Submissions from 2026
Comparing the performance of metaheuristics on the Transit Network Frequency Setting Problem, İlyas Cihan Aksoy and Mehmet Metin Mutlu
Mobilising safety? Public order and the coordination of security guards in public transport in Stockholm, Jens Alm, Alexander Paulsson, and Linnea Eriksson
Discovering the dynamics of metro satisfaction: Insights from the Tyne and Wear metro experience, Huseyin Ayan, Margaret Bell, and Dilum Dissanayake
Equity in transit fare policy: a literature review, Matthew Bruno, Machiel Kouwenberg, and Niels van Oort
A study on strategies to improve passengers’ alighting and boarding efficiency of metro system incorporating impacts of passengers’ luggage by simulation, Rui Cao, Qiang Bai, Shuai Wu, Yuxuan Wang, Nieyangzi Liu, Shi Dong, and Enze Liu
Activity participation among disadvantaged communities and the impact of an aerial cable car: The case of TransMiCable, Bogotá, Santiago Cardona-Urrea, Jaime Soza-Parra, and Dick Ettema
Everything has changed: the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the transit market in Montréal, Canada, Thiago Carvalho and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Agent based modeling and simulation approach to identify and classify the key influential factors for satisfaction of public transport users, Nomfundo Cele, Alain Y. Kibangou, and Walter Musakwa
On the Resilience Evaluation of Urban Multimodal Transportation Network Considering Dynamic Travel Demand, Biao Chen, Bobin Wang, Shouzheng Pan, Jianjun Wu, and Zhengbing He
Effect of shared micromobility on public transit ridership in metro and medium-sized urban areas in the United States: complementary or substitutionary?, Kwangyul Choi and John Park
Is fare free transit just? quantifying the impact of moral principles on transit design and finance, Tianxing Dai, Hongyu Zheng, and Yu (Marco) Nie
Forecasting short-term subway passenger flow using Wi-Fi data: comparative analysis of advanced time-series methods, Diego Da Silva and Amer Shalaby
From messages to movements: how emotional reactions to message frames activate consumption goals to shape students' public transport usage intention, Hoang Phuong Nhi Do, Minh Phuc Nguyen, and Cam Anh Thi Pham
Social comparison drives green transport switching: Travel satisfaction as the bridge, Hao Dong, Haslinda Hashim, and Nitty Hirawaty Kamarulzaman
Resilience optimization theory for adjacent time-domain timetables in urban rail transit: a spatiotemporal resource coupling framework based on FSAE-TTD algorithm, Qiuhan Dong, Jinjin Tang, Chao Li, Xingwei Yang, and Xinyun Shao
Discovering the nonlinear association between the built environment and metro ridership: Global and local perspectives, Shihai Dong, Yandong Wang, Chao Wang, Mingxuan Dou, and Jianya Gong
A global, hybrid life cycle sustainability assessment of alternative fuel buses: Supporting decision making for sustainability and eco-efficiency, Noura Elagouz, Nuri C. Onat, Murat Kucukvar, Muhammet E. Bulak, Adeeb A. Kutty, Ammar Abulibdeh, and Esmat Zaidan
Exploring factors that affect single-mode and multimodal travel preference for commute trips: a case study in Shanghai, China, Feiyu Feng, Xinhao Ding, Yuntao Guo, Xinghua Li, and Liangpeng Gao
Suburban Gentrification: Change, Stasis, and TOD along the Purple Line, Nicholas Finio
Embedding automated train operations safety within urban mobility transitions: the Sydney metro case in smart city rail transformation, Koorosh Gharehbaghi, Kerry Mcmanus, Maged Georgy, Neville Hurst, Kathryn Robson, and Kong Fah Tee
Changes in the Service Evaluations of Automated Buses Over Time: A One-Year, Three-Wave Panel Study in Stockholm, Jia Guo, Xiao Yan Kang, Yusak Susilo, Constantinos Antoniou, and Anna Pernestål
A general coupled morning–evening traffic equilibrium model with rideshare, ride-hailing, and public transit services, Wei Gu, Michael Zhang, Maged Dessouky, and Jong-Shi Pang
Effects of rearward countdown timers at highly automated shuttle buses to announce departing, Silvio Hess, Ann-Christin Hensch, Matthias Beggiato, and Josef F. Krems
Evaluating sustainable fuel alternatives for Brazilian public transport: A comprehensive well-to-wheel analysis, Bianca de Souza Hoffmann, Rodrigo de Alvarenga Rosa, and Neyval Costa Reis Junior
