Over the past 10 years, operating expenses for demand responsive transit (DRT) have more than doubled as demand for this mandated service has expanded. The DRT systems that we studied consist of dial-a-ride programs that transit agencies use for point-to-point pick-up and delivery of the elderly...

Since the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1991 operating expenses for demand responsive transit have more than doubled as demand for this mandated service has expanded. Many advanced technologies and management practices have been proposed and implemented to improve the...

To route and schedule trains over a large complex network can be computationally intensive. One way to reduce complexity could be to "aggregate" suitable sections of a network. In this paper, we present a simulation-based technique to generate delay estimates over track segments as a function of...

This report describes a simulation model developed to evaluate the impact of using Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for bus tracking, on controlling buses in wide-area transit networks. Control strategies with ITS will be compared against those...

This paper evaluates dispatching rules at timed transfer transit terminals. The evaluation focuses on total passenger delay and the number of passengers missing their connections. Analytical and simulation models are developed to evaluate the benefit of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)...

Recently, bus transit service providers have begun to adopt Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Mobile Data Terminals. These systems taken together have the potential to reduce the cost of providing transportation services through...

In the multiprocessor open shop scheduling problem, jobs are to be processed on a set of processing centers—each having one or more parallel identical machines, while jobs do not have a pre-specified obligatory route. A special case is the proportionate multiprocessor open shop scheduling...