Special issue on public transport systems

摘要

The Journal of Advanced Transportation has been a leader in the area of public transport for over four decades. This special issue presents an outstanding series of novel papers on public and freight transport systems in the areas of demand estimation, planning, and operations to highlight recent advances. In the following, we paraphrase information from the abstracts of the papers.The first two papers deal with demand estimation issues. In "A method to estimate the historical US air travel demand," Tao Li, Hojong Baik, and Antonio A. Trani propose a route-based optimization model for estimation of the historical air travel demand in the USA. In the paper "Geographic information system - system dynamics procedure for bus rapid transit ridership estimation" by Luis David Galicia and Ruey Long Cheu, a two-step procedure for estimating the total daily ridership of a new bus rapid transit route is proposed. The two-step procedure has been validated with actual demographic and ridership data from two lines. The proposed procedure offers an approach that complements the ridership estimation methods currently accepted by the US Federal Transit Administration.