SEE-THROUGH DISPLAY of a city street is shown in this artist's rendition of an augmented-reality system that could be in use by the end of this decade. The display superimposes graphics and text from wireless networks (for example, a bus schedule and a movie preview) over the appropriate objects in the user's view (the bus stop and the movie theater).

Transit agencies have never had an accurate indicator of the extent of their service area based on riders’ door-to-door travel time. This is an important gap in knowledge, because travel time is one of the most important factors determining whether or not people will use public transit. This paper presents a powerful new travel timebased method to visualize and analyze transit service coverage—...

This article introduces a database of bus stop spacings for 43 cities in the United States derived from GTFS files published late 2019. Weighting each spacing by number times traverses it, we produce distributions and summary statistics. The overall mean is 313 meters. Las Vegas’ RTC has widest (482 m) Philadelphia’s SEPTA narrowest (214 m). We also compare within agencies’ “core’” to those out...

Custom bus routes need to be optimized to meet the needs of a customized bus for personalized trips of different passengers. This paper introduced a customized bus routing problem in which trips for each depot are given, and each bus stop has a fixed time window within which trips should be completed. Treating a trip as a virtual stop was the first consideration in solving the school bus routin...

One way to prioritize public transport over private vehicle mobility, is implement curbside rather than layby bus stop designs. There is, however, uncertainty about the consequences of implementing stops for traffic collision risks. To begin investigating this issue, we describe an exploratory analysis in which national data describing stops, road properties, collisions and built-up areas were ...

London's bus network is one of the largest and most comprehensive urban transport systems in the world. The contribution of buses is recognised by implementing a series of initiatives including bus priority at traffic signals. London has a long history of the implementation of bus priority at traffic signals. It has kept pace with the development of new technologies by updating its bus priority...