Journal Papers

Please note that the final version of each paper is available directly from the publisher using the link to the final manuscript below.

  1. Davis & Brakewood (2025). Dialysis, Doctors, and Other Destinations in Rural Tennessee: A Comparative Analysis of Demand Response Transportation Trips by Age, Gender, and Disability Status. Transportation Research Record. (Link to Article).
  2. Rewalt, Brakewood & Cherry (2025). An analysis of pedestrian safety at bus stops using FARS data, Journal of Safety Research, Volume 95, Pages 147-159. (Link to Article).
  3. Jahan, Brakewood,  Pike,  & Watkins (2025). Mind the Gender Gap: Case Studies of U.S. Transit Agency Policies and Design Guidelines for Gender-Inclusive Transit Planning. Transportation Research Record. (Link to Article).
  4. Aravind, Venthuruthiyil, Mishra, Brakewood (2025). Simulation based pre-implementation cost evaluation framework for integrated public transit services, Transport Policy. (Link to Article).
  5. Wen, Cherry, Bassett,  Thorsen, Zhang, Weinhandl, Brakewood (2025). Physical activity and muscle activity of riding electric scooters, Journal of Transport & Health, Volume 40. (Link to Article).
  6. Liu, Guo, Gu, King, Han, Brakewood (2025). Analyzing transit systems using General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) by generating spatiotemporal transit networks. Information. Volume 16(1). 22 pages. (Link to Article).
  7. Guo, Mishra, Brakewood (2024). Analyzing gender and age differences in travel patterns and accessibility for demand response transit in small urban areas: A case study of Tennessee, Journal of Transport and Land Use. (Link to Open Access Article).
  8. Hightower, Ziedan, Guo, Zhu, Brakewood (2024). A comparison of time series methods for post-COVID transit ridership forecasting, Journal of Public Transportation, Volume 26. (Link to Open Access Article).
  9. Erhardt, Goyal, Kressner, Berrebi, Brakewood, and Watkins (2024). Simulating the effect of strategies to increase transit ridership by reallocating bus service: Two case studies. Journal of Public Transportation, Volume 26. (Link to Open Access Article).
  10. Guo and Brakewood (2023). Analysis of spatiotemporal transit accessibility and transit inequity of essential services in low-density cities, a case study of Nashville, TN. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. (Link to Open Access Article).
  11. Ziedan, Lima and Brakewood (2023). The app or the cap? Which fare innovation affects bus ridership? (2023). Transport Policy. (Link to article).
  12. Shah, Ziedan, Brakewood and Cherry (2023).  Shared e-scooter service providers with large fleet size have a competitive advantage: Findings from e-scooter demand and supply analysis of Nashville, Tennessee. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. (Link to article).
  13. Liu, Hoseinzadeh, Gu,  Han, Brakewood, and Zhang (2023). Evaluating the Coverage and Spatiotemporal Accuracy of Crowdsourced Reports Over Time: A Case Study of Waze Event Reports in Tennessee. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. (Link to article).
  14. Guo, Brakewood, Hightower and Cherry (2023). Evaluating Equity: A Method for Analyzing the Transit Accessibility of Affordable Housing Units. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Volume 2678, Issue 3. (Link to article).
  15. Nastasi, Brakewood,  Hunter, and Watkins (2023). Transit Agency Assessment of Their Capability to Adopt New Mobility Strategies. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. (Link to article).
  16. Ziedan, Brakewood and Watkins (2023). Will transit recover? A retrospective study of nationwide ridership in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Public Transportation. (Link to article).
  17. Ziedan, Lima and Brakewood (2023). A Multiple Mediation Analysis to Untangle the Impacts of COVID-19 on Nationwide Bus Ridership in the United States. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. (Link to article).
  18. Crossland, Brakewood, Guo and Cherry (2023). Proposed Typology for Ridesourcing Using Survey Data from Tennessee. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Volume 2677, Issue 10.  (Download preprint paper;  Link to article)
  19. Golub, Brown, Brakewood, MacArthur, Lee, and Ziedan (2022). Equity and exclusion issues in cashless fare payment systems for public transportation. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 15. (Link to Open Access Article).
  20. Erhardt, Hoque, Goyal, Berrebi, Brakewood and Watkins (2022). Why has public transit ridership declined in the United States? Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. Volume 161, Pages 68-87. (Link to Open Access Article).
  21. Hightower,  Ziedan, Crossland, and Brakewood (2022). Current Practices and Potential Rider Benefits of Fare Capping Policies in the U.S.A. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. (Link to Open Access Article).
  22. Berrebi, Lind, Brakewood, Erhardt and Watkins (2022). Investigating the Ridership Impact of New Light-Rail Transit and Arterial Bus Rapid Transit Lines in the Twin Cities. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. (Link to article).
  23. Rezaei, Khojandi, Haque, Brakewood, Jin and Cherry (2022). Park-and-ride facility location optimization: A case study for Nashville, Tennessee. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Volume 13. (Link to article).
