Neighborhood-level interventions provide an opportunity to better understand the impact that neighborhoods have on health. In 2004, municipal authorities in Medellín, Colombia, built a public transit system to connect isolated low-income neighborhoods to the city's urban center. Transit-oriented development was accompanied by municipal investment in neighborhood infrastructure. In this study, t...

Public transit systems are a critical component of major metropolitan areas. However, in the face of increasing demand, most of these systems are operating close to capacity. Under normal operating conditions, station crowding and boarding denial are becoming a major concern for transit agencies. As such, any disruption in service will have even more severe consequences, affecting huge number o...

To retain and attract new riders, transit agencies are frequently in search for ways to improve system reliability. Transit agencies typically operate several routes that partially or fully overlay (or overlap) one another in order to offer a better service coverage to reach various destinations. While previous research has focused on understanding the general factors that impact headway adhere...

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...

Problem, research strategy, and findings Millions of North Americans stopped riding public transit in response to COVID-19. We treat this crisis as a natural experiment illustrate the importance riders’ abilities access essential destinations. measured impacts riders forgoing through survey transportation barriers completed by more than 4,000 Toronto Vancouver (Canada). used Heckman selection m...

By reviewing the existing organizational and operation arrangements of public transit system in China, this paper firstly explored a pricing competition model between profit maximizing operators and consumer surplus maximizing operators on a single route. Under this mixed duopoly market, effects of two widely used polices (fare subsidy and nationalization) on equilibrium fare changes are invest...

Does exposure to mass migration affect the attitudes and economic behavior of natives in transit countries? In order answer this question, we use a unique locality-level panel from 2010 2016 rounds Life Transition Survey data on main land routes taken by migrants 18 European countries during refugee crisis 2015. To capture exogenous variation natives’ migration, construct an instrument that is ...