Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

1979 - 2026

Current editor(s): Fred Mannering

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Volume 209, issue C, 2026

Late-night and early-morning train scheduling with non-traffic hour maintenance window in urban rail transit systems

Yaochen Ma, Hai Yang and Hai Wang

A three-sided network equilibrium model for on-demand food delivery services

Kaihang Zhang, Jintao Ke and Xiaolei Wang

Optimizing electric carsharing system operations and battery management: Integrating V2G, B2G and battery swapping strategies

Shuang Yang, Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia, Jianjun Wu and Huijun Sun

Large-scale inverse learning of user equilibrium via multiconvex optimization

Zhichen Liu, Yafeng Yin, Xi Lin and Zihao Wang

Graph neural networks for residential location choice: Connection to classical logit models

Zhanhong Cheng, Lingqian Hu, Yuheng Bu, Yuqi Zhou and Shenhao Wang

A general algorithm for traffic assignment problems with continuously distributed user attributes

Qianni Wang, Hui Li, Jun Xie, Nie, Yu (Marco) and Jiayang Li

Capturing behavioral heterogeneity for traffic flow: A scalable and personalized decomposition approach

Wissam Kontar, Yongju Kim, Xinzhi Zhong and Soyoung Ahn

Optimizing alternative-fuel tugboat fleet towards decarbonization goals

Jing Wang, Yibai Zhang, Shuai Jia and Hai Yang

Joint fleet scheduling and cargo flow allocation for air cargo services

Ling Zhu, Simon Belieres, Mike Hewitt and Lingxiao Wu

A learning-based MPC framework for gridlock-aware over-saturated network traffic control

Junyu Zhu, Juanwu Lu, Chunhui Yu, Zicheng Su, Wanjing Ma and Zhihua Zhong

Robust Electric Vehicle Charging Station Planning Factoring Traffic Congestion Dynamics Adapting to Steady and Surging Charging Demand Increase

Lili Du, Yuqiang Ning, Jiahua Qiu and Feiyang Kang

Behaviorally informed joint optimization of charger placement and dynamic spatio-temporal pricing for electric vehicle networks

Iason Liagkas, Shiyue Zhao and Neda Masoud

Highway toll allocation problem revisited: New methods and characterizations

Paula Soto-Rodríguez, Balbina Casas-Méndez and Alejandro Saavedra-Nieves

Truck vs high-speed rail express delivery: The social welfare and environmental implications

Yan Liu, Xiangru Wu, Wenyi Xia, Kun Wang, Yibin Xiao and Xiaowen Fu

Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition and valid inequalities for the vehicle routing problem with time windows and operation synchronization

Naiyu Wang and Canrong Zhang

How to deploy battery swapping stations for electric vehicles

Zifan Li, Zhiyuan Yang, Shuaian Wang and Lu Zhen

Stochastic optimization of electric microtransit scheduling with platooning

Yida Ding, Kai Wang, Wei Zhang and Xiaobo Qu

Volume 208, issue C, 2026

Unveiling traffic capacity in the mixed HV and CAV environment: A theoretical approach with CAV clustering intensity

Tongfei Li, Hongfei Zhu, Min Xu and Huijun Sun

Rapid transit network design via convex optimization: The role of sparsity and entropy-based regularizers

Fernando Real-Rojas, Victor M. Tenorio, Luis Cadarso and Antonio G. Marques

Real-time order dispatch for on-demand food-delivery platforms with a mixed fleet of drones and couriers

Tingting Dong, Yitong Shang, Zhijie Lai and Sen Li

Volume 207, issue C, 2026

The network level airport slot allocation problem: A new formulation and matheuristic solution approach

David Melder, Sha Wang, M. Hasan Mansoor, John H. Drake and Edmund K. Burke

Coordinating transfers between bus and metro train in real time: A logic-based branch-and-bound method

Yin Yuan, Shukai Li, Ronghui Liu, Lixing Yang and Ziyou Gao

Airport pricing strategies for ride-hailing services: A game-theoretic analysis

Jianxiu Xiao, Changmin Jiang, Hangjun Yang and Xiaoqian Sun

Integrated bus bridging service design and vehicle scheduling considering passenger flow control strategy in an oversaturated metro network: A Lagrangian heuristic based on column generation

Jiawei Geng, Chuntian Zhang, Lixing Yang, Yuan Gao and Ziyou Gao

Macro-Micro Synergistic Safety Coordination for Mixed-autonomy Traffic: A Trust and Risk-aware Multi-agent Framework

Haitao Li, Yongneng Xu, Tao Peng, Qinyuan Fan, Ningguo Qiao and Ying Zhang

Joint optimization of seat allocation and pricing with multi-ride season tickets in high-speed railway services

Runfa Wu, Wei Liu and Yuzhen Feng

Volume 206, issue C, 2026

Sequential truck platoon formation in mixed traffic: Complex spring mass damper system design, protocol network development, and mathematical analysis

Mukundhan Narasimhan, Lili Du, Scott Washburn and Pavle Bujanovic

A simulation heuristic for traveler- and vehicle-discrete dynamic traffic assignment

Gunnar Flötteröd

Hybrid optimal control of cooperative vehicle trajectories and traffic signals at intersections: A Benders decomposition-based algorithm

Meiqi Liu, Xinwei Wang and Meng Wang

Drone routing problem for shore-to-ship delivery services considering non-linear energy consumption

Mengtong Wang, Shukai Chen and Qiang Meng

A smart predict-then-optimize framework for vehicle rebalancing problem

Yuhang Guo, Zicheng Su, Hai Yang, Enming Liang, Chen Zhong and Wanjing Ma

Dynamic capacity allocation of hybrid transportation units for cargo-hitching in urban public transportation systems

Paul Bischoff, Benedikt Lienkamp, Tarun Rambha and Maximilian Schiffer

Network-wide adaptive signal control with partial connectivity: A stochastic optimization model for uncertain vehicle locations

Shaocheng Jia, S.C. Wong and Wai Wong

Airport regulation, terminal congestion, and capacity expansion

Wen-Jing Liu, Zhi-Chun Li, Xiaowen Fu and Kun Wang

Estimating the societal value of airport slots

Nicole Adler, Gianmarco Andreana and Gerben De Jong

Spatiotemporal pricing of curb space for improving operator and user utilities

Jisoon Lim and Neda Masoud

How to promote sustainable aviation fuel: Is flexibility beneficial to quota policies?

Rong Hu, Bokun Zhao, Ruotian Chen, Changmin Jiang and Yi-bin Xiao

Service network design of modular vehicles on general road networks considering passengers’ turning choices

Jiahui Yu, Xiaolei Wang, Lei Guo, Zhibin Chen and Zhe Liang

Understanding congestion in airport surface operations using 3D fundamental diagrams

Kailin Chen, Anupriya,, Prateek Bansal, Richard J. Anderson, Nicholas S. Findlay and Daniel J. Graham

A branch-and-price algorithm for integrated optimization on vehicle and crew scheduling of electric bus system

Yaoyao Wang, Jian Gang Jin, Omar J. Ibarra-Rojas, Min Xu and Zhichao Cao

Optimal demand-responsive connector design: Comparing fully-flexible routing and semi-flexible routing strategies

Li Zhen and Weihua Gu

Volume 205, issue C, 2026

The fragile nature of road transportation networks

Linghang Sun, Yifan Zhang, Cristian Axenie, Margherita Grossi, Anastasios Kouvelas and Michail A. Makridis

Harnessing household travel survey with smart card data to generate spatiotemporally-diverse activity schedules for transit users

Khoa D. Vo, Eui-Jin Kim, Huichang Lee and Prateek Bansal

Competitive ride-hailing markets with double-sided heterogeneity: Impacts of customers’ service valuation and drivers’ reservation earnings

Yaqian Zhou, Xinwei Li and Hai Yang

Benchmarking intra-driver heterogeneity car-following models using a behavioural and numerical evaluation framework

Mohammad Tamim Kashifi, Anshuman Sharma, Yasir Ali and He Haitao

Scheduling trucks in a time-space network of open-pit mines

Linying Yang, Jingwen Wu, Shuaian Wang and Lu Zhen

Optimizing for green skies: How do herd effects and customer heterogeneity impact airline optimal pricing and reputation investment?

Jinshu Cai, Yanyan Ding and Sisi Jian

Real-time bus control of urban transit networks with overtaking and passenger transfers: A decomposition solution method combined with spatial branch-and-bound

Yin Yuan, Shukai Li, Maximiliano Cubillos and Maurizio Bruglieri

Extreme-scale EV charging infrastructure planning for last-mile delivery using high-performance parallel computing

Waquar Kaleem, Taner Cokyasar, Jeffrey Larson, Omer Verbas, Tanveer Hossain Bhuiyan and Anirudh Subramanyam

Distributed adaptive signal control optimization and stability analysis based on nonlinear small-gain theorem

Zhun Yin, Tong Liu, Guohui Zhang, Hong Wang and Zhong-Ping Jiang

Capturing stochastic variabilities in pedestrian flows: A dynamic continuum modeling approach

Zepeng Liu, Haoyang Liang, S.C. Wong, Chi-Wang Shu and Mengping Zhang

Reliability premium: A generic conceptual framework for evaluating the cost of travel time variability

Zhaoqi Zang, Richard Batley, David Z.W. Wang and Hong K. Lo

Dynamic deployment of pooled human-robot resources in urban parcel logistics

Yujia Xu, Walid Klibi and Benoit Montreuil