With the introduction of automated vehicles, new operating regimes for public transport services will become possible. A station-based Automated Transit on Demand service could be an attractive alternative to current modes transportation. In this paper, impact kind modal share city Zurich, Switzerland, and its surrounding area is modeled using agent-based approach. Different scenarios regarding...

Abstract Rail is an important foundation of rail transit, and defects on the may pose a serious threat to transit. As new non-destructive testing method, thermographic detection shows excellent application prospect. In order verify whether technology can be used detect rail, especially at bottom rail. The ANSYS software model rails under different conditions, heat flow simulation experiment car...

To the problem of being lack of transit network hierarchy theory, a research on public transit network hierarchy optimization based on residential transit trip distance is conducted. Firstly, the hierarchy standard of transit network is given, in addition, both simulating electron cloud model and Rayleigh distribution model are used to fit the residential transit trip distance. Secondly, from t...

This paper describes a methodology for estimating transit walk accessibility that overcomes the problems associated with barriers and uneven distribution of population, and a methodology for forecasting transit walk accessibility for a future year given forecast population and employment data, transit route information, and street configuration type. Comparison of the results with those from th...

This report evaluates criticism of rail transit systems. It examines claims that rail transit is ineffective at increasing public transit ridership and improving transportation system performance, that rail transit investments are not cost effective, and that transit is an outdated form of transportation. It finds that critics often misrepresent issues and use biased and inaccurate analysis. Th...

The GammaPlan treatment planning system does not account for the leakage and scatter dose during APS repositioning. In this study, the dose delivered to the target site and its periphery from the defocus stage and intershot couch transit (couch motion from the focus to defocus position and back) associated with APS repositioning are measured for the Gamma Knife model 4C. A stereotactic head-fra...

Public transit provides important services for urban commuters and transit dependent population. A key objective of most public transit projects is to increase regional transit ridership and mode share. Traditional survey has been widely used by a transit project to estimate the change of ridership. In a large metropolitan area with multiple public transit modes, it is costly and difficult to c...

local bus network is the most popular transit mode and the only available transit mode in the majority of cities of the world. increasing the utility of this mode which increases its share from urban trips is an important goal for city planners. timetable setting as the second component of bus network design problem (network route design timetable setting vehicle assignment crew assignment) hav...