Submissions from 2023
Literature Review on Problem Models and Solution Approaches for Managing Real-Time Passenger Train Operations: The Perspective of Train Operating Companies, Luis Marques, Sergio Moro, and Pedro Ramos
Optimal locations and sizes of layover charging stations for electric buses, Dan McCabe and Xueang (Jeff) Ban
Optimization of headway and bus stop spacing for low demand bus routes, Sushreeta Mishra, Babak Mehran, and Prasanta K. Sahu
Adaptive rail transit network operations with a rollout surrogate-approximate dynamic programming approach, Hoa T.M. Nguyen and Andy H.F. Chow
Bi-objective optimization of last-train timetabling with multimodal coordination in urban transportation, Jia Ning, Qiyuan Peng, Yongqiu Zhu, Xinjie Xing, and Otto Anker Nielsen
Optimizing Integrated All-Stop, Express, and Short-Turn Services on a Metro Line with Capacity Constraint Considering Passenger Spatio-Temporal Path Choice, Hezhou Qu, Ziyi Wang, and Xiaobo Liu
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
Safety-oriented train timetabling and stop planning with time-varying and elastic demand on overcrowded commuter metro lines, Jungang Shi, Jing Yang, Lixing Yang, Lefeng Tao, Shengjie Qiang, Zhen Di, and Junhua Guo
Will the latest British reforms to rail passenger service procurement work?, Andrew S.J. Smith and Chris A. Nash
Development of new railway timetabling rules for increased robustness, Emma Solinen and Carl-William Palmqvist
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
Optimal selection of vehicle types for an electric bus route with shifting departure times, Chunyan Tang, Ying-En Ge, He Xue, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, and Xiaokun Wang
Optimisation of a new hybrid transit service with modular autonomous vehicles, Chunyan Tang, Jinqiang Liu, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, and Yu Jiang
Optimization of single-line electric bus scheduling with skip-stop operation, Chunyan Tang, Hudi Shi, and Tao Liu
Dynamic operations of an integrated mobility service system of fixed-route transits and flexible electric buses, Xindi Tang, Jie Yang, Xi Lin, Fang He, and Jinhua Si
Joint scheduling and formation design for modular-vehicle transit service with time-dependent demand, Qingyun Tian, Yun Hui Lin, and David Z.W. Wang
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
En-route fast charging infrastructure planning and scheduling for battery electric bus systems, Xuedong Wang, Ziqi Song, Hongli Xu, and Hua Wang
Metro stop-skipping rescheduling optimization considering passenger waiting time fairness, Yanyan Wang, Changjiang Zheng, Jinxing Shen, Zhichao Chen, Junze Ma, and Yang Shen
Data-driven distributionally robust timetabling and dynamic-capacity allocation for automated bus systems with modular vehicles, Dongyang Xia, Jihui Ma, Sh. Sharif Azadeh, and Wenyi Zhang
Collaborative optimization of electric bus line scheduling with multiple charging modes, Dong-Fan Xie, Ya-Peng Yu, Guang-Jing Zhou, Xiao-Mei Zhao, and Yong-Jun Chen
Integrated electric bus timetabling and scheduling problem, Xiaoming Xu, Yanhong Yu, and Jiancheng Long
Integrated optimization of train route plan and timetable with dynamic demand for the urban rail transit line, Ruixia Yang, Baoming Han, Qi Zhang, Zhenyu Han, and Yuxuan Long
Network periodic train timetabling with integrated stop planning and passenger routing: A periodic time–space network construct and ADMM algorithm, Zhiyuan Yao, Lei Nie, Yixiang Yue, Zhenhuan He, Yu Ke, Yuxin Mo, and Hongda Wang
Integrated optimization of rolling stock allocation and train timetables for urban rail transit networks: A benders decomposition approach, Jiateng Yin, Fan Pu, Lixing Yang, Andrea D'Ariano, and Zhouhong Wang
Synchronization of train timetables in an urban rail network: A bi-objective optimization approach, Jiateng Yin, Miao Wang, Andrea D'Ariano, Jinlei Zhang, and Lixing Yang
