Substitutes or complements? Examining effects of urban rail transit on bus ridership using longitudinal city-level data

C Yang, C Yu, W Dong, Q Yuan - … Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite massive investments, bus ridership has constantly declined in many cities
worldwide. As public transit systems are evolving from bus-based to mixed structured, the …

Coordination of public-private transport and sustainability measurement: A futuristic perspective in transport

M Azadi, H Azizi, RF Saen - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
Coordination in providing sustainable and effective transport services can be beneficial for
both the public and private sectors. Although there is considerable research in each of …

What influences intermodal Choices: Metro-Centric, Bus-Centric, Hybrid? insights from Machine learning Approaches

X Ma, X Tian, H Cui, M He, J Wang, L Cheng - Transportation Research Part …, 2024 - Elsevier
Three types of intermodals are defined: bus-centric, metro-centric, and hybrid, each
representing combinations of bus, metro, and a mix of metro and bus with other travel modes …

Rethinking bus ridership dynamics: Examining nonlinear effects of determinants on bus ridership changes using city-level panel data from 2010 to 2019

C Yu, W Dong, Y Liu, C Yang, Q Yuan - Transport Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
The decline of bus ridership is increasingly prevalent in cities in both developed and
emerging economies around the world. While researchers have made many efforts to …

Analyzing efficiency and built environment factors for achieving convenient access to public transport: A Europe-wide DEA application

G Georgiadis, A Kopsacheilis, IM Andreadis… - Environmental Science & …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we employed Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to assess how efficiently a
sample of 22 European cities meets the SDG 11.2. 1 indicator, which measures the …

A novel data envelopment analysis framework for performance evaluation of European road transport systems

M Mansouri Kaleibar, E Krmac - Promet-Traffic&Transportation, 2024 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak The role of transportation is becoming increasingly important in the world economy,
and road transport in particular plays a very important role in all types of transportation. For …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the sustainable performance of the transport sector in European countries using alternative Benefit-of-the-Doubt models

SB Gruetzmacher, CB Vaz, ÂP Ferreira - Transportation Research …, 2025 - Elsevier
The energy policy of the European Union stresses the need for sustainable energy
consumption, improvements in energy efficiency and lower fossil fuel dependence in a …

Evaluating the Comprehensive Development Level and Coordinated Relationships of Urban Multimodal Transportation: A Case Study of China's Major Cities

B Hu, A Xu, X Dong - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Urban multimodal transportation effectively meets the diversified travel demand of residents.
However, it also generates extensive development problems such as traffic congestion …

How does operational environment influence public transport effectiveness? Evidence from European urban bus operators

G Georgiadis, I Politis, P Papaioannou - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Public transport systems' effectiveness is a well-recognized pillar of their sustainability. In
this study, we employed order-m efficiency estimators to investigate the effectiveness of 57 …

Spend more but get less: unravelling the causes of bus ridership decline using a data-driven machine learning approach

Y Zhang, C Yu, C Yang, W Dong… - … B: Transport Dynamics, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Bus ridership experiences a critical decline. However, the complex causal interactions that
impact ridership haven't been well understood. To address this gap, we propose a data …