A project workshop was held on Monday, July 4, 2016 at the Technion. The title of the workshop was Innovations in operations and planning of public transportation. The following presentations were given:
- Challenges in the Ministry of Transport’s R&D program, Zeev Shadmi, Chief Scientist Unit, Israel Ministry of Transport
- Planning and operations for improved public transport network robustness, Oded Cats, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands
- Real-time control for transit systems with transfers, Hend Manasra, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- SMART-PT: Towards a Smart Adaptive Public Transport, Andrey Shabalov, Tel Aviv University, Israel
- Real-time public transport crowding information provision: Results from a Stockholm metro pilot study, Erik Jenelius, KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Metronit service reliability, Robert Ishaq, Technion
- Urban bus network of priority lanes: a Combined multi-objective, multi-criteria and group decision-making approach, Yuval Hadas, Bar Ilan university, Ramat-Gan, Israel
- Safety impacts of pedestrian crossing configurations and other features of signalized junctions on public transport routes, Victoria Gitelman, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel