The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has greatly impacted public transport ridership and service
provision across the world. As many countries start to navigate their return to normality, new …

When demand for transportation is low or highly variable, traditional public bus services tend
to lose their efficiency and typically frustrate (potential) passengers. In the literature, a large …

The efficiency of a transport system depends on several elements, such as available
technology, governmental policies, the planning process, and control strategies. Indeed, the …

This article focuses on optimizing a passenger train timetable in a heavily congested urban
rail corridor. When peak-hour demand temporally exceeds the maximum loading capacity of …

This book examines the main components affecting the viability of a public-transport service
from both the passenger and agency perspectives, and offers solutions to well-known …

This paper presents a global review of the crucial strategic and tactical steps of transit
planning: the design and scheduling of the network. These steps influence directly the …

When a bus is late and behind schedule, the stop-skipping scheme allows the bus vehicle to
skip one or more stops to reduce its travel time. The deadheading problem is a special case …

Bus bunching affects transit operations by increasing passenger waiting times and its
variability. This work proposes a new mathematical programming model to control vehicles …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews a survey on the operations research literature
applied to the domain of public transit, with a focus on recent contributions. It highlights a …

As is well known, bus systems are naturally unstable. Without control, buses on a single line
tend to bunch, reducing their punctuality in meeting a schedule. Although conventional …