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{"title":"Train passengers' perceptions and preferences for different platform and carriage design features","authors":"Jie Yang ,&nbsp;Nirajan Shiwakoti ,&nbsp;Richard Tay","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100085","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Specific design features and functions on the platform and inside of the train carriage can significantly affect how efficiently and smoothly passengers can move in and out of the train. Industry follows the design standard and guidelines to satisfy the minimum requirement. However, the views of rail users are often overlooked and not well understood. This study fills the knowledge gap by investigating different platform and train carriage design features and understanding train passengers' perceptions and preferences for the proposed design. An online passenger survey targeting Melbourne Metro train users was conducted. By analyzing 429 valid responses, we gained insights into passengers' perceptions and preferences regarding train and platform design. A novel finding is that a vertical pole is the most preferred handhold type, while a rigid handrail is the least preferred handhold type. The 2+2 seating is voted as the most preferred interior layout, which is consistent with previous studies. The ranking on 2+2 seating layout is moderately associated with travel time and travel frequency, while the ranking on 2+3 seating is strongly associated with travel time. It is also found that the preferences for boarding sign and occupancy sign design are significantly associated with gender, age group, and travel frequency. Surprisingly, no statistically significant associations were found between any of the personal or travel variables with queuing sign preference, side seating ranking, or hanging strips ranking. The findings drawn from the analysis and the recommendation of this paper can provide valuable guidance for rail manufacturers in implementing design changes, as well as for service operators in adopting new strategies and interventions to enhance service quality and customer satisfaction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100085"},"PeriodicalIF":12.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X24000055/pdfft?md5=74ead63f34ea59b6ce9f31a36882d63e&pid=1-s2.0-S1077291X24000055-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140113004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Improving demand responsive transit services: Insights from the London field test","authors":"Seyedmostafa Zahedi ,&nbsp;Haris N. Koutsopoulos ,&nbsp;Zhenliang Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100107","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100107","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper discusses the key insights gained from “GoSutton”, a Demand Responsive Transit (DRT) trial in the borough of Sutton in the suburbs of London during 2019–2020. The DRT service expands mobility options for the residents of the service area through the provision of on-demand, curb-to-curb rides. The main goals of the paper are to: 1) evaluate the performance of the DRT service and provide insight into its operation, 2) analyze the behavior of customers to better understand their purchase decisions and recommend strategies to increase ridership and usage, 3) develop a Level of Service (LOS) model to inform future trials on the interactions between supply, demand, and LOS, as well as identify key factors that impact performance, and 4) evaluate the opportunities to benefit from economies of scale through integrating appropriate paratransit requests and DRT services. The results show potential directions for improvement that can inform future deployments (for example, providing discounts for referrals, new users, providing bundles, and passes). Consolidation of select paratransit and DRT trips can save an average of 8 % on fleet size and 13 % on vehicle-kilometers traveled.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100107"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142357104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the role of public transport service and walking route related factors to identify maximum walking distances to bus stops in the Netherlands","authors":"Peter van der Waerden ,&nbsp;Jaap van der Waerden ,&nbsp;Michiel Burger","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100096","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents a study regarding the factors affecting the maximum distance travelers are willing to walk to a bus stop. The study focuses on bus services provided at and walking routes towards bus stops. Travelers’ evaluations are collected using a stated preference experiment. Based on 7911 evaluations of 879 respondents, a latent class ordered logit model is estimated showing that both bus service and walking route related attributes significantly contribute to the maximum distance travelers are willing to walk from home to a bus stop. The parameter estimates show that the most influential attributes are the bus frequency at the bus stop and the presence of street lighting along the route between home and bus stop. The model also shows that based on the evaluations three different classes of respondents can be distinguished. Membership of a class depends on traveler related characteristics: gender, residential area, and bus use.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100096"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X2400016X/pdfft?md5=bbe3361e7efc06d26c1aaee43e90be99&pid=1-s2.0-S1077291X2400016X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141433823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bus stop spacing statistics: Theory and evidence","authors":"Saipraneeth Devunuri ,&nbsp;Lewis J. Lehe ,&nbsp;Shirin Qiam ,&nbsp;Ayush Pandey ,&nbsp;Dana Monzer","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100083","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Discussions of bus stop consolidation sometimes refer to average stop spacings, but there are no reliable statistics about spacings, nor methodologies for calculating them. This paper aims to clarify discussions of bus stop spacings by introducing clear definitions, a methodology for creating statistics from General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) files, and a python package, gtfs-segments, which splits bus networks into isolated ‘segments.’ With the package, we calculate national-level statistics from 539 US transit providers and 83 Canadian providers, as well as agency-level statistics for 30 providers in the US, 10 in Canada, and a sample of 38 providers from other countries. Our estimates of US and Canadian mean spacings are both around 350 m (slightly wider than five stops per mile). US spacings are wider than sometimes claimed but narrower than those in other countries. Finally, the paper gives examples of metrics created by combining GTFS with data from other sources and proposes research ideas and applications to transit planning involving fine-grained stop spacing data.