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Student Theses

Each thesis is the result of two or more years dedicated to pushing the boundaries of public transit design, operations and management. Below are the dozens of groundbreaking theses that students from the MIT Transit Lab have produced in recent decades.

Rail Transit in Seattle: Strategy for Success

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Robert Fellows

MPA

1989

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An Analysis of Service Reliability and Dispatching Practices on the MBTA's Route 1 Bus

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William Craven

MST

1989

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Extraboard Personnel Scheduling in the Transit Industry

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Isam A. Kaysi

MST

1988

Workforce Planning on the MBTA Rapid Transit Lines

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Mark D. Hickman

MST

1988

Integrated Optimal Design of Feeder and Express Bus Services

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Shi-Tsung Chan

MST

1988

Workforce Planning Applications at the MBTA

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Mark D. Hickman

BS

1987

Parking Pricing Policy: Options for MIT

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Eduardo C. Pereira

MST

1986

A Methodology for Transit Operator Workforce Planning

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Haris Koutsopoulos

MST/PhD

1986

The Use of Routinely Collected Data to Improve Transit Service Reliability

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Scott Smith

MST

1986

Bus Route Performance Evaluation Under Stochastic Considerations

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Philippe Marguier

PhD

1985

Operations of Five-Car Trains on the MBTA Red Line

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Robert W. Antonisse

MST

1985

Solving Large-Scale Dial-A-Ride Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems

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Jang-Jei Jaw

PhD

1984

Computer-aided Decision Making : Service Allocation by Transit Planners

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Marek Banasiak

MST

1984

Improving Public Transportation: What Role for Employee Participation and "Quality of Work Life" Strategies?

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Anne Bickford

MST

1983

The Potential of Performance-Based Allocation of Operating Assistance For Transit

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Annette L. Demchur

MST

1983

A Deficit Function Approach to Bus Scheduling at the Southern California Rapid Transit District

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Crystal W. Penn

BSCE

1983

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Temporal and Spatial Allocation of Buses on a Transit Network with Time Varying Characteristics

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Haris Koutsopoulos

MST

1983

An Improved Model System For Interregional Transportation Planning in Switzerland

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Mario Keller

MST

1983

Planning Methods for Checkpoint DRT

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Eric F. Peyrard

MST

1982

Contract Management and Service Contracting in Public Transit

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Louisa Ho

MST

1982

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