The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has greatly impacted public transport ridership and service
provision across the world. As many countries start to navigate their return to normality, new …

The efficiency of a transport system depends on several elements, such as available
technology, governmental policies, the planning process, and control strategies. Indeed, the …

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 …

With the expansion of urban rail networks and the increase of passengers demand, the
coordination of strongly connected lines becomes more and more important, because …

While transferring between public transport services has a negative impact on the level-of-
service, it is an inevitable feature of public transport networks. Transfer coordination can …

This book examines the main components affecting the viability of a public-transport service
from both the passenger and agency perspectives, and offers solutions to well-known …

This paper presents a global review of the crucial strategic and tactical steps of transit
planning: the design and scheduling of the network. These steps influence directly the …

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

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews a survey on the operations research literature
applied to the domain of public transit, with a focus on recent contributions. It highlights a …

Timetable generation is a subproblem of bus network strategic planning, in which the
departure time of each trip is determined. We study the bus network of Monterrey, Mexico …