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This paper provides an analytical approach for the problem of reducing the time spent by buses at signalized intersections, waiting for green phase, by suitably increasing the dwell time at bus stops. It is well known that the main motivation to tackle with this problem lies on the expected advantages in terms of reduction in the number of...

Coloured Petri Nets can be a valuable and powerful tool to design, analyse, and control the subsystems composing the Physical Internet, as they are able to capture the precedence relations and interactions among events which characterize the facilities and infrastructures (multimodal logistics centres and hubs, transit centres, roads and...

In the last decades, researchers, policy makers and, in general, the whole society, have devoted a growing attention to the environmental impact of traffic on air quality. In this framework, the electrification of Transit Systems (TS) can play a key factor in improving cities sustainability since it combines the good characteristics of...

Rapid urbanization along with the population growth increases the pressure on existing transportation systems which boosts the needs for the provision of a well-connected and efficient Public Transport Systems (PTSs) to meet the mobility needs of the people. In this framework, it is important for the PTSs of a region to perform at certain...

The first two steps of performance analysis and design of transport systems usually consist of identifying the best spatial discretization of the considered study area, namely zoning, and of the relevant Origin-Destination (OD) matrix. In this framework, zones are generally delimited by physical obstacles such as rivers, transport...

Pedestrian flow management and control inside stations are becoming key topics in order to avoid congestion phenomena and to guarantee the required social distancing during the pandemic emergency. In this context, this paper is aimed at developing simulation-based optimization and control strategies able to take into account space...

In the last decades, the rise of automation and communication technologies in railway sector has boosted more and more opportunities to design new and innovative solutions to improve the trip experience of people. Among them there is the so-called virtual coupling, a promising framework where trains, automated and connected, can split and merge...

This paper proposes a model for designing a passenger railway service in the framework of a virtual coupling scenario, where automated trains can be grouped to form a convoy. In particular the proposed model considers automated carriages that can virtually split and merge together to form a train with a time-varying composition and capacity....

Sustainability is nowadays an overarching concept for transport policy and planning around the world. Focusing on urban areas, the problem of congestion, combined with the need to reduce emissions into the atmosphere and increase road safety, has led national and European administrations to develop initiatives to support the so-called "soft...

One of the main benefits of the railways digital transformation is the possibility of increasing the efficiency of the Asset Management process through the combination of data-driven models and decision support systems, paving the road towards an Intelligent Asset Management System (IAMS). The paper describes the whole IAMS decisional process...