150-250 words) Efficient and reliable public transit systems provide opportunities to reduce congestion, emissions in urban areas and provide access and mobility to residents. Headway, or the time difference between departing or arriving vehicles, is a useful measure to gauge bus transit performance; because short headways can lead to bus bunching incidents that quickly degrade transit level of...

Current route planning algorithms for public transport networks are mostly based on timetable information only, i.e., they compute shortest routes under the assumption that all transit vehicles (e.g., buses, subway trains) will incur in no delays throughout their trips. Unfortunately, unavoidable and unexpected delays often prevent transit vehicles to respect their originally planned schedule. ...

abstract the eu neighborhood policy is a road map that will depict the perspective of european :union:’s relations with its neighbors. the membership of the neighbors in the :union: is impossible, because they are confronted with deep domestic and foreign problems, and on the other hand eu’s security, political and economic interests in these countries lead to offering of the eu neighborhood po...

Flying insects constantly face the challenge of choosing efficient, safe and collision-free routes while navigating through dense foliage. We examined the route-choice behavior of foraging honeybees when they encountered a barrier which could be traversed by flying through one of two apertures, positioned side by side. When the bees' choice behavior was averaged over the entire tested populatio...

In many public transport oriented cities in the world, especially Asian cities, the public transport system has been developed extensively, to the extent that it has become increasingly difficult to navigate. Although inter-modal transfers are common and often necessary, a complete set of the routes across transport modes is generally not presented in a form that is accessible to travelers, as ...

In this paper we present an optimization model for train scheduling. This model constitutes one of the three major components of a solution approach for solving the transit network design problem. The problem of scheduling can be defined in the following general terms. Given the origin destination matrix for the train trips for design period, the underlying train network characterized by the ov...

Global offshoring has increased the need for transport of half-finished goods and components, along with finished goods. The auto-parts industry in Korea has also entered the global market as Korean car manufacturers have started to build overseas factories. Maintaining cost competitiveness by minimising total logistics costs will thus be a critical strategy for the industry. This research comp...

Transit agencies have never had an accurate indicator of the extent of their service area based on riders’ door-to-door travel time. This is an important gap in knowledge, because travel time is one of the most important factors determining whether or not people will use public transit. This paper presents a powerful new travel timebased method to visualize and analyze transit service coverage—...

In this study, the Transit Network Design Problem (TNDP) is studied to determine set of routes and frequency on each route for public transportation systems. To ensure important concerns planners like length, configuration, demand satisfaction, attractiveness transit routes, TNDP solved generate a by proposing an initial generation (IRSG) procedure embedded into NSGA-II algorithm. The proposed ...