With the construction of high-speed railway lines in China, there are growing concerns about the rational transport cooperation between high-speed railway lines and conventional rail lines. A rational transport cooperation scheme can improve railway capacity utilization, train speed, service and the organization quality of railway transportation. The previous research mainly focused on the aspe...

Recent advances in transit modeling can provide detailed contact patterns for passengers of public transportation networks. A natural way to represent such patterns is in the form of graphs. In this paper we analyze the public transportation network of a major metropolitan area from a unique perspective. We present a novel network structure to identify and track the relationships between passen...

With the rapid development of technology, the comfort of service has become an important issue. Air travels, especially long distance, may cause both physiological and psychological discomfort to passenger. Passenger comfort is clearly a main factor in user’s acceptance of transportation systems. Sleeping is one of the common activities during the long haul flight. In this paper, subjective and...

Baggage operations at an airport are split into several different sub problems. The problem of assigning baggage carousels to each arriving flight is part the important passenger arrival process. This article presents a mixed integer formulation for underlying decision which aims balancing customer satisfaction with operational needs. We introduce static model that fulfills real-world requireme...

The busiest European and US airports are still a major bottleneck in the air transportation network. Optimizing utilization of existing airport capacity during periods of congestion, to maximize the airport throughput and minimize delays, is a challenging task. It is important for both strategic (several hours into the future) traffic flow management (TFM) and tactical air traffic control (ATC)...

In the context of public transportation system, improving the service quality and robustness through minimizing the average passengers waiting time is a real challenge. This study provides robust stochastic programming models for train timetabling problem in urban rail transit systems. The objective is minimization of the weighted summation of the expected cost of passenger waiting time, its va...