Background Window opening during bus transportation is recommended as a tuberculosis prevention strategy.Yet, drivers are affected by lack knowledge and risk perception of passengers and assistants. Boosting knowledge of and notifying the high risk of tuberculosis transmission for every passenger could be too costly. However, strategies targeting bus drivers as key agents unlike targeting all p...

This paper explores the merits of the single-path selective-broadcast interconnection (SBI) implemented in fiberoptic technology. This is a static, passive, fiber-optic interconnection among a set of stations, each equipped with multiple, say r , transmitters and receivers. It employs c 2 buses, each interconnecting a subset of the stations, and provides a single optical path between any two st...

We are developing a location-based information delivery system to facilitate efficient and safe use of public transportation by people who have visual or cognitive impairments. This system comprises Wi-Fi beacons (access points) that are placed at bus stations and inside bus vehicles. Users of this system receive information on their cell phone, without the need for GPS or for Internet connecti...

Nowadays, the operating scales of the public transport providers can hardly meet the market demand because of the fast expanding volume of intercity passengers, the laggard bus dispatches and proper route management systems. From the societal perspective, this paper, under the framework of a public transit network with bus service providers and users, presents an integrated busses network manag...

We study a queueing system with Poisson arrivals on a bus line indexed by integers. The buses move at constant speed to the right and the time of service per customer getting on the bus is fixed. The customers arriving at station i wait for a bus if this latter is less than di stations before, where di is non-decreasing. We determine the asymptotic behavior of a single bus and when two buses ev...

We consider a high speed ATM bus, which can serve a small number of stations (~ 16). The bus is slotted and each slot is long enough to contain one ATM cell. Transmission on the bus is controlled by an arbitrator. Each station sends its status information to the arbitrator at regular intervals. Based on this information the arbitrator makes polling decisions. Due to transmission and processing ...

|A random access protocol for packet-switched, multiple access communication via time slotted busses is investigated. Assuming heavy tra c for all stations, the access probabilities are determined as to allocate a certain portion of the channel capacity to individual stations for achieving prescribed service requirements. In the in nite bu er case with Poisson arrivals the probability generatin...

This paper addresses a bi-modal multi-objective discrete urban road network design problem. The problem includes the simultaneous design of urban road and bus networks in urban areas in which the authorities play a major role in designing bus network topology. The road network design consists of decision making for lane additions to the existing streets, new street constructions, determining th...

After the establishment of the first quarantine station in the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik) in 1377, the states and principalities of Italy developed a sophisticated system of defensive quarantine in an attempt to protect themselves from the ravages of plague. Using largely unknown and unseen historical maps, this paper reconstructs the extent and operation of the system used. It i...