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100083"},"PeriodicalIF":12.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X24000031/pdfft?md5=ee2ee2ba27bcfce78d2065156e18a85b&pid=1-s2.0-S1077291X24000031-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140052170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does fare-free transit increase labor-force participation and reduce income inequality?","authors":"Kenneth Ofosu-Kwabe ,&nbsp;Siew Hoon Lim ,&nbsp;Narendra Malalgoda","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fare-free transit policy is not new to several public transit systems and communities in the U.S., as some local transit agencies have begun implementing fare-free transit policies or variations of them since the 1960s. Over time, the discussion regarding fare-free transit has been reignited by decreasing ridership trends in recent years and other thematic inquiries surrounding access, mobility and equity, operational efficiency, agency financial health, and community impacts. This research empirically investigates the effects of fare-free policy on transit ridership, labor force participation and income inequality. Using panel data regression models, we draw several conclusions: 1) Fare-free transit significantly increases ridership. 2) Fare-free transit neither significantly increases labor force participation rate nor reduces income inequality in small and medium-sized urbans. 3) Fare policy aside, external factors such as increased household income and work-from-home significantly reduce the demand for transit in small-urbanized areas.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100095"},"PeriodicalIF":12.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X24000158/pdfft?md5=b6d101a0cefba2158003faed3140e6eb&pid=1-s2.0-S1077291X24000158-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141424449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating public a priori acceptance of autonomous modular transit using an extended unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model","authors":"Sina Rejali ,&nbsp;Kayvan Aghabayk ,&nbsp;Amin Mohammadi ,&nbsp;Nirajan Shiwakoti","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100081","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aims to assess the public acceptance of Autonomous Modular Transit (AMT) and identify key factors influencing people’s intentions regarding the future use of AMT. While the integration of autonomy and modularity in transport systems has gained attention in recent years among researchers, the study of AMT acceptance is non-existent in the literature. To address this research gap, the study proposes an extended Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) model to explore public acceptance of AMT. It integrates the original model’s constructs with two additional factors: trust and perceived green usefulness, while also investigating the role of public transport usage behavior in intention. Data were collected through an online survey involving 1662 participants from different cities in Iran. Structural equation modelling was used to evaluate the conceptual model. Multiple t-tests and ANOVA tests were conducted to evaluate the effects of public transport usage behavior and demographics on the model’s constructs. The results showed that the majority of respondents showed their acceptance toward using AMT when available despite their limited prior knowledge about the system. Perceived usefulness was the strongest predictor of intention, followed by social influence and hedonic motivations. Although the COVID-19 pandemic significantly reduced the number of public transport (PT) regular users, this group showed a higher intention to use AMT compared to PT non-regular users. Furthermore, respondents aged over 60 years stated a lower intention to use AMT than their younger counterparts. Given that the mass adoption of AMT depends on public acceptance, this study is expected to serve as a benchmark for comparing countries with similar cultural contexts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100081"},"PeriodicalIF":12.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X24000018/pdfft?md5=f75796587b91b9b0f5c5c2157dec538d&pid=1-s2.0-S1077291X24000018-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139907426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analyzing the relationship between bus and ride-hailing use in a large emerging economy city: A bivariate ordered probit model application","authors":"Marcelle Dorneles Ribeiro ,&nbsp;Shanna Trichês Lucchesi ,&nbsp;Ana Margarita Larranaga ,&nbsp;Patricia Sauri Lavieri ,&nbsp;Yu-Tong Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study analyzes the use of ride-hailing and bus services from a multi-modal user perspective by jointly modeling individuals’ monthly frequency of use of both bus and ride-hailing services. A bivariate ordered probit model is estimated to capture the influence of socio-demographic and attitudinal characteristics as well as unobserved factors that may simultaneously influence the travel frequency by both modes. We use data collected in a survey of travelers from Porto Alegre, Brazil. The results characterize the profile of local frequent ride-hailing users as young, medium-income, self-employed individuals with a propensity toward the use of technology and a low inclination for car ownership. Most importantly, we observe that after controlling for unobserved factors that simultaneously contribute to higher trip frequencies by both modes, frequent bus users demonstrate a lower propensity toward ride-hailing use.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100084"},"PeriodicalIF":12.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X24000043/pdfft?md5=90ab0d10d71c4bd30791da7a5efbe9ba&pid=1-s2.0-S1077291X24000043-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140096322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integration of urban aerial cable cars into public transit: Operational capacity limits due to passenger queuing at stations","authors":"Morten Flesser ,&nbsp;Amer Shalaby ,&nbsp;Bernhard Friedrich","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As the airspace is increasingly gaining importance as a new frontier to improve urban mobility, aerial cable cars are being discussed and already appropriately implemented worldwide to supplement conventional modes of transport in urban areas. Transit planners and designers should carefully consider the interoperability and integration of cable car services with conventional modes of transport. In particular, excessive delays and overcrowding conditions due to deficits in interoperability should be avoided. This challenge of interoperability arises as conventional modes of transport operate