Through vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, autonomizing a vehicle platoon can
significantly reduce the distance between vehicles, thereby reducing air resistance and …

With the advent of modular autonomous vehicles (MAVs), this paper presents a novel
operational design for flex-route transit services to reduce operation costs of vehicles and …

Dynamic traffic demand has been a longstanding challenge for the conventional transit
system design and operation. The recent development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) makes …

This paper studies the optimal planning of public transit services with modular vehicles. In
the modular service operation, the vehicle is comprised of smaller modular units/pods, which …

Modular vehicle (MV) technology offers the possibility of flexibly adjusting the vehicle
capacity by docking/undocking modular pods into vehicles of different sizes en route to …

This paper focuses on the operation design of a future public transit service adopting
modular vehicles. The unique feature of modular vehicles allows for assembling and …

The stochastic nature of public transport systems leads to headway variability and bus
bunching, causing both operator and passenger cost to increase significantly. Traditional …

Although urban transit systems (UTS) often have fixed vehicle capacity and relatively
constant departure headways, they may need to accommodate dramatically fluctuating …

While advancements in vehicular and wireless communication technologies are shaping the
future of our transportation system, emergency medical services (EMS) are not receiving …

With the emerging of virtual coupling technologies, the concept of train platoon, where
different vehicles can be flexibly and dynamically grouped or decoupled, has become a hot …