RecoMap – a semi-automated tool for analysing railway accident recommendations across jurisdictions and over time, Wei-Ting Hong, Geoffrey Clifton, and John D. Nelson
Coordinated transit signal priority control with queue length prediction in V2X environments, Hsin-Kai Huang and Yu-Ting Hsu
Measuring bicycle accessibility within the metro catchment area: An empirical study in Shanghai, Yizhe Huang, Chaobo Shi, Cunzhuo Liu, and Shuichao Zhang
Modeling Crowdedness at Public Transport Stations During Special Events: A Comparative Study of Eleven Cities, Wanrong Hu, Qing-Long Lu, Ningkang Yang, and Constantinos Antoniou
Inter-station travel reliability assessment of public transportation systems: under multimodal transport, Xiaowei Hu and Zhenyang Qiu
Formulating the express railway network design for relieving in-vehicle crowding, incorporating a bi-level modeling approach, Jaemin Hwang and Shin-Hyung Cho
How well are environmental attitudes and sustainable transport alternatives aligned in Santiago de los Caballeros (Dominican Republic), Alessandro Indelicato, Salvador Moral-Cuadra, Francisco Orgaz-Agüera, and Juan Carlos Martin
E-scooters as transit feeders: insights from revealed preferences of shared e-scooter users, Mohammadjavad Javadinasr, Sina Asgharpour, and Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian
Enhancing energy-environmental efficiency of autonomous bus: an NMPC-based trajectory optimization model, Shiyu Jiang, Xumei Chen, Yuqing Wang, Yixin Zhang, Yifan Zhu, and Lei Yu
Which access matters? A comparative analysis of accessibility metrics and their impacts on commuting, Bogdan Kapatsila, Hisham Negm, and Ahmed El-Geneidy
Estimating the impact of new rail service on travel behaviour of current bus passengers using smart card data, Fırat Enver Kesmez and Volkan Emre Uz
Jointly modelling activity start time, travel mode, companionship, and destination location choices, Shivam Khaddar, Varun Varghese, Mahmudur Rahman Fatmi, and Makoto Chikaraishi
Collection point allocation methods for many-to-one demand-responsive transport based on geometric models and actual demand points, Márton Korompay and Dávid Földes
European passenger rail innovation and the competition from electric cars, Ida Kristoffersson, Roger Pyddoke, Maria Börjesson, and Chengxi Liu
An efficient hyperpath-based algorithm for the capacitated transit equilibrium assignment problem, Wenxin Liang, Zhandong Xu, Jun Xie, Xiaobo Liu, and Yuting Feng
Using nudging information to manage congestion and emissions in a road and metro network, Zhiyuan Liang, Vincent A.C. van den Berg, Erik T. Verhoef, and Yacan Wang
Integrated optimization of flexible train timetable, stop plan and exogenous passenger assignment under demand responsive condition, Dewei Li, Tao Li, Jiayi Li, and Yanzhen Li
Optimizing battery electric bus allocations: an integrated approach to cost minimization and evolutionary game theory, Jing Liu, Jie Zhang, Chuntong Dong, and Qingling He
Transit oriented development under the influence of urban air mobility: A public transit-based vertiport siting method, Renwei Liu, Haishan Xia, Lu Li, Qi Li, and Sitong Liu
Sustainable transit network design considering photovoltaic-storage-charging depot, Yi Liu and Jinjing Zhang
Joint optimization of electric bus charging and dispatching plans using mobile charging vehicle, Xin Li, Chengen Xie, Meng Li, Xiaoyu Cai, and Yun Yuan
Vehicle occupancy estimation in Automated Guideway Transit via deep learning with Wi-Fi probe requests, Ziyue Li and Qianwen Guo
Robust dynamic real-time control strategies for high-frequency bus service: a multi-agent reinforcement learning framework, Victor Jian Ming Low, Hooi Ling Khoo, and Wooi Chen Khoo
The Network Spillover Effects of Metro Expansion on Metro Usage: A Quasi-experimental Analysis in Shenzhen, China, Daming Lu, Wenjia Zhang, Paul M. Ong, Mei-Po Kwan, and Senkai Xie
A synchronization-constraints-based dual bands method of traffic signal optimization, Kai Lu, Guanghui Xu, Xiaofeng Xie, Jianmin Xu, and Yinhai Wang
A novel integrative prediction framework for metro passenger flow, Wenbo Lu, Yong Zhang, Jinhua Xu, and Peikun Li
