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Cats, O. (author), Ferranti, Francesco (author)Urban and regional areas worldwide exhibit a complex and uneven distribution of activities with certain areas attracting more people during different time periods. In this study we systemically classify different parts of the urban area which are most attractive as measured by their ability to attract visitors. A weekly visiting profile is...journal article 2022
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Lee, Kelvin (author), Jiang, Yu (author), Ceder, Avishai (Avi) (author), Dauwels, J.H.G. (author), Su, Rong (author), Nielsen, Otto Anker (author)With the emergence of innovations associated with public transport (PT) services, such as Mobility-as-a-Service, demand responsive transit, and autonomous vehicles, the door-to-door PT journey is achievable via multiple transfers between and within different PT modes. As such, seamless transfers between different modes of public...journal article 2022
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Shelat, S. (author), Cats, O. (author), van Cranenburgh, S. (author)With a few exceptions, public transport ridership around the world has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Travellers are now likely to adapt their behaviour with a focus on factors that contribute to the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Given the unprecedented spatial and temporal scale of this crisis, these changes in behaviour may even...journal article 2022
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Cats, O. (author), Ferranti, Francesco (author)The increasing availability of longitudinal individual human mobility traces enables the disaggregate analysis of temporal properties of mobility patterns. The objective of this study is to identify distinctive market segments in terms of habitual temporal travel patterns of public transport users. First, travel patterns are clustered using a...journal article 2022
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Wang, Z. (author), Pel, A.J. (author), Verma, T. (author), Krishnakumari, P.K. (author), van Brakel, Peter (author), van Oort, N. (author)Predictions on Public Transport (PT) ridership are beneficial as they allow for sufficient and cost-efficient deployment of vehicles. On an operational level, this relates to short-term predictions with lead times of less than an hour. Where conventional data sources on ridership, such as Automatic Fare Collection (AFC) data, may have longer...journal article 2022
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Stevens, Martijn (author), Correia, Gonçalo (author), Scheltes, Arthur (author), van Arem, B. (author)The continuing urbanization and corresponding increase in transport demand are putting pressure on the accessibility, safety, sustainability, livability, and efficiency of urbanized regions. Public transport is regarded as a sustainable mode of transport for these regions and therefore transport policies aim to increase its attractiveness....journal article 2022
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Yap, M.D. (author), Cats, O. (author)Urban metro and tram networks are regularly subject to planned disruptions, including closures, resulting from the need to maintain and renew infrastructure. In this study, we first empirically analyse the passenger demand response to planned public transport disruptions based on individual passenger travel behaviour, based on which we infer...journal article 2022
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Shelat, S. (author), Cats, O. (author), van Oort, N. (author), van Lint, J.W.C. (author)Unreliable waiting times may cause frustration and anxiety amongst public transport travellers. Although the effect of travel time reliability has been studied extensively, most studies have used stated preferences which have disadvantages, such as an inherent hypothetical bias, or have analysed revealed preferences for road traffic. Here, we...journal article 2022
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Yap, M.D. (author), Cats, O. (author), Törnquist Krasemann, Johanna (author), van Oort, N. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author)Due to the multi-level nature of public transport networks, disruption impacts may spill-over beyond the primary effects occurring at the disrupted network level. During a public transport disruption, it is therefore important to quantify and control the disruption impacts for the total public transport network, instead of delimiting the...journal article 2022
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Veeneman, Wijnand (author)This chapter introduces governance as the ruleset that stakeholders work with when making decisions, in this on how to deal with COVID crisis in public transport. This chapter looks at several countries and the way in which their decisions, shared between authorities (health and transport) and operators, have shaped the effects on ridership. In...book chapter 2022
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Diab, I. (author), Scheurwater, Bram (author), Saffirio, Alice (author), Chandra Mouli, G.R. (author), Bauer, P. (author)Reducing the environmental impact of transportation requires the successful integration of renewable energy sources into the electrical transportation networks. However, the mismatch between renewable generation and the intermittent bus schedules causes temporary absence of loads and creates considerable excess energy, potentially rendering...journal article 2022
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Peftitsi, Soumela (author), Jenelius, Erik (author), Cats, O. (author)Overcrowding has become a big challenge for public transport systems, affecting passengers’ travel experience. At the same time, service supply is often underutilized due to large variations in crowding across services, vehicle trips on the same service and different compartments of the same vehicle. Real-time operational measures, such as...journal article 2022
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Drabicki, Arkadiusz (author), Kucharski, Rafał (author), Cats, O. (author)A common problem in public transport systems is bus bunching, characterized by a negative feedback loop between service headways, number of boarding passengers and dwell times. In this study, we examine whether providing real-time crowding information (RTCI) at the stop regarding the two next vehicle departures can stimulate passengers to...journal article 2022
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Cats, O. (author), Birch, Nigel (author)The development of public transport networks in polycentric regions involves making complex trade-offs between extending network coverage, densifying local connections, offering improved connections between urban centers and increasing capacity on existing links. Moreover, different modalities might be suitable for each of these development...journal article 2021
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Liu, Tao (author), Cats, O. (author), Gkiotsalitis, Konstantinos (author)While transferring between public transport services has a negative impact on the level-of-service, it is an inevitable feature of public transport networks. Transfer coordination can help reduce passenger transfer waiting times and improve service connectivity. In this paper, we systematically review the literature on transfer coordination...review 2021
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Gkiotsalitis, Konstantinos (author), Cats, O. (author)Public transport is one of the most disrupted sectors of the COVID-19 pandemic with reported ridership drops up to 90% in majorly affected countries. As many government authorities strive to partially resume activities, public transport operators are in an urgent need for models that can evaluate the impact of different social distancing...journal article 2021
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Gkiotsalitis, K. (author), Cats, O. (author)In this literature review, we systematically review studies on public transit control with a specific focus on at-stop measures. In our synthesis of the relevant literature, we consider three perspectives: (1) the mathematical models of the proposed methodologies; (2) their complexity; (3) their applicability in real-time operations and their...journal article 2021
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Dixit, M. (author), Cats, O. (author), Brands, T. (author), van Oort, N. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author)Capturing unobserved correlation between overlapping routes is a non-trivial problem in route choice modelling. For urban transit networks, research so far has been inconclusive on how this overlap is perceived by travellers. We estimate a series of path size correction logit (PSCL) models to account for alternative specifications of route...journal article 2021
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Peftitsi, Soumela (author), Jenelius, Erik (author), Cats, O. (author)As travel demand grows in many cities around the world, overcrowding in public transport systems has become a major issue and has many negative effects for both users and operators. Measures to address on-board congestion span from large-scale strategic investments (e.g. increasing infrastructure capacity), through tactical planning (e.g....journal article 2021
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Drabicki, Arkadiusz (author), Cats, O. (author), Kucharski, R.M. (author)Bus bunching is a well-known problem in public transport networks. It is characterized by a self-amplifying relationship between uneven distribution of rising passenger loads and deteriorating service regularity. The focus of this study is to analyse whether this negative feedback loop can be addressed by providing real-time crowding...conference paper 2021