Public transport planning adaption under the COVID-19 pandemic crisis: literature review of research needs and directions

K Gkiotsalitis, O Cats - Transport Reviews, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

[HTML][HTML] At-stop control measures in public transport: Literature review and research agenda

K Gkiotsalitis, O Cats - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this literature review, we systematically review studies on public transit control with a
specific focus on at-stop measures. In our synthesis of the relevant literature, we consider …

[HTML][HTML] A modular, adaptive, and autonomous transit system (MAATS): An in-motion transfer strategy and performance evaluation in urban grid transit networks

J Wu, B Kulcsár, X Qu - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Dynamic traffic demand has been a longstanding challenge for the conventional transit
system design and operation. The recent development of autonomous vehicles (AVs) makes …

Modelling bus bunching and holding control with vehicle overtaking and distributed passenger boarding behaviour

W Wu, R Liu, W ** - Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 2017 - Elsevier
Headway fluctuation and bus bunching are commonly observed in transit operations, while
holding control is a proven strategy to reduce bus bunching and improve service reliability. A …

Autonomous shuttle bus service timetabling and vehicle scheduling using skip-stop tactic

Z Cao, AA Ceder - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2019 - Elsevier
The development of new technologies that allow us to know more precisely real-time public
transport (PT) passenger demand enables the introduction of new methodologies to improve …

Planning for modular-vehicle transit service system: Model formulation and solution methods

Q Tian, YH Lin, DZW Wang, Y Liu - Transportation Research Part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Dynamic headway control for high‐frequency bus line based on speed guidance and intersection signal adjustment

Y Bie, X **ong, Y Yan, X Qu - Computer‐Aided Civil and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To prevent bus bunching, a dynamic headway control method in the V2I (vehicle to
infrastructure) environment for a high‐frequency route with bus lane is developed. Bus …

Capacity-oriented passenger flow control under uncertain demand: Algorithm development and real-world case study

X Xu, J Liu, H Li, M Jiang - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a problem of passenger flow organization in subway stations under
uncertain demand. The existing concepts of station service capacity are extended and …

Simulation-based robust optimization of limited-stop bus service with vehicle overtaking and dynamics: A response surface methodology

W Wu, R Liu, W **, C Ma - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
We propose a robust optimization model for limited-stop bus service with vehicle overtaking
and demand dynamics. Time-dependent stochastic travel time is also considered. The …

Optimising modular-autonomous-vehicle transit service employing coupling–decoupling operations plus skip-stop strategy

J Zhang, YE Ge, C Tang, M Zhong - Transportation Research Part E …, 2024 - Elsevier
Modular autonomous vehicles (MAVs) have enormous potential to accommodate spatio-
temporally imbalanced demand by coupling and decoupling flexibly in operation. The …