This work addresses two transit operationsplanning activities: timetable development and vehiclescheduling with different vehicle sizes and types. The work is a mixture between reviewed and new methodologies including some case studies. Alternative timetables are constructed with either even headways, but not necessarily even passenger loads or even average passenger loads, but not even headway...

in an effort to expand the disciplinary discussions on transfer in l2 writing and because most studies have focused on transfer as reuse and not as an adequate adaptation of writing knowledge in new contexts, the present study as the first of its kind aimed to explore the issue of adaptive transfer in an english for general academic purposes (egap) writing course. the study thus focused on type...

Public transit plays a key role in shaping the transportation structure of large and fast growing cities. To cope with high population and employment density, such cities usually resort to multi-modal transit services, such as rail, BRT and bus. These modes are strategically connected to form an effective transit network. Among the transit modes, bus stops need to be properly deployed to mainta...

With the growing development of smart cities, public transit forecasting has begun to attract significant attention. In this paper, we propose an approach for forecasting passenger boarding choices and public transit passenger flow. Our prediction model is based on mining common user behaviors for semantic trajectories and enriching features using knowledge from geographic and weather data. All...

The frequency of incidents negatively changes public perception with regard to the public safety in transit systems. The level of safety expressed as performance measures, ensures contractors and users that a quality safety level is maintained. Both the private and public sectors in the U.S. annually report accurate data to the National Transit Database (NTD) to be used in assessing the progres...

On 4 October 1957, without warning, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and with it the space age. The United States was taken by surprise. We had no receiving equipment to listen to the satellite, and worst of all, we didn’t know what the satellite did. This external stimulus led to the Navy Navigation Satellite System, known as Transit, an all-weather satellite navigational system that allow...

About 20% of the population suffer from constipation. For the common types of functional constipation, idiopathic and IBS related constipation, the proportion of women is about 80-90%. It is important to structure the management of this large patient group. The duration of symptoms is of relevance. In general, a long history allows for more restricted investigations, and the management can be f...

This study seeks to examine transit’s role in promoting social equity by assessing the before-after impacts of recent transit changes in the Twin Cities, including the opening of the Hiawatha light-rail line, on job accessibility among workers of different wage categories. Geospatial, descriptive, and regression analyses find that proximity to light-rail stations and bus stops offering direct r...

This paper presents an acyclic real-time traffic signal control model with transit priority based on a rolling horizon process for isolated intersections. The developed model consists of two components, including: an Improved Genetic Algorithm (IGA)-based signal optimization module and a microscopic traffic simulation module. The acyclic real-time traffic signal control model optimizes the phas...

DM, diabetes mellitus; HbA1C, hemoglobin A1C; BM, bowel movement. TO THE EDITOR: I read with interest the study by Park et al regarding inhibitory effect of ramosetron on accelerated upper gastrointestinal (GI) transit of male guinea pigs. In the study, GI transit was assessed as the migration of charcoal mixture from the pylorus to the most distal point of migration and expressed as a percenta...