Passengers, transit managers, adjacent businesses and residents, and local governments all can have strong, and sometimes conflicting, ideas about what makes a good transit stop or station. This paper examines stops and stations from the transit agency’s perspective; transit managers must consider both the logistical and political factors inherent to transit operations as well as the perspectiv...

This research assesses how U.S. transit agencies have taken advantage of congestion pricing projects and answers two questions: (1) what role has transit played in U.S. congestion pricing projects, and (2) how have transit agencies responded to congestion pricing projects through service planning, operating practices, capital investment, and institutional arrangements. First, transit is seen as...

Bus stops attain their importance to the transit service from being the main points of contact between the passenger and the bus. Considering spatial attributes, both the location and the spacing of bus stops significantly affect transit service performance and passenger satisfaction, as they influence travel time in addition to their role in ensuring reasonable accessibility. Knowing that ever...

Drawing on individual-level mobility data from Germany between 1996 and 2009, this analysis econometrically investigates the determinants of automobile, public transit, and non-motorized travel. We are particularly interested in exploring whether gender plays a role in determining the relative use of motor and non-motorized modes, and, if so, how this role is mitigated or exacerbated by other s...

Drawing on individual-level mobility data from Germany between 1996 and 2009, this analysis econometrically investigates the determinants of automobile, public transit, and non-motorized travel against the backdrop of two questions: 1) Does gender play a role in determining the relative use of motor and non-motorized modes? 2) If so, how is this role mitigated or exacerbated by other socioecono...

Uncertainty and unreliability is a topic for all modes of transport. Car drivers as well as public transport users might not arrive at their destination in time, or in severe cases, not arrive at all. Du and Nicholson (1997) distinguished two sources of uncertainty. Firstly, supply variations such as road or track blockage leading to network degradations. Secondly, demand variations engendered ...

Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) constitute one of the main issues for critical Internet services. The widespread availability and simplicity of automated stressing tools has also promoted the voluntary participation to extensive attacks against known websites. Today the most effective (D)DoS detection schemes are based on information theory metrics, but their ef...

Transit agencies around the country have made significant investments since the late 1990s to provide improved service to cyclist-transit users (CTUs), that is, transit riders who bring bicycles with them by using bicycle racks installed on buses. Use of these bus bicycle racks appears to vary significantly from transit system to transit system. It is unclear, however, what specific factors con...