predominantly on a timetable, and most cable car technologies operate in such close headways that they can be considered as almost continuous conveyors. The advantage of having almost always a transport vessel of a cable car ready for boarding ceases when large volumes of passengers arrive in batches, for example from higher-capacity modes of transport or at large events, resulting in long queues. Traditional manuals do not yet reflect these aspects of interoperability adequately. Consequently, this work filled this research gap about the interoperability of cable cars related to handling high volumes of incoming passenger arrivals that transfer in larger batches from feeder modes and often result in queues at cable car stations. The following objectives were targeted: (1) determine passenger capacity limits of conventional modes of transport acting as feeders to cable cars and (2) specify space requirements to be provided due to the potential queues that arise. To answer these, methods of Queuing Theory were used and results were placed in Levels of Services of traditional manuals. Key performance indicators included queue length, waiting time, and corresponding queue space. The results revealed that cable cars can be a useful complement to public transit but are of limited feasibility due to cumulative queues at arrival rates with larger crowds. High-capacity feeder modes (e.g., commuter rails) are limited to 20-minute headways depending on cable car technologies. Further, queuing areas of up to 1000 square meters (around 10,800 ft²) should be considered. Several operational limitations are presented as guidance for practitioners and policymakers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100094"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X24000146/pdfft?md5=44b12b7fb79a96f1a3caf781185f16bc&pid=1-s2.0-S1077291X24000146-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141543831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A comparison of time series methods for post-COVID transit ridership forecasting","authors":"Ashley Hightower ,&nbsp;Abubakr Ziedan ,&nbsp;Jing Guo ,&nbsp;Xiaojuan Zhu ,&nbsp;Candace Brakewood","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100097","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Transit agencies conduct system-level ridership forecasting for planning, budgeting, and other administrative purposes. However, the COVID-19 pandemic introduced substantial changes in transit ridership levels and seasonal patterns, which has impacted the performance of ridership forecasting. Although time series methods are commonly used for forecasting transportation demand, they have received limited use in practice for public transit ridership forecasting. This study compares the performance of seven time series forecasting methods for predicting system-wide, monthly transit ridership for heavy rail agencies in the continental United States. The forecasting methods are: ETS, ARIMA, STL with ETS, STL with ARIMA, TBATS, a neural network, and a hybrid model. Ridership was forecasted for pre- and post-COVID periods (pre- and post- March 2020), as well as for the full series (January 2002 to December 2023). The MAPE and MASE were used to compare forecast performance. Using the pre-COVID period, 43% of the models produced a MAPE below 5% and 82% produced a MAPE below 10%. Using the full-series and post-COVID periods, only about 10% of the models produced a MAPE below 5% and half produced a MAPE below 10%. The classical and hybrid methods outperformed the other models using the full series period, and the TBATS, neural network, and hybrid methods outperformed the other methods using the post-COVID period. The findings suggest that even a few years into the post-COVID era, patterns that were typical of heavy rail ridership before the pandemic have not returned at most agencies in the United States, posing challenges to forecasting post-COVID ridership.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100097"},"PeriodicalIF":12.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X24000171/pdfft?md5=f1f8f9c88913c7fd129396e93af95027&pid=1-s2.0-S1077291X24000171-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141424448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Individual accessibility impacts of public transport automation on (groups of) rural dwellers","authors":"Alberto Dianin ,&nbsp;Michael Gidam ,&nbsp;Elisa Ravazzoli ,&nbsp;Agnieszka Elzbieta Stawinoga ,&nbsp;Georg Hauger","doi":"10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2024.100098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Rural areas typically register low accessibility. This fact negatively affects their attractiveness, the well-being of their population in general, and population subgroups with limited access to private cars or strong space-time constraints (like minors, the elderly or members of large households). Collective autonomous vehicles (AVs) might improve this situation, e.g. by enhancing standard line-based services or introducing alternative shared schemes. Nevertheless, the collective usage of AVs in rural transport and their potential impacts on accessibility are still underexplored, with most research focused on the urban context. This study aims to fill this gap by analysing the public transport accessibility impacts that five alternative AV supply scenarios might generate in the rural valley of Mühlwald (South Tyrol, Italy). To this end, a variant of the standard space-time accessibility model developed by the authors is used. This focuses on accessibility by public transport specifically, and measures it to both fixed activities and discretionary opportunities. Accessibility impacts are first estimated at the person-based level for a sample of residents. Then, they are aggregated for the whole sample and six subgroups that tend to experience more substantial accessibility issues based on the literature. Results show that line-based AV applications provide limited accessibility benefits. Conversely, time-flexible applications like ride-shared vans or combinations of line-based trunks and on-demand feeders over peak and off-peak hours may provide the most evident advantages, especially for the subgroups with the tightest space-time schedules. Although these results do not reflect other possible impacts of AVs (e.g. environmental effects), they provide policymakers with valuable insights into the collective AV usages that could be most suitable in the rural context regarding person-based accessibility gains.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47173,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Public Transportation","volume":"26 ","pages":"Article 100098"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X24000183/pdfft?md5=0b225aa1845ebb2522bb406c82ae7d84&pid=1-s2.0-S1077291X24000183-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141606794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}