Identifying the Transit Needs of Socioeconomic Groups by Evaluating the Relationship between a Network's Supply and Demand: A Case Study of the City of Amsterdam

An inclusive and sustainable transport network allows people the opportunity to access their daily needs. When there is a discrepancy between someone’s transport needs and their supplied network, they are at the risk of experiencing transport poverty. This study looks to define the transport needs for clusters of neighbourhoods of different...

Towards passenger-oriented simulation-based rescheduling in metro lines

Unreliability is a major source of discontent for passengers using public transport. Real-time rescheduling is one of the tools available to deal with it. Although passenger movements have an impact on the development of a disturbance in public transport operations, this effect is rarely accounted for in rescheduling models for metro networks....

Evaluation of public transport fare policy using smartcard data: Travel patterns change and distributional effects in Stockholm County

This study investigated the potential of ex-post fare policy evaluation utilising smartcard data. It looked into how to identify and measure the actual outcomes of a policy, define the degree of its success, and even find some unexpected side-effects of high importance. The study is based on a case of the public transport fare policy introduced...

Topological characterizing and clustering of public transport networks

Public transport networks (PTNs) have an impact on both travelers’ behavior and system operations. A meaningful approach to investigate PTNs is via their topological structure because it was found to be correlated to the operational performance, the total ridership, consumer experience, passenger flow distribution, and network resilience. A...

Travel Choices in Integrated Mobility Platforms

This research investigates the travel behavior of users of an integrated mobility platform. Passive revealed preference data is collected from a smartphone application for integrated mobility. This data, consisting of the choices in a multimodal journey planner, allows evaluating travel behavior in integrated environments with high ecological...

An assessment of the willingness to choose a self-driving bus for an urban trip: A public transport user’s perspective

The development of automated vehicles offers advantages for the transportation systems of the future. As a result, new and unknown challenges within the field of transportation arise. Moreover, there are uncertainties within the behavioural responses of travellers and amongst other things, the changes in the modal split within the transportation...