From Lockdown to Recovery: Modeling the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 on Station-Level Ridership of Xi’an Metro, Chen Ma, Baixi Shi, Yanqiu Cheng, Lexing Zhang, and Kuanmin Chen
Dedicated bus lane vs queue jump lane: a microsimulation case study of Guwahati city using VISSIM under mixed traffic conditions, Kamalnath Maddu, Suprava Jena, and N. Mohamed Hasain
Modeling bicycle choice behavior and its potential health impact: Case of first/last mile access to suburban rail, B. S. Manoj, Kapil Kumar Meena, Hiral Panchal, Gajanand Sharma, and Arkopal Kishore Goswami
Unveiling the effect of social media communication on urban mobility, Carlos Martinez-de-Ibarreta, Jenny A. Cifuentes, Carlos M. Vallez, and Alejandro Betancourt
Headway regularity as an attribute for classifying bus drivers, Yerly Martínez-Estupiñan, Felipe Delgado, and Juan Carlos Muñoz
Complementing or competing with public transit? Evaluating the parameter sensitivity of potential Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) urban users in Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, and the United Kingdom with a mixed choice model, Michal Matowicki, Pavla Pecherkova, Marco Amorim, Mira Kern, Nicolaj Motzer, and Ondrej Pribyl
A framework for urban railway transit system planning with demographic distribution and travel efficiency, Xiaoyi Ma, Hongjie He, Mingmin Liu, and An Jin
Collaborative and incentivized trip planning system to minimize transportation emissions for business commuting, Shahryar Monghasemi and Moatassem Abdallah
The knowledge economy and transit-oriented development: Effects at long-distance rail stations in Germany, Johannes Moser, Fabian Wenner, and Alain Thierstein
Accounting for passenger loss in bus bunching reduction: a robust real-time speed control method, Kupeng Ning and Hai Jiang
Analyzing an Integrated Mode-Choice User Preference Model for Budapest, Laila Oubahman, Szabolcs Duleba, and Domokos Esztergár-Kiss
No Longer Seat-Less in Seattle: The Role of Coordinated Transportation and Land Use Planning in Sustaining Transit Ridership through the Pandemic Recovery Period, Madeleine E.G. Parker
Is microtransit a cost-effective alternative or a costly competitor to public transit?, Miriam Pinski, Anne Brown, and Nicholas Perloff-Giles
Exploring commuters’ mode preference to autonomous vehicles based on a personalized travel experience survey, Huanmei Qin, Binhai Yu, and Yonghuan Zhang
Transit-Induced Gentrification: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of New U.S. Rapid-Transit Stations Opened 2000–2009, Yunlei Qi and Greg Lindsey
Let’s walk! The fallacy of urban first- and last-mile public transport, Jeppe Rich
Meta-analysis of travel-based multitasking by railway passengers in Japan between 1983 and 2019: direct observation and YouTube videos, Nobuhiro Sanko and Sota Yamaguchi
A multidimensional urban transport equity assessment framework: A case of Mumbai, K. T. Sarath, Trupti Mishra, and Rangan Banerjee
Women’s Perceived Precautionary Safety on public transit — A life course perspective on harassment experiences, anxiety, and coping behaviour, Rumana Sarker, Graham Currie, and Subeh Chowdhury
Examining multi-tasking behaviour and ICT utilization during commutes in public transport: the role of personality traits, socio-economic factors, and travel characteristics, Aditya Saxena, Ahana Sarkar, and Arnab Jana
Analyzing the reporting error of public transport trips in the Danish national travel survey using smart card data, Georges Sfeir, Filipe Rodrigues, Maya Abou-Zeid, and Francisco Camara Pereira
Exploring traveler roles based on potential group travelers extracted from metro smart card data, Xiaoying Shi, Ruixuan Wang, Chao Wu, Dandan Liu, Haitao Xu, and Yongping Zhang
Shifting gears: Exploring private car users’ perception of public transport ridership, Eugene Sogbe, Susilawati Susilawati, Graham Currie, and Chee Pin Tan
Bus Rapid Transit Impact on Property Prices: Comparing Two Natural Experiments in El Paso, TX, Yang Song, Chanam Lee, Youngre Noh, Wei Li, and Hanwool Lee
Causal Effect of New Bus Rapid Transit on Non-Work-Related Activities, Yang Song, Sinan Zhong, Chanam Lee, and Minjie Xu
