Public transportation has experienced rapid changes in ridership over the past several years, driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. Numerous studies have focused on how health concerns and social distancing/lockdown measures during the pandemic resulted in the immediate decline in public transportation usage. For instance, in many cities within the US, transit ridership declined to a […]
The world has seen a surge in extreme weather events and increased challenges of disaster response. One overlooked factor complicating the distribution of relief supplies is the immediate decisions survivors make when seeking aid, which impacts the realized demand at various points of distribution (PODs) of relief supplies. This project aims to understand these critical
TSP seeks to optimize the interaction between busses and the infrastructure, creating a minimum resistance path for transit buses through signalized intersections. TSP may improve travel time reliability (TTR), schedule adherence, and ultimately the quality of service and ridership for transit systems. Bhat and Sardesai explicitly includes of TTR in mode choice, demonstrating the significance
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The main objectives of this project are: (1) development and validation of detection methods on the presence and width of individual elements of complete streets at street level, (2) development of a numeric index and typology to rate the completeness of streets, (3) curation of a publicly accessible database of various elements of complete street
