Taxis play an indispensable role as the main mode of paratransit in many cities in the
developing countries. To the best of our knowledge, research on taxi service quality, and …

Paratransit services offer flexible on-demand transportation filling crucial mobility gaps
otherwise unmet by conventional public transportation systems. A common problem …

Compared with men, women have different travel behavior. Various factors may affect
women's transportation-related decisions, especially in a developing country like Iran with a …

Semi-flexible transit (SFT) is commonly discussed as a cost-effective alternative to serving
public transportation users in low-demand conditions. Despite its considerable potential, the …

The growing availability of data coupled with advanced methods and computing power have
fostered organizations to adopt business analytics in their decision‐making. Nevertheless …

In this paper, we analyze the travel patterns of Iranian women, where typical patriarchal
views and specific social and cultural norms may differ from the patterns of those in western …

The scheduling of maintenance operations in railway is a major concern for both
maintenance planners and train dispatchers since it requires the track to be blocked and the …

We investigate a ferry network design problem with candidate service arcs (FNDP-SA),
which is a new variant motivated by areal-world case from Zhuhai Islands. In this research …

Many metropolitan cities in developing countries currently face an urban mass transit
transport gap. Some transportation authorities in these cities introduced the Bus Rapid …

This paper describes the main features and the objectives of a research project that is in an
initial phase. The project, namely NETCHIP, aims to propose a flexible mobility system …