When demand for transportation is low or highly variable, traditional public bus services tend
to lose their efficiency and typically frustrate (potential) passengers. In the literature, a large …

Public transport provision requires substantial organisational efforts, careful planning,
financial contributions from the public, and coordination between millions of passengers and …

The idea of a smart city is one that utilises Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies and data
analytics to optimise the efficiency of city operations and services, so as to provide a high …

Inspired by the success of private ridesourcing companies such as Uber and Lyft, transit
agencies have started to consider integrating ridesourcing services (ie on-demand, app …

In this paper we investigate a new form of automated public transportation, named 'modular
transit', configured to overcome the shortcomings of the traditional bus, including the first …

This paper assesses the demand for a flexible, demand-adaptive transit service, using the
Chicago region as an example. We designed and implemented a stated-preference survey …

An analysis of the operational characteristics of the transit system serving the town of
Velenje (Slovenia) revealed poor performance and the need for improvements. This paper …

This paper schedules the zonal-based flexible bus service (ZBFBS) considering elastic
stochastic demand, stochastic location, time-dependent travel time, and passenger time …

Since the flexibility and adaptability of demand responsive transit (DRT) give more potentials
and spaces of embracing eco-routing strategy, this study develops a novel framework of …

Abstract The Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows, Scheduled Lines and
Stochastic Demands (PDPTW-SLSD) concerns scheduling a set of vehicles to serve a set of …