The mobility of modern metropolises strongly relies on urban rail transit (URT) systems, and such a heavy dependence causes that even minor service interruptions would make the URT systems unsustainable. This study aims at optimally dispatching the ground feeder-bus to coordinate with the urban rails' operation for eliminating the effect of unexpected service interruptions in URT corridors. A f...

The Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) station is the interface between passengers and services. The station is crucial to line operation as it is typically the only location where buses can pass each other. Congestion may occur here when buses maneuvering into and out of the platform lane interfere with bus flow, or when a queue of buses forms upstream of the platform lane blocking the passing lane. Furt...

Multi-Chip Module design is an increasingly common design style for integrated circuits. The area taken up by buses in a multi-chip module design has a signiicant eeect on the size of the circuit. This paper considers several diierent methods that reduce the required number of buses. Two models of interchip communication are studied. The rst, called immediate transfer, requires that all values ...

In this paper we consider the use of optical slab waveguides as buses in a parallel computing environment. We show that slab buses can connect to many more elements than conventional electrical or ber optic buses. We also introduce a novel multiplexing scheme called mode division multiplexing that vastly increases the number of independent channels that a single slab can support. We show that o...

The efficiency of the public transport system in any city depends on integration of its major public transport modes. Suburban railway and public buses are the modes normally used by the majority of commuters in metropolitan cities of developed and developing countries. Integration of these two services reduces overall journey time of an individual. In this research, a model is developed for op...

OBJECTIVE To observe pupil behaviour on school buses in Israel and identify hazards as a basis for improving school bus safety. METHODS Data on student, bus driver and chaperone behaviours and on hazards associated with school buses, bus loading zones and bus stops were collected during an observational study conducted on school buses in rural communities in Israel. This report focuses on obs...