  24. Ziedan, Shah, Wen, Brakewood, Cherry, and Cole (2021). Complement or compete? The effects of shared electric scooters on bus ridership, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 101. (Link to article).
  25. Haque, Brakewood, Rezaei and Khojandi (2021). A literature review on park-and-rides. The Journal of Transport and Land Use. Vol. 14 No. 1. pp.1039-1060. (Link to article).
  26. Ziedan, Darling, Brakewood, Erhardt, and Watkins (2021). The impacts of shared e-scooters on bus ridership. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice.  Volume 153. pp. 20-34. (Link to article).
  27. Rezaei, Khojandi, Haque, Brakewood, Jin and Cherry (2021). Performance evaluation of mode choice models under balanced and imbalanced data assumptions.  Transportation Letters. DOI: 10.1080/19427867.2021.1955567. (Link to Article).
  28. Darling, Carpenter, Johnson-Praino, Brakewood, and Voulgaris (2021). Comparison of Reduced-Fare Programs for Low-Income Transit Rider. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (Link to Open Access Article).
  29. Ziedan, Crossland, Brakewood, Pugliese, and Ooi (2021). Investigating the Preferences of Local Residents toward a Proposed Bus Network Redesign in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (Link to Open Access Article).
  30. Liu, Zhang, Han and Brakewood (2021). Automatic Traffic Queue-End Identification using Location-Based Waze User Reports. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board (Link to Article).
  31. Hoseinsadeh, Gu, Han, Brakewood and Freeze (2021). Estimating Freeway Level-of-Service Using Crowdsourced Data, Informatics, 8(1), 17 (Link to Open Access Article).
  32. Hoseinzadeh, Liu, Han, Brakewood, Mohammadnazar (2020). Quality of location-based crowdsourced speed data on surface streets: A case study of Waze and Bluetooth speed data in Sevierville, TN. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Volume 83. (Link to Final Manuscript).
  33. Brakewood,  Ziedan, Hendricks, Barbeau and Joslin (2020). An evaluation of the benefits of mobile fare payment technology from the user and operator perspectives. Transport Policy, Volume 93, pp. 54-66. (Link to Open Access Article).
  34. Ziedan and Brakewood (2020). A Longitudinal Analysis of Light Rail and Streetcar Safety in the United States. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. (Link to Final Manuscript; Download Preprint Paper).
  35. Haque and Brakewood (2020). A Synthesis and Comparison of American Automated Shuttle Pilot Projects. Case Studies on Transport Policy. (Link to Open Access Article).
  36. Ghahramani and Brakewood (2020). Requests for Ridehailing During an Extreme Weather Event: Exploratory Analysis of New York City. Journal of Urban Planning and Development. Volume 146, Issue 2. (Link to Open Access Article).
  37. Azad, Hoseinzadeh, Brakewood, Cherry and Han (2019). Fully Autonomous Buses: A Literature Review and Future Research Directions. Journal of Advanced Transportation. Volume 2019. (Link to Open Access Article).
  38. Yang, Brakewood, Nicolas, and Sion (2019). Bikeshare Users on a Budget? Trip Chaining Analysis of Bikeshare User Groups in Chicago. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. Volume 2673, Issue 7.(Link to Final Manuscript; Download Preprint Paper).
  39. Mesoraca and Brakewood (2018). A Synthesis of Mobile Ticketing Applications Used by Commuter Railroads in the United States.  Journal of Public Transportation. (Download Paper).
  40. Remy, Brakewood, Ghahramani, Kwak, and Peters (2018). Transit Information Utilization during an Extreme Weather Event: An Analysis of Smartphone App Data. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board. (Link to Final Manuscript; Download Preprint Paper).
  41. Brakewood and Watkins (2018). A literature review of the passenger benefits of real-time transit information. Transport Reviews. Volume 39, Issue 3. (Link to Final Manuscript; Download Preprint Paper).
  42. Beer, Brakewood, Rahman, and Viscardi (2017). Qualitative Analysis of Ridehailing Regulations in Major American Cities. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Volume 2650, pp. 84-91. (Link to Final Manuscript; Download Preprint Paper).
  43. Campbell and Brakewood (2017). Sharing Riders: How Bike-Sharing Impacts Bus Ridership in New York City. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. Volume 100, pp. 264–282.  (Link to Final Manuscript; Download Preprint Paper).
  44. Brakewood, Ghahramani, Peters, Kwak and Sion (2017). Real-Time Riders: A First Look at User Interaction Data from the Backend of a Transit and Shared Mobility Smartphone App.  Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Volume 2658 (Link to Final Manuscript; Download Preprint Version).
  45. Ghahramani and Brakewood (2016). Trends in Mobile Transit Information Utilization: An Exploratory Analysis of Transit App in New York City. Journal of Public Transportation, Volume 19, Issue 3, pp. 139-160. (Link to Final Manuscript).
  46. Rahman, Wong and Brakewood (2016). Use of Mobile Ticketing Data to Estimate an Origin-Destination Matrix for New York City Ferry Service. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Volume 2544, pp. 1-9. (Link