Sustainable mobility in auto-dominated Metro Boston: Challenges and opportunities post-COVID-19

R Basu, J Ferreira - Transport Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted society as we knew it in a variety of ways, with
especially severe impacts on low-income households. Even before COVID-19, Metro Boston …

[HTML][HTML] Traveller behaviour in public transport in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands

S Shelat, O Cats, S van Cranenburgh - Transportation Research Part A …, 2022 - Elsevier
With a few exceptions, public transport ridership around the world has been hit hard by the
COVID-19 pandemic. Travellers are now likely to adapt their behaviour with a focus on …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization of service frequency and vehicle size for automated bus systems with crowding externalities and travel time stochasticity

M Sadrani, A Tirachini, C Antoniou - Transportation Research Part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
Public transport is considered as one of the most suitable candidates to benefit from
autonomous driving technologies. In this research, we develop a mathematical modeling …

Optimal frequency setting of metro services in the age of COVID-19 distancing measures

K Gkiotsalitis, O Cats - Transportmetrica A: Transport Science, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Public transport is one of the most disrupted sectors of the COVID-19 pandemic with
reported ridership drops up to 90% in majorly affected countries. As many government …

[HTML][HTML] Should I stay or should I board? Willingness to wait with real-time crowding information in urban public transport

A Drabicki, O Cats, R Kucharski, A Fonzone… - Research in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Overcrowding is a major phenomenon affecting travel experience in urban public transport,
whose negative impacts can be potentially mitigated with real-time crowding information …

[HTML][HTML] Pandemic impacts on public transport safety and stress perceptions in Nordic cities

L Böcker, LE Olsson, TP Uteng, M Friman - Transportation research part D …, 2023 - Elsevier
COVID-19 has brought severe disruption and demand suppression to mobility, especially to
public transport (PT). A key challenge now is to restore trust that PT is safe again. This paper …

Vehicle dispatching plan for minimizing passenger waiting time in a corridor with buses of different sizes: Model formulation and solution approaches

M Sadrani, A Tirachini, C Antoniou - European Journal of Operational …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban public transportation agencies sometimes have to operate mixing vehicles of different
sizes on their routes, due to resource limitations or historical reasons. Services with different …

Crowding on public transport using smart card data during the COVID-19 pandemic: New methodology and case study in Chile

F Basso, J Frez, H Hernández, V Leiva, R Pezoa… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Most crowding measures in public transportation are usually aggregated at a service level.
This type of aggregation does not help to analyze microscopic behavior such as exposure …

Mitigating bus bunching with real-time crowding information

A Drabicki, R Kucharski, O Cats - Transportation, 2023 - Springer
A common problem in public transport systems is bus bunching, characterized by a negative
feedback loop between service headways, number of boarding passengers and dwell times …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling the effect of real-time crowding information (RTCI) on passenger distribution in trains

S Peftitsi, E Jenelius, O Cats - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Overcrowding has become a big challenge for public transport systems, affecting
passengers' travel experience. At the same time, service supply is often underutilized due to …