Trains often arrive delayed at stations where passengers have to change to other trains. The question of delay management is whether these trains should wait for the original train or depart on time. In traditional delay management models passengers always take their originally planned route. This means, they are in case of a missed connection always delayed with the cycle time of the timetable...

BACKGROUND Transporting over two billion passengers per year, global airline travel has the potential to spread emerging infectious diseases, both via transportation of infectious cases and through in-flight transmission. Current World Health Organization (WHO) guidance recommends contact tracing of passengers seated within two rows of a case of influenza during air travel. OBJECTIVES The obj...

Train diagram is the basis on which passengers make their choice on trains before going on a trip. It is directly related to the level of service to passengers. Based on passengers’ travel demand and with the limitation of the starting time interval, station dwell time and other operation time intervals, this study constructs a high-speed train diagram optimization model, aiming to minimize the...

Studies have shown that the effect of passengers on accident propensity among young drivers is ambiguous—in some cases positive and some negative. In Sweden, various kinds of information are compiled in registers, including a national accident database and exposure data collected in a national investigation of the driving habits of license holders. Access to such data offers a good opportunity ...

MORE than two billion passengers board commercial airplanes every year.§ Airline travel is inherently safe and reasonably comfortable, but factors including psychological stress, jet lag, and preexisting disease cause a small number of passengers to become ill while flying. The average age of airline passengers is increasing with that of the general population, and older passengers may have one...

The aim of this paper is to study: (1) the prevalence of flight anxiety among Norwegian airline passengers; (2) situations that may be of concern during flights and situations not related to flying; (3) whether passengers feel more afraid after the terror act of September 11, 2001; and (4) whether passengers were more afraid in 2002 than in 1986.A questionnaire was distributed during domestic f...

We propose an algorithm for optimal delay management. Delay management means a decision whether or not to keep a connection between trains and is made by dispatchers when trains are delayed. We set dissatisfaction of all passengers in the whole railway network as a criterion and develop an algorithm which seeks for a delay management plan which minimizes passengers’ dissatisfaction. The algorit...

Air travel has increased steadily over the last decade, and its effect on the health of passengers has been the subject of much debate. There is a paucity of evidence on the effects of air travel on oxygen saturation in general populations. The peripheral oxygen saturation and pulse rate of 84 passengers, aged 1-78 years, were measured by pulse oximetry at round level and altitude during air tr...

To the Editor: Infectious diseases can spread rapidly by air travel, as did severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003. Public health measures at airports might protect passengers and employees from such diseases and delay spread into the general population. The SARS epidemic was contained largely through traditional public health interventions (1,2). These interventions included recommen...

We present a constraint programming formulation for the elevator trip origin-destination matrix estimation problem, and study different deterministic and randomized algorithms to solve the problem. An elevator trip consists of successive stops in one direction of travel with passengers inside the elevator. It can be defined as a directed network, where the nodes correspond to the stops on the t...