Decomposition and approximate dynamic programming approach to optimization of train timetable and skip-stop plan for metro networks, Yin Yuan, Shukai Li, Ronghui Liu, Lixing Yang, and Ziyou Gao
Optimal platforming, routing, and scheduling of trains and locomotives in a rail passenger station yard, Bojian Zhang, Yongxiang Zhang, Andrea D’Ariano, Tommaso Bosi, Gongyuan Lu, and Qiyuan Peng
Morning commute in congested urban rail transit system: a macroscopic model for equilibrium distribution of passenger arrivals, Jiahua Zhang, Kentaro Wada, and Takashi Oguchi
Bus Scheduling of Overlapping Routes Based on the Combination of All-Stop and Stop-Skipping Services, Mingye Zhang, Min Yang, Da Lei, and Xiammin Song
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
Multi-route coordination for bus systems in response to road disruptions, Hankun Zheng, Huijun Sun, Liujiang Kang, Peiling Dai, and Jianjun Wu
Robust collaborative optimization for train timetabling and short-turning strategy in urban rail transit systems, Ling Zhu, Shukai Li, Yuting Hu, and Bin Jia
Collaborative optimization of rescue operation and timetable rescheduling under metro train failure, Qiaozhen Zhu, Yun Bai, Lingling Yang, Yao Chen, and Dongyang Yan
Submissions from 2022
Measurement and classification of transit delays using GTFS-RT data, Zack Aemmer, Andisheh Ranjbari, and Don MacKenzie
Are commuter train timetables consistent with passengers’ valuations of waiting times and in-vehicle crowding?, Abderrahman Ait Ali, Jonas Eliasson, and Jennifer Warg
Robust strategic planning of dynamic wireless charging infrastructure for electric buses, Yaseen Alweabi, Farzad Avishan, İhsan Yanıkoğlu, Zhaocai Liu, and Yong Wang
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
Towards renewable public transport: Mining the performance of electric buses using solar-radiation as an auxiliary power source, Haoqian Chen, Yi Sui, Wen-long Shang, Rencheng Sun, Zhiheng Chen, Changying Wang, Chunjia Han, Yuqian Zhang, and Haoran Zhang
An operating system for extra long urban trains, Carlos F. Daganzo
Enhancing the interaction of railway timetabling and line planning with infrastructure awareness, Florian Fuchs, Alessio Trivella, and Francesco Corman
Robustness and disturbances in public transport, Liping Ge, Stefan Voß, and Lin Xie
Subline frequency setting for autonomous minibusses under demand uncertainty, K. Gkiotsalitis, M. Schmidt, and E. van der Hurk
Timetabling for a congested urban rail transit network based on mixed logic dynamic model, Sijia Hao, Rui Song, and Shiwei He
Computationally efficient train timetable generation of metro networks with uncertain transfer walking time to reduce passenger waiting time: A generalized Benders decomposition-based method, Yuting Hu, Shukai Li, Maged M. Dessouky, Lixing Yang, and Ziyou Gao
Scheduling zonal-based flexible bus service under dynamic stochastic demand and Time-dependent travel time, Enoch Lee, Xuekai Cen, and Hong K. Lo
Path-oriented synchronized transit scheduling using time-dependent data, Kelvin Lee, Yu Jiang, Avishai (Avi) Ceder, Justin Dauwels, Rong Su, and Otto Anker Nielsen
Resolution of coupling order and station level constraints in train unit scheduling, Li Lei, Raymond S.K. Kwan, Zhiyuan Lin, and Pedro J. Copado-Mendez
Skip-Stop Strategy Patterns optimization to enhance mass transit operation under physical distancing policy due to COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, Charinee Limsawasd, Nathee Athigakunagorn, Phattadon Khathawatcharakun, and Atiwat Boonmee
Spatial analysis of bus rapid transit actual operating conditions: the case of Hangzhou City, China, Dongxu Liu, Chenxin Zhao, Hongzhao Dong, and Zhi Huang
Train timetabling with the general learning environment and multi-agent deep reinforcement learning, Wenqing Li and Shaoquan Ni
