A methodology for choosing between route deviation and point deviation policies for flexible transit services

Y Zheng, W Li, F Qiu - Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible transit services, which bring together the characteristics of fixed‐route transit and
demand‐responsive transit, have been proven to be cost‐efficient in low‐density residential …

Stochastic optimization of public transport schedules to reduce transfer waiting times

S Michel, B Chidlovskii - 2016 IEEE International Smart Cities …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of transit schedule optimization in a multi-modal transport system.
Using a real-world collection of transit instances in a transport system, we revise the two …

Scheduling multiple vehicle mobility allowance shuttle transit (m-MAST) services

W Lu, L Lu, L Quadrifoglio - 2011 14th International IEEE …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The mobility allowance shuttle transit (MAST) system is an innovative hybrid transit system in
which vehicles are allowed to deviate from a fixed route to serve flexible demand. In this …

Time-dependent customized bus routing problem of large transport terminals considering the impact of late passengers

Y Wu, M Poon, Z Yuan, Q Xiao - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2022 - Elsevier
Customized bus (CB) provides convenient door-to-door transportation services to
passengers through a subscription-based model. To ease the problem of insufficient taxis …

Data-driven shuttle service design for sustainable last mile transportation

P Shu, Y Sun, B Xie, SX Xu, G Xu - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2021 - Elsevier
Last mile transportation is important in both freight and passenger transport as it accounts for
a large portion of the costs and emissions in the transportation industry. In urban transport …

An online ride-sharing path-planning strategy for public vehicle systems

M Zhu, XY Liu, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As efficient traffic-management platforms, public vehicle (PV) systems are envisioned to be a
promising approach to solving traffic congestion and pollution for future smart cities. PV …

Time-dependent urban customized bus routing with path flexibility

R Guo, W Zhang, W Guan, B Ran - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Urban customized bus companies are increasingly motivated by design efforts that entail
more efficient route scenarios to incorporate adaptation to temporal and spatial …

Adaptive scheduling of mixed bus services with flexible fleet size assignment under demand uncertainty

AHF Chow, G Li, C Ying - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents an optimization framework for adaptive scheduling of mixed bus
services with flexible fleet size assignment under demand uncertainty. The service …

Path-based formulations for the design of on-demand multimodal transit systems with adoption awareness

H Guan, B Basciftci… - INFORMS Journal on …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
This paper reconsiders the On-Demand Multimodal Transit Systems (ODMTS) Design with
Adoptions problem (ODMTS-DA) to capture the latent demand in on-demand multimodal …

Enabling In‐Depot Automated Routing and Recharging Scheduling for Automated Electric Bus Transit Systems

L Wang, W Ma, L Wang, Y Ren… - Journal of Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The bus transit system is promising to enable electric and autonomous vehicles for massive
urban mobility, which relies on high‐level automation and efficient resource management …