A Systemwide Analysis Using APC and AVL Data, Suryakant Buchunde, Saeid Saidi, and Shervin Ataeian
Air–rail timetable synchronisation: Improving passenger connections in Europe within and across transportation modes, Clara Buire, Aude Marzuoli, Daniel Delahaye, and Marcel Mongeau
Enhancing rail safety through real-time defect detection: A novel lightweight network approach, Yuan Cao, Yue Liu, Yongkui Sun, Shuai Su, and Feng Wang
A branch-and-cut algorithm for scheduling train platoons in urban rail networks, Simin Chai, Jiateng Yin, Andrea D'Ariano, Ronghui Liu, Lixing Yang, and Tao Tang
Integrated capacity allocation and timetable coordination for multimodal railway networks, Simin Chai, Jiateng Yin, Tao Tang, Lixing Yang, Ronghui Liu, and Qin Luo
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
The sustainability appeal of urban rail transit, Enhui Chen, Yang Liu, Min Yang, Zhirui Ye, and Yu (Marco) Nie
