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...

Automated offline detection of disruptions using smart card data: A case study of the metro network of Washington DC

Service reliability is one of the most important performance measures to public transport users. Detecting disruptions helps to measure service reliability, which can be used by public transport operators to improve this reliability. In this thesis, a methodology is described to automatically detect disruptions offline, using smart card data....