A large share of the public transportation services is provided using contests for companies to find a low cost provider of these services. A trend towards smaller units of transportation has been observed, as the demand for increased efficiency and cost minimisation has shifted traditional transportation patterns. This paper provides economic analysis of the current situation in competition fo...

Participatory phone sensing is a new sensing paradigm that asks volunteers to contribute their phones’ sensing capabilities and gather, analyze, and share local knowledge about their surroundings. While most existing participatory phone sensing systems are standalone structures without cross-system integration, in this study, we propose a novel Comfort Measuring System (CMS) for public transpor...

the bus system in a high-speed public transportation systems are equipped with modern technology that due to accuracy, speed and flexibility have been considered as one of the improvement solutions in tehran's public transport system. in this article the performance of brt line three of tehran has been evaluated based on the established standard in 2013, developed by the institute for deve...

Bus Rapid Transit systems as well as Intelligent Transport Systems are being subject of research since many years. Nowadays with highly developed instrumentation, sensing and actuation technologies it is possible to foresee an important advance in the field of autonomous and or semi-autonomous transportation systems. Among the most promising transport infrastructures the articulated bus is an i...

The School Bus Routing Problem (SBRP), a generalization of the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem, involves the routing, planning, and scheduling of public school bus transportation. The problem can be divided into several subproblems, including bus stop selection, assigning students to buses, and determining the bus routes. This work presents an exact branch-and-price framework for the SBRP, w...

Visually impaired people have difficulty accessing information about public transportation systems. Several systems have been developed for assisting visually impaired and blind people to use the city bus. Most systems provide only one-way communication and require high-cost and complex equipment. The purpose of this study is to reduce the difficulties faced by visually impaired people when tak...

SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION Overview Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has emerged as a viable option to enhance transportation capacity and provide increased levels of mobility and accessibility. BRT systems vary from one application to another but all provide a higher level of service than traditional bus transportation. Service on BRT systems is generally faster than regular bus service because the buses m...

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2311, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2012, pp. 186–194. DOI: 10.3141/2311-18 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Portland State University, P.O. Box 751, Portland, OR 97207. Corresponding author: E. Albright, [email protected]. of buses over passenger vehicles (...