Passenger-oriented traffic control for rail networks: An optimization model considering crowding effects on passenger choices and train operations, Xiaojie Luan and Francesco Corman
Estimating the robustness of public transport schedules using machine learning, Matthias Müller-Hannemann, Ralf Rückert, Alexander Schiewe, and Anita Schöbel
An optimization model for planning limited-stop transit operations, Mahmood Mahmoodi Nesheli, Siva Srikukenthiran, and Amer Shalaby
An optimization method to design a skip–stop pattern for renovating operation schemes in urban railways, Sukman Oh and Jiwoong Choi
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
Integrating para- and scheduled transit: Minibus paratransit operators' perspective on reform in Cape Town, Christopher Plano and Roger Behrens
Rolling Stock Allocation and Timetabling for Urban Rail Transit Network with Multiple Depots, Fan Pu, Jiateng Yin, Yihui Wang, Shuai Su, Lixing Yang, and Tao Tang
Relaxation methods for fixed route demand responsive transit, Oksana Pecherski Sabinik and Hillel Bar-Gera
Zero bunching solution for a local public transport system with multiple-origins bus operation, S. Sajikumar and D. Bijulal
A simulation-optimization framework for traffic disturbance recovery in metro systems, M. L. Tessitore, M. Samà, A. D’Ariano, L. Hélouet, and D. Pacciarelli
Headway variability in public transport: a review of metrics, determinants, effects for quality of service and control strategies, Alejandro Tirachini, Javiera Godachevich, Oded Cats, Juan Carlos Muñoz, and Jaime Soza-Parra
Integrated optimization of charger deployment and fleet scheduling for battery electric buses, Yongxing Wang, Feixiong Liao, and Chaoru Lu
How does the weather affect public transit ridership? A model with weather-passenger variations, Ming Wei
Joint optimization of timetabling, vehicle scheduling, and ride-matching in a flexible multi-type shuttle bus system, Mian Wu, Chunhui Yu, Wanjing Ma, Kun An, and Zhihua Zhong
The multi-depot electric vehicle scheduling problem with power grid characteristics, Weitiao Wu, Yue Lin, Ronghui Liu, and Wenzhou Jin
Optimizing operational strategies for mass transit systems in response to a global pandemic, Hongyuan Yang and Yu (Marco) Nie
Maximizing network utility while considering proportional fairness for rail transit systems: Jointly optimizing passenger allocation and vehicle schedules, Yonghao Yin, Dewei Li, Zhenyu Han, Xinlei Dong, and Hui Liu
Joint optimization of train scheduling and dynamic passenger flow control strategy with headway-dependent demand, Fuya Yuan, Huijun Sun, Liujiang Kang, and Si Zhang
Mixed electric bus fleet scheduling problem with partial mixed-route and partial recharging, Aijia Zhang, Tiezhu Li, Yue Zheng, Xuefeng Li, Muhammad Ghazanfar Abdullah, and Changyin Dong
A heuristic approach to integrate train timetabling, platforming, and railway network maintenance scheduling decisions, Qin Zhang, Richard Martin Lusby, Pan Shang, and Xiaoning Zhu
Integrated line planning and train timetabling through price-based cross-resolution feedback mechanism, Yongxiang Zhang, Qiyuan Peng, Gongyuan Lu, Qingwei Zhong, Xu Yan, and Xuesong Zhou
Joint optimization of train scheduling and rolling stock circulation planning with passenger flow control on tidal overcrowded metro lines, Housheng Zhou, Jianguo Qi, Lixing Yang, Jungang Shi, and Pengli Mo
Joint optimization of train timetabling and rolling stock circulation planning: A novel flexible train composition mode, Housheng Zhou, Jianguo Qi, Lixing Yang, Jungang Shi, Hanchuan Pan, and Yuan Gao
Submissions from 2021
An exact solution approach for an electric bus dispatch problem, Matías Alvo, Gustavo Angulo, and Mathias A. Klapp
Vehicle and reliable driver scheduling for public bus transportation systems, Alejandro Andrade-Michel, Yasmín A. Ríos-Solís, and Vincent Boyer
A combined dial-a-ride and fixed schedule ferry service for coastal cities, Ingvild Eide Aslaksen, Elisabeth Svanberg, Kjetil Fagerholt, Lennart C. Johnsen, and Frank Meisel
Passenger-centric timetable rescheduling: A user equilibrium approach, S. Binder, M. Y. Maknoon, Sh. Sharif Azadeh, and M. Bierlaire
Estimation of transfer walking time distribution in multimodal public transport systems based on smart card data, Morten Eltved, Philip Lemaitre, and Niklas Christoffer Petersen
Waiting time and headway modelling for urban transit systems – a critical review and proposed approach, Mohammad Ansari Esfeh, S. C. Wirasinghe, Saeid Saidi, and Lina Kattan
Planning skip-stop services with schedule coordination, Wenbo Fan and Yu Ran
Departure Time Choice in Schedule-Based Transit Assignment, Markus Friedrich, Matthias Schmaus, Jonas Sauer, and Tobias Zündorf
Calculating conditional passenger travel time distributions in mixed schedule- and frequency-based public transport networks using Markov chains, Clara Brimnes Gardner, Sara Dorthea Nielsen, Morten Eltved, Thomas Kjær Rasmussen, Otto Anker Nielsen, and Bo Friis Nielsen
Bus rescheduling in rolling horizons for regularity-based services, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis
Train timetabling with dynamic and random passenger demand: A stochastic optimization method, Congcong Gong, Jungang Shi, Yanhui Wang, Housheng Zhou, Lixing Yang, Dewang Chen, and Hanchuan Pan
Multi-Objective Optimization for Skip-Stop Strategy Based on Smartcard Data Considering Total Travel Time and Equity, Sang-Wook Han, Eun Hak Lee, and Dong-Kyu Kim
Train timetabling in rail transit network under uncertain and dynamic demand using Advanced and Adaptive NSGA-II, Zhenyu Han, Baoming Han, Dewei Li, Shangbin Ning, Ruixia Yang, and Yonghao Yin
Simulation-optimization framework for train rescheduling in rapid rail transit, Erfan Hassannayebi, Arman Sajedinejad, Ali Kardannia, Masoud Shakibayifar, Hossein Jafari, and Ehsan Mansouri
The case for negotiated contracts under the transition to a green bus fleet, David A. Hensher
Robust Capacitated Train Rescheduling with Passenger Reassignment under Stochastic Disruptions, Xin Hong, Lingyun Meng, Francesco Corman, Andrea D'Ariano, Lucas P. Veelenturf, and Sihui Long
Integrated optimization of capacitated train rescheduling and passenger reassignment under disruptions, Xin Hong, Lingyun Meng, Andrea D'Ariano, Lucas P. Veelenturf, Sihui Long, and Francesco Corman
An integrated model of energy-efficient timetabling of the urban rail transit system with multiple interconnected lines, Kang Huang, Feixiong Liao, and Ziyou Gao
Incorporating multimodal coordination into timetabling optimization of the last trains in an urban railway network, Kang Huang, Jianjun Wu, Feixiong Liao, Huijun Sun, Fang He, and Ziyou Gao
Train Scheduling Method to Reduce Substation Energy Consumption and Peak Power of Metro Transit Systems, Bo Jin, Xiaoyun Feng, Qingyuan Wang, Pengfei Sun, and Qian Fang
First train timetabling and bus service bridging in intermodal bus-and-train transit networks, Liujiang Kang, Hao Li, Huijun Sun, Jianjun Wu, Zinguang Cao, and Nsabimana Buhigiro
Cooperatively coevolutionary optimization design of limited-stop services and operating frequencies for transit networks, Mingzhang Liang, H. M. Zhang, Rui Ma, Wei Wang, and Changyin Dong
Railway capacity estimation considering vehicle circulation: Integrated timetable and vehicles scheduling on hybrid time-space networks, Zhengwen Liao, Haiying Li, Jianrui Miao, and Francesco Corman
Prediction of electric bus energy consumption with stochastic speed profile generation modelling and data driven method based on real-world big data, Pengshun Li, Yuhang Zhang, Yi Zhang, and Kai Zhang
Comparison of Door-to-Door Transit Travel Time Estimation Using Schedules, Real-Time Vehicle Arrivals, and Smartcard Inference Methods, Ting Li, Patrick Meredith-Karam, Hui Kong, Anson Stewart, John P. Attanucci, and Jinhua Zhao
