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Public Transportation: Volume 1, Urban and Rural Bus Service

Overview

 

TRB’s Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No. 2539 consists of 10 papers that explore public transportation, including:

  • Modeling Fuel Consumption of Hybrid Electric Buses: Model Development and Comparison with Conventional Buses
  • Use of Real-Time Operational Tactics to Synchronize Transfers in Headway-Based Public Transport Service
  • Estimation of Short-Term Bus Travel Time by Using Low-Resolution Automated Vehicle Location Data
  • Application of Bus-Only Lanes in Downtown Washington, D.C.: Concurrent Versus Contraflow Bus Lanes
  • Determining Optimal Strategies for Single-Line Bus Operation by Means of Smartphone Demand Data
  • Optimization Model for Transit Signal Priority Under Conflicting Priority Requests
  • Identifying Factors That Increase Bus Accident Risk by Using Random Forests and Trip-Level Data
  • Test and Evaluation of Systems to Warn Pedestrians of Turning Buses
  • Integrated Analysis System for Rural National Transit Database
  • Understanding and Estimating In-Service Axle Weights of Transit Buses

Source Organization Location

Washington
,
DC

Operations Area of Practice

    Traffic Signal Timing
    Data Acquisition, Support and Hosting
    Regional environmental data sets and models

Organizational Capability Element

    Performance Management

Content Type

Informational Product

Role in Organization

Transportation Planner
Public
Senior Engineer
Researcher/Academic
Principal Engineer
Manager / First Line Supervisor
Director / Program Manager
Maintenance Staff
Technician
CEO / GM / Commissioner
Engineer
Operator
Senior Manager
Public Safety Officer
Transit Professional
Associate Engineer
Media / PIO
Emergency Manager

Publishing Organization

TRB
TOM Chapters
21.2
6.5
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