Although public transport passengers consider service reliability a key quality aspect, actual services are often not … perceived as reliable. To gain insights into how authorities deal with (improving) service reliability, an international survey … was performed, showing that very little attention is paid to service reliability during the design of the network and of …

This paper develops a formulation for ferry service network design with stochastic demand via the notion of service … reliability (SR). The problem is formulated as a two-phase stochastic program in which the schedule of regular and ad hoc services …

and recent service reliability, is used to justify whether or not to implement a partway deadheading operation. The …