Public Transportation

Public Transportation Systems: Principles of System Design, Operations Planning and Real-Time Control

Daganzo, Carlos F.
Ouyang, Yanfeng
2019

This unique book explains how to think systematically about public transportation through the lens of physics models. The book includes aspects of system design, resource management, operations and control. It presents both, basic theories that reveal fundamental issues, and practical recipes that can be readily used for real-world applications. The principles conveyed in this book cover not only traditional transit modes such as subways, buses and taxis but also the newer mobility services that are being enabled by advances in telematics and robotics.

Effect of Transit Signal Priority on Bus Service Reliability

Anderson, Paul
Daganzo, Carlos F.
2019

As every user knows buses tend to bunch. To alleviate this problem, transit agencies introduce slack into their schedules and then hold buses back to schedule at pre-established control points along their routes. Unfortunately, this practice retards buses and only works with low frequency systems; i.e., when the headways are long. For higher frequency systems, which effectively operate without a schedule, headway-based control strategies show promise but unfortunately, they also retard buses. To alleviate bus retardation in all its forms, transit signal priority (TSP) is commonly used....

Effect of Transit Signal Priority on Bus Service Reliability

Anderson, Paul
Daganzo, Carlos F.
2020

As every user knows buses tend to bunch. To alleviate this problem, transit agencies introduce slack into their schedules and then hold buses back to schedule at pre-established control points along their routes. Unfortunately, this practice retards buses and only works with low frequency systems; i.e., when the headways are long. For higher frequency systems, which effectively operate without a schedule, headway-based control strategies show promise but unfortunately, they also retard buses. To alleviate bus retardation in all its forms, transit signal priority (TSP) is commonly used....

Effect of Transit Signal Priority on Bus Service Reliability

Anderson, Paul
Daganzo, Carlos F.
2020

As every user knows buses tend to bunch. To alleviate this problem, transit agencies introduce slack into their schedules and then hold buses back to schedule at pre-established control points along their routes. Unfortunately, this practice retards buses and only works with low frequency systems; i.e., when the headways are long. For higher frequency systems, which effectively operate without a schedule, headway-based control strategies show promise but unfortunately, they also retard buses. To alleviate bus retardation in all its forms, transit signal priority (TSP) is commonly used....

Planning Bus Systems for Mega-Cities: A Case Study for Beijing

Liu, Xuejie
Zhu, Jiazheng
Ma, Tengteng
Ouyang, Yanfeng
Daganzo, Carlos F.
2021

This paper presents and tests a method to design hierarchical bus networks for large-scale polycentric urban areas. The method produces conceptual plans based on geometric idealizations of regional networks intended to serve medium-distance trips, and then adapts such conceptual plans into implementable designs. Also considered are a supportive backbone system for long distance trips and a last-mile system for local trips. The focus is the medium distance system since this system is not well understood for megacities. Mathematical optimization is used to develop the regional plans....

BART Meltdowns, Fare Hikes, Budget Cuts and Other Bay Area Transit Woes

May 27, 2025

KQED Forum NewspageITS affiliate, Ted Lamm, associate director for the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, UC Berkeley Law School and UC ITS Board of Advisors member and ITS Berkeley alum Laura Tolkoff, transportation policy director, SPUR talk about BART...

Spring 2025: Master of City Planning Symposium

May 20, 2025
Master of City Planning Symposium | Capstone Projects

Lawmakers reluctantly float sales tax as public transit boon

May 8, 2025

San Francisco Examiner - Egon TerplanEgon Terplan, ITS Senior Fellow addresses Lawmakers reluctantly float sales tax as public transit boon with the San Francisco Examiner:...

Buses vs. Trains: The Future of Public Transit in the Great Lakes Region

May 13, 2025

Great Lakes Now news siteITS Director Daniel A. Rodríguez, Chancellor's Professor of City and Regional Planning, talks about Buses vs. Trains: The Future of Public Transit in the Great Lakes Region to Great Lakes Now - Detroit PBS:...

Development of Bus Rapid Transit Performance Assessment Guide Tool

Miller, Mark
Golub, Aaron
2010

This report describes the development process of the Bus Rapid Transit Performance AssessmentGuidebook (BRT PAG) Tool, which provides a decision support means for tool users to understand at a high level the benefits and costs associated with implementing bus rapid transit systems. The BRTPAG Tool is based on a conceptual framework consisting of BRT system strategies; stakeholder groupings; impacts of individual BRT system strategies; measurement methods used to analyze the impacts that BRT system strategies have on different stakeholders; and quantitative estimates of benefits and costs...