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
Is bus riding always lower-carbon than driving? Quantifying passenger-level carbon reduction potential for bus travel incentives in China, Shichao Sun and Xiaohua Liu
Understanding metro origin-destination passenger flow dynamics: a novel entropy and machine learning perspective, Shichao Sun and Ying Xing
Assessing the impact of penalty strategies for cancellation behavior on the sustainability of demand-responsive transit service, Hongfei Wang, Hongzhi Guan, Huanmei Qin, Pengfei Zhao, and Weiwei Liang
TransitTalk: Large language model-based digital assistants for enhancing transit customer experience and staff performance, Jiahao Wang and Amer Shalaby
Customised bus service design considering flexible vehicle size and transfer incentivization, Jianbiao Wang, Tomio Miwa, Dawei Li, and Takayuki Morikawa
The interaction of weather factors on multimodal public transportation: An empirical research on the combination of bike-sharing and metro, Xiaoxia Wang, Zhicheng Pan, Peng Liu, Xiang Wang, Zhenlong Fan, Nieyangzi Liu, and Jiayou Wu
Integrated design and optimization of customized bus travel services for urban commuting, Xu Wang, Tong Zhou, Rongjian Dai, Bingbing Xue, and Yingchao Sun
Conflict assessment of pull-out bus stops: a novel fine-grained simulation, Yawei Wang, Xin Li, Jun Liu, and Sai Zhang
Passenger flow prediction for citywide bus stops based on gated multi-graph convolutional network, Yu-yang Wang, Cheng Zhang, Wen-peng Qu, and Ze-hao Jiang
Exploring visual attention dynamics in tram driving. Differentiating between expert and novice drivers for Gaze-enhanced training, Anna Warchoł-Jakubowska, Krzysztof Krejtz, Filippo Baldisserotto, Iga Stasiak, and Izabela Krejtz
Is first mile behaviour similar to last mile behaviour? A case study on a rapid rail system in South Africa, Daniel Watts, Christoffel Venter, and Gary Hayes
Impact of the MRT Jakarta on Congestion: Evidence from a Before-After, Treatment-Control Evaluation, Alysa Widita, Timothy Welch, Deden Rukmana, and Andyan Diwangkari
Prioritizing at-risk bus drivers: a safety-constrained burnout severity classification model using information gain, Chenglong Wu, Guojun Chen, Pengfei Gao, Shuyang Zhang, Ruoyun He, and Haode Liu
Impacts of multi-scale built environment on transportation carbon emissions: A Guangzhou case, Rong Wu, Yongli Zhang, Yunnan Cai, and Shaojian Wang
One-to-many stable matching for integrating ridesharing and public transit on a Mobility-as-a-Service platform, Yating Wu, Minghui Lai, and Yuan Wang
Integrating one-to-many peer-to-peer ridesharing and public transit for morning commute on a mobility-as-a-service platform, Yating Wu, Minghui Lai, Ruiling Yang, and Yuan Wang
Cascading failure analysis for multimodal comprehensive transportation network considering time-delay characteristic of passenger flow redistribution, Jialiang Xiao, Yongtao Zheng, Wei Wang, and Xuedong Hua
Optimization model for tram departure interval and multi-path traffic signal coordination control, Ning Xie, Changyin Dong, and Hao Wang
Dynamic and multigraph fusion spatio-temporal graph convolution network for short-term forecasting of urban rail transit passenger flow, Yuchen Xie, Jing Yang, Hongliang Zhang, Yuqing Hou, and Zhihong Li
Correlation-based feature selection and parallel spatiotemporal networks for efficient passenger flow forecasting in metro systems, Cong Xiu, Shuguang Zhan, Jinyi Pan, Qiyuan Peng, Zhiyuan Lin, and S. C. Wong
A generative adversarial network for inferring age attributes in subway based on automatic fare collection and point of interest data, Xinyue Xu, Ziyang Ye, Anzhong Zhang, Jun Liu, YuanKai Wu, Linqiao Qin, Wenwen Xu, and Bin Ran
Integrated demand-side management and timetabling for an urban rail transit line: A Benders decomposition approach, Lixing Yang, Yahan Lu, Jiateng Yin, and Shadi Sharif Azadeh
Shared dockless e-scooter and metro station built environment: its nonlinear relationship using random forest modeling, Wookjae Yang, Keuntae Kim, and Junsik Kim
Energy-efficient train operation strategy for human-driven trains and a real-world test on the Istanbul Subway System, Ahmet Yildiz and Oktay Arikan
