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View article: Improving Rural Quality of Life by Combining Public Transportation with Demand Responsive Transport Systems
Improving Rural Quality of Life by Combining Public Transportation with Demand Responsive Transport Systems Open
We recommend improving rural quality of life by combining public transport with demand responsive transport systems. To achieve this policy recommendation, we propose the following: (1) Promote the creation of demand responsive transport (…
View article: Causal resilience curves: A data-driven framework for quantifying the spatiotemporal impacts of metro service disruptions
Causal resilience curves: A data-driven framework for quantifying the spatiotemporal impacts of metro service disruptions Open
Urban metro systems move vast numbers of passengers with a high level of efficiency in resource use, but frequently experience disruptions that result in delays, crowding, and deterioration in passenger satisfaction and patronage. To quant…
View article: Examining the impacts of capital investment in London’s Underground: A long-term analysis
Examining the impacts of capital investment in London’s Underground: A long-term analysis Open
The deferred repair of infrastructure is often a pressing issue since infrastructure failures can have severe economic consequences for both operators and users. Although the benefits of non-expansion capital spending are well-known within…
View article: Benchmarking Travel Time and Demand Prediction Methods Using Large-scale Metro Smart Card Data
Benchmarking Travel Time and Demand Prediction Methods Using Large-scale Metro Smart Card Data Open
Urban mass transit systems generate large volumes of data via automated systems established for ticketing, signalling, and other operational processes. This study is motivated by the observation that despite the availability of sophisticat…
View article: Introduction to the Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing
Introduction to the Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing Open
Pricing and financing constitute one of the main battlefields in the design and implementation of transport policy, and represent what many may associate with transport economics. Indeed, the price of a transport service is the most visibl…
View article: An evaluation framework for operational interventions on urban mass public transport during a pandemic
An evaluation framework for operational interventions on urban mass public transport during a pandemic Open
Decision making in a rapidly changing context, such as the development and progression of a pandemic, requires a dynamic assessment of multiple variable and competing factors. Seemingly beneficial courses of action can rapidly fail to deli…
View article: Optimal congestion control strategies for near-capacity urban metros: Informing intervention via fundamental diagrams
Optimal congestion control strategies for near-capacity urban metros: Informing intervention via fundamental diagrams Open
Congestion; operational delays due to a vicious circle of passenger congestion and train-queuing; is an escalating problem for metro systems because it has negative consequences from passenger discomfort to eventual mode shifts. Congestion…
View article: Sustainable urban rail funding: Insights from a century-long global dataset
Sustainable urban rail funding: Insights from a century-long global dataset Open
In recent years, urban rail funding has become an increasing concern in some western cities. The underlying issues over ridership and funding has largely been driven by trends such as increasing teleworking and new transport modes like rid…
View article: A Dynamic Choice Model to Estimate the User Cost of Crowding with Large-Scale Transit Data
A Dynamic Choice Model to Estimate the User Cost of Crowding with Large-Scale Transit Data Open
Efficient mass transit provision should be responsive to the behaviour of passengers. Operators often conduct surveys to elicit passenger perspectives, but these can be expensive to administer and can suffer from hypothetical biases. With …
View article: Social distancing in public transport: mobilising new technologies for demand management under the Covid-19 crisis
Social distancing in public transport: mobilising new technologies for demand management under the Covid-19 crisis Open
Dense urban areas are especially hardly hit by the Covid-19 crisis due to the limited availability of public transport, one of the most efficient means of mass mobility. In light of the Covid-19 pandemic, public transport operators are exp…
View article: Revisiting the empirical fundamental relationship of traffic flow for\n highways using a causal econometric approach
Revisiting the empirical fundamental relationship of traffic flow for\n highways using a causal econometric approach Open
The fundamental relationship of traffic flow is empirically estimated by\nfitting a regression curve to a cloud of observations of traffic variables.\nSuch estimates, however, may suffer from the confounding/endogeneity bias due\nto omitte…
View article: Revisiting the empirical fundamental relationship of traffic flow for highways using a causal econometric approach
Revisiting the empirical fundamental relationship of traffic flow for highways using a causal econometric approach Open
The fundamental relationship of traffic flow is empirically estimated by fitting a regression curve to a cloud of observations of traffic variables. Such estimates, however, may suffer from the confounding/endogeneity bias due to omitted v…
View article: A causal inference approach to measure the vulnerability of urban metro systems
A causal inference approach to measure the vulnerability of urban metro systems Open
Transit operators need vulnerability measures to understand the level of service degradation under disruptions. This paper contributes to the literature with a novel causal inference approach for estimating station-level vulnerability in m…
View article: Congestion in near capacity metro operations: optimum boardings and alightings at bottleneck stations.
Congestion in near capacity metro operations: optimum boardings and alightings at bottleneck stations. Open
During peak hours, metro systems often operate at high service frequencies to transport large volumes of passengers. However, the punctuality of such operations can be severely impacted by a vicious circle of passenger congestion and train…
View article: Optimal congestion control strategies for near-capacity urban metros: informing intervention via fundamental diagrams
Optimal congestion control strategies for near-capacity urban metros: informing intervention via fundamental diagrams Open
Congestion; operational delays due to a vicious circle of passenger-congestion and train-queuing; is an escalating problem for metro systems because it has negative consequences from passenger discomfort to eventual mode-shifts. Congestion…
View article: A Causal Inference Approach to Measure the Vulnerability of Urban Metro Systems
A Causal Inference Approach to Measure the Vulnerability of Urban Metro Systems Open
Transit operators need vulnerability measures to understand the level of service degradation under disruptions. This paper contributes to the literature with a novel causal inference approach for estimating station-level vulnerability in m…
View article: A Dynamic Choice Model with Heterogeneous Decision Rules: Application in\n Estimating the User Cost of Rail Crowding
A Dynamic Choice Model with Heterogeneous Decision Rules: Application in\n Estimating the User Cost of Rail Crowding Open
Crowding valuation of subway riders is an important input to various\nsupply-side decisions of transit operators. The crowding cost perceived by a\ntransit rider is generally estimated by capturing the trade-off that the rider\nmakes betwe…
View article: MaaS economics: Should we fight car ownership with subscriptions to alternative modes?
MaaS economics: Should we fight car ownership with subscriptions to alternative modes? Open
Proponents of the Mobility as a Service concept claim that subscriptions to alternative modes can effectively reduce car ownership and the adverse effects of underpriced car use. We test this hypothesis in a microeconomic model with endoge…