Ridership is a key goal in the transit industry. Conventional transit analysis focuses on two types of users—captive and choice riders—but rarely aims to understand the preferences of non-transit riders. This research aims to better understand habits and preferences—for both users and non-users of the transit system—as they relate to the transit market in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Our ...

The neo-classical and the economic doctrines dominating the governmental policies show their impact on the recent transportation policies, basing these policies on the demand and the efficiency criteria instead of the equity concerns. The public transit system operating for the remote areas is less cost-effective, eventually leading to reach a low level of service quality. In the metropolitan a...

Supercomputing networks are designed to minimize message latency. The focus on low latency implies a best effort attempt to deliver each message injected onto the network as soon as possible. Ostensibly, prioritizing message latency is important, and there are numerous examples of applications that benefit from it, but while this latency-centric view of a network seems logical, it often leads t...

The actual bus headway often deviates from the planned departure frequency because of external factors, such as traffic conditions and public transport demand, leading to transit resource waste and reducing the quality of service. In view of the existing shortcomings of the current dispatching strategy, a mixed integer programming model, integrating a bus-holding and stop-skipping strategy, is ...

In this paper, a multi-perspective decision support system (MP-DSS)‎ ‎to design hierarchical public transportation network is developed‎. ‎Since this problem depends on different perspectives‎, ‎MP-DSS consists of two sub-systems with macro and micro sub-systems based on travel information‎, ‎land use and expert knowledge‎. ‎In the micro sub-system‎, ‎two sub-modules are developed considering o...

In response to major societal trends, rural transit operators should consider different ways to organize, design, and deliver public transit services. This article summarizes societal changes affecting rural areas and identifies five “new paradigms” in rural service organization and delivery to meet the needs created in many rural areas. The article concludes that many operators in a variety of...