Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

1979 - 2026

Current editor(s): Fred Mannering

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Volume 213, issue C, 2026

Day-ahead Flight Retiming and Aircraft Rerouting Considering Airport Congestion

Xuting Sun, Yuan Zhang and Sai-Ho Chung

A maximal covering resilient model for improving rural-urban route diversity

Kai Qu, Anthony Chen and Xiangdong Xu

Robust ship-to-grid scheduling problem: A contextual joint estimation-prediction-optimization paradigm

Bo Lu, Zhuoxi Shi and Guowei Zhang

Fair sequential pricing for efficient operation of load-based buses alongside regular services

Jan-Dirk Schmöcker, Xinyi Shen, Wenzhe Sun and Achille Fonzone

Blockchain investment analysis for promoting rail–sea intermodal development: Should the rail carrier or the maritime carrier invest?

Miaohui Liu, Xu Xin, Xiaoli Wang and Changmin Jiang

Transformer-HAPPO: A convergent multi-agent reinforcement learning framework for large-scale single-track railway timetabling

Wenqing Li, Shaoquan Ni, Miaomiao Lv, Dingjun Chen, Shengdong Li, Feiyu Yang and Liqing Zhang

Optimizing demand exchange for two independent ADA paratransit operators considering probabilistic rider responses

Shijie Chen, Md Hishamur Rahman, Nikola Marković and Yanshuo Sun

Lyapunov-based stability analysis of continuous car-following models with stochasticity and delays

Weijie Yu, Ying Luo, Xuedong Hua, Wei Wang and Dong Ngoduy

Berth and yard space allocation at tidal ports with approach bridges

Huiyuan Pang, Lu Zhen, Shuaian Wang and Xiao Yang

Volume 212, issue C, 2026

Exact method for the rapid transit line design and slow network adjustments to maximize public transit share

Natividad González-Blanco, Antonio J. Lozano, Vladimir Marianov and Juan A. Mesa

Train platoon optimization for coordinating feeder and collector lines in urban rail networks

Simin Chai, Jiateng Yin, D’Ariano, Andrea, Jinlei Zhang, Tao Tang and Lixing Yang

Urban network percolation and traffic dynamics: Hysteresis, critical exponents, and resilience

Jorge A. Laval

Scalable spatiotemporal modeling for bicycle count prediction

Rishikesh Yadav, Alexandra M. Schmidt, Aurélie Labbe, Pratheepa Jeganathan and Luis F. Miranda-Moreno

An improved branch-and-Benders-cut algorithm for two-stage scenario-based robust winner determination problem

Ting Wang, Yuli Zhang, Ling Zhang, Xin Yang and Jianjun Wu

Commission vs. subscription: how labor contract affects the welfare of gig workers

Hao Wang, Tian-Liang Liu, Hai-Jun Huang and Nie, Yu (Marco)

Optimal evacuation control in large urban networks with stochastic demand

Alexander Hammerl, Wen-Long Jin, Ravi Seshadri, Thomas Kjær Rasmussen and Otto Anker Nielsen

Monotone three-dimensional surfaces and equivalent formulations of the generalized bathtub model

Wen-Long Jin and Irene Martinez

A branch-and-price-and-cut algorithm for discrete network design problems under traffic equilibrium

David Rey and Michael W. Levin

Is CAV participatory traffic control socially beneficial? Incentive mechanisms and policy design

Minghui Wu, Xi Lin, Yafeng Yin, Manzi Li and Jerome P. Lynch

Dynamic control protocol for connected commercial fleets

Qingnan Liang, Zhibin Chen and Renxin Zhong

Effective features for machine learning-enhanced aircraft recovery

Fan Xiao, Yuqing Liao, Chutian Chen and Zhe Liang

Volume 211, issue C, 2026

How do human factors affect the explanatory power of driver models? A methodology for comparative model assessment and validation

Vincenzo Punzo, Davide Iannelli, Andrea Saltelli and Marcello Montanino

Optimal temporal-spatial variable speed limit profiles for a heterogeneous freeway corridor: A real-time control and physical model-aided reinforcement learning solution method

Hanyi Yang, Lili Du and Guohui Zhang

Impacts of within-day decision-making within a stochastic process traffic assignment model

Takamasa Iryo, David Watling and Martin Hazelton

Spatial Markov equilibrium models for taxi services: driver decision, search friction, and locational pricing

Yanchao Liu

Is parking permit management effective for multi-modal transportation systems with carpooling and high-occupancy vehicle lane users?

Jing Wang and Hua Wang

An adjustable pricing scheme for public charging stations: Balancing drivers' range anxiety and operational efficiency

Dong Mo, Chuqiao Chen, Chen, Xiqun (Michael) and W.Y. Szeto

Can lane-changing preferences of connected and autonomous vehicles induce spontaneous platoon formation?

Hao Wang, Xuelin Ding and Ke Ma

1D and 2D trajectory optimization in weaving segments under a unified risk field framework: cooperative merging control strategy towards mixed traffic environment

Guodong Ma, Baofeng Sun, Wenyu Yang and Zhihong Yao

Unveiling traffic wave of linear adaptive cruise control: A second-order macroscopic traffic flow model

Zihao Li, Quyuan Lin, Fan Pu, Soyoung Ahn, Yunlong Zhang, Jiwan Jiang and Yang Zhou

Network-wide parking provision for autonomous vehicles: An integrated land use and transportation perspective

Heqing Tan, Xiangdong Xu and Anthony Chen

A branch-and-price approach for optimizing all-electric ship scheduling in waterborne transport

Xizi Qiao, Ying Yang, Qinghe Sun and Shuaian Wang

A stochastic jump-process driving dynamic model with application to traffic safety

Chen Qian, Jingbin Xu and Feng Guo

Cross-regional cooperative multiple-timescale joint traffic control, signal control, and routing for maximum network throughput

Shaohua Cui, Yongjie Xue, Kun Gao, Bin Yu and Xiaobo Qu

Dynamic syncrolift dock scheduling

Mengtong Wang, Shengnan Shu and Qiang Meng

Optimal measurement of traffic hysteresis under traffic oscillations: A binary integer programming approach

Fan Pu, Yang Zhou, Soyoung Ahn, Sixu Li, Wissam Kontar and Xiubin Wang

Physics-informed graph modeling for traffic shockwave analysis through optimized change-point detection

Tianya Zhang, Xiunan Wang, Pengyuan Sun, Maged Shoman, Benedetto Piccoli and Peter J. Jin

Queue replacement approach to dynamic user equilibrium assignment with route and departure time choice

Takara Sakai, Takashi Akamatsu and Koki Satsukawa

Contextual stochastic optimization for determining electric vehicle charging station locations with decision-dependent demand learning

Huangrong Sun, Xian Yu and Güzin Bayraksan

Drone pre-positioning for cardiac arrest response: A feature-driven distributionally robust chance constrained programming

Jie Chen, Ning Zhu, Hao Fu and William H.K. Lam

Come fly with me: Scheduling point-to-point transports with collective drones

Stefan Schwerdfeger, Nils Boysen and Dirk Briskorn

A generalizable hierarchical Bayesian framework for estimating network-level transit OD from heterogeneous data sources

Javad Esmailpour, Saeid Saidi and Neema Nassir

Passenger pickup and drop-off facilities: Throughput capacity evaluation

Anton J. Kleywegt and Xinyu Liu

Train timetabling with rolling stock assignment, short-turning and skip-stop strategy for a bidirectional metro line

Chanchal Kumar Salode and Prasanna Ramamoorthy

Robust skyport location and network design for UAM systems under aircraft failures: A column-and-constraint generation approach

Gwang Kim, Yoonjea Jeong and Youngchul Shin

Mitigating network traffic congestion via link- and path-based incentives

Ramin Niroumand, Shaghayegh Vosough, Fahim Kafashan, Claudio Roncoli, Marco Rinaldi and Richard D. Connors

A branch-and-price algorithm for multi-day rolling stock circulation planning under enhanced operational conditions in Chinese high-speed railway network

Xinyu Bao, Qi Zhang, Entai Wang, Dewei Li and Yaling Xiao

Integrated optimization for truck arrival management and yard capacity utilization in a container terminal

Haowen Lei and Shuai Jia

The increasing gap dynamics in a general spatial matching model

Andres Fielbaum, Roberto Cominetti and Jose Correa

Data-Driven Predict-then-Optimize framework for landing scheduling with hybrid descent modes

Xinyi Li, Xiao Chu, Lingxiao Wu, Suwan Yin and Xin Yang

The impact of energy estimation inaccuracy on the optimality of electric vehicle routing decisions

Ramin Raeesi and Gilbert Laporte

Optimizing priority-based strategy in ride-sourcing markets: A quality-quantity tradeoff

Xiaolan Jiang, Li-jun Tian, Hai Yang, Peng Liu and Wen-Xiang Wu

Redesigning urban intermodal transit for passenger and freight co-modal mobility: Metro line planning with integrated truck routing

Yahan Lu, Yuwen Peng, Dongyang Xia, Patrick Stokkink and Shadi Sharif Azadeh

Distributionally robust vehicle routing with crowdshipping and time windows

Bingjie Zhou, Yu Zhang, Roberto Baldacci and Jiafu Tang

Dynamics of traffic oscillations in stochastic linear car-following models considering reaction delay: Analytical investigation and numerical analysis

Marouane Bouadi, Rui Jiang, Bin Jia, Kai Yuan and Shiteng Zheng

A bilevel model and a column generation heuristic for the transit network design and frequency setting problem with capacity constraints

Daniel O. Martínez-Quezada, Cristián E. Cortés, Michel Gendreau and Antonio Mauttone

A stochastic queueing model for travel time reliability with spatial density heterogeneity

Yang Gao and David Levinson