This study focuses on developing and evaluating predictive models for bus travel times adaptable to any transit network, or to new roadway segments without prior travel time data. Most prior work relies on non-standardized features such as road traffic forecasts or closed-source datasets to test...

The presentation slides in this document provide an overview of our study, How Twitter Pushed Stakeholders Under The Bus, which is forthcoming in the Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance. This study focuses on the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. Our analysis indicates that when...

Alcohol has been described as “America’s fiber” due to its immense history. With the alcohol industry booming, the need for beverage law attorneys will rise as well. And some law schools have made developments to facilitate this need. For instance, classes on “wine law” have been...

In the past decade, the gap in the quality of public transit (bus) service between Arab and Jewish localities has narrowed, but this trend was not uniform. The quality of bus service in large Arab localities (more than 20,000 residents), which contain about half of the total population of Arab...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a significant worldwide decrease in the number of passengers using bus transport in recent years. This phenomenon was caused by travelers’ fears of this disease, and at the same time, people started working from home. The aim of the paper is to analyze the...

Transportation consumes approximately 29% of the world's energy and is responsible for approximately 25% of CO2 emissions worldwide. In Cuenca, Ecuador, fossil fuels for transportation represent 59.9% of total energy consumption. Ecuadorian legislation has specified gradually replacing...

This paper investigates the impact of the largest rail strikes in German history on intercity buses - a then newly liberalised market. Using unique booking data of bus services, we exploit variation in rail service cancellations across routes to show that the disruption in rail transport...

This paper investigates the impact of the largest rail strikes in German history on intercity buses – a then newly liberalised market. Using unique booking data of bus services, we exploit variation in rail service cancellations across routes to show that the disruption in rail transport...

This paper focusses on the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk. Our analysis indicates that when negotiating the sale of their company to Musk, Twitter’s leaders chose to disregard the interests of the company’s stakeholders and to focus exclusively on the interests of shareholders and the...

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems have existed for more than 50 years, but they are still uncommon and unfamiliar. This review article synthesizes the findings of 42 papers which have discussed reasons for the slow adoption of BRT. Eleven causes were identified and the causes are usually different...

The bus industry receives much less attention from politicians and economists than the rail industry, even though the former is important in most areas of the country. In this important historical and economic analysis, John Hibbs shows how the bus industry gradually had its commercial freedom...

This paper investigates the impact of the largest rail strikes in German history on intercity buses – a then newly liberalised market. Using unique booking data of bus services, we exploit variation in rail service cancellations across routes to show that the disruption in rail transport...

This paper introduces a type of circular causation called Congestive Mode-Switching (CMS) that may arise when an increase in congestion penalizes transit relative to driving. If demand is also elastic, rising congestion persuades some transit riders to drive, which exacerbates congestion...

The customized bus (CB) is a user-oriented, environment-friendly travel mode that provides flexible, demand-responsive service. During the eruption of COVID-19, more and more people have cut back on conventional public transport, which is crowded with people in narrow and enclosed spaces. While...

Today transport is the good performing sector hence road transport in India is operated by public sector and predominately by private sector. In general, compared with the other modes of transport bus transport and its services are more indispensable, convenient and very easy to access. The...

Today transport is the good performing sector hence road transport in India is operated by public sector and predominately by private sector. In general, compared with the other modes of transport bus transport and its services are more indispensable, convenient and very easy to access. The...

The objective of this study was to investigate factors determining the consumers' intention to adopt the Rea Vaya; a smart transport system in an emerging market setting of Johannesburg, South Africa. The study followed a quantitative research design which entailed the collection of data from 250...

We measure the impact of Mexico City's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system on air quality. Through a difference-in-differences strategy with staggered adoption of treatment, we show that the BRT is associated with important reductions in the concentrations of pollutants related to nitrogen oxides....

To solve the social dilemma between buses and social vehicles in mandatory lane changing for bus exiting, the evolutionary game models are formulated to analyze the interactions between them. Considering the uncertainties for human-driven and connected autonomous buses around bus bays, the...

In this paper, we study the commuting behavior of citizens living in or near a city who must decide how to get to work. Such citizens can always use their own car and drive to work. However, they can also take public transport to work. The two public transport options we consider involve taking...

Bus bunching is regarded as a detrimental phenomenon in bus systems. We study a bus loop with two bus stops, one regular and one spike bus stop, where bunched buses can outperform staggered buses. The spike bus stop models a bus stop connected to a train or metro service, where passengers arrive...

The transportation sector decarbonization, contributing to climate change mitigation, drives the accelerated deployment of electric buses in cities. However, higher upfront costs, charging infrastructure deployment and operational issues are the main obstacles to their massive adoption. This...