by xumei chen, lei yu, liu yu and jifu guo inTroducTion As an innovative public transport option, bus rapid transit (BRT) has been widely applied in recent years. Big cities in China are experiencing rapid motorization at an alarming rate. In such a situation, many cities in China have attempted to bring BRT into their transit systems to address urban transport problems. A wave of BRT planning ...

1 Platooning allows vehicles to travel with small intervehicle distance in a coordinated fashion thanks 2 to vehicle-to-vehicle connectivity. When applied at a larger scale, platooning will create signifi3 cant opportunities for energy savings due to reduced aerodynamic drag, as well as increased road 4 capacity and congestion reduction resulting from shorter vehicle headways. However, these po...

This paper presents a systematic approach for analyzing the departure-time choice equilibrium (DTCE) problem of single bottleneck with heterogeneous commuters. The is based on fact that DTCE equivalently represented as linear programming special structure, which can be analytically solved by exploiting theory optimal transport combined decomposition technique. By applying proposed to several ty...

This paper presents two algorithms to analytically approximate work in process (WIP)-dependent inter-departure times for tandem queues composed of a series of M/M/1 systems. The first algorithm is used for homogeneous tandem queues, the second for such with bottlenecks. Both algorithms are based on the possible combinations of distributing the WIP on the queues. For each combination the time to...