The growing penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in urban areas raises multiple reliability issues. The topology reconstruction is a critical step to ensure the robustness of distribution grid operation. However, the bus connectivity and network topology reconstruction are hard in distribution grids. The reasons are that 1) the branches are challenging and expensive to monitor due...

Deploying exclusive bus lanes is considered an important strategy for supporting public transit priority policy. This paper uses a simulation approach to evaluate planned exclusive bus lanes on expressways in Beijing, China. Two scenarios for deploying exclusive bus lanes—a curbside bus lane scenario and a median bus lane scenario—were designed. Then, a micro-simulation network platform using V...

This paper shows that the deployment of an opportunistic network on any public transportation system leads to obtain a scalable and efficient urban communication platform. We use the term Bus Switched Networks (BSNs) to indicate this urban backbone that complements the services of 3G networks and enables to meet the application level requirements for a large class of applications by ensuring hi...

Bus dispatching has been studied, and also the bus dispatching model is set up. Then, Genetic Algorithm is adaptively improved in order to avoid premature problem and the slow convergence, and then the keeping optimal strategy is used to the Genetic Algorithm, so formed the Improved Adaptive Genetic Algorithm,namely IAGA. Finally, the IAGA is used to optimizing the bus dispatching model, and th...

The paper discusses a method for modeling the operation of an urban transportation system. The proposed model models the bus operation in an urban transportation system with an equation system. The objective of the proposed model is to simulate the operation of an urban transport network. The network consists of a set of lines, a number of vehicles (buses) circulate on each line, where we consi...

We describe a multicomponent intervention to improve bus-riding behavior of students attending an urban public school. The intervention was developed with technical assistance consultation that emphasized collaboration among students, school personnel, and bus drivers. The primary intervention procedures were identifying appropriate behaviors during transportation ("bus rules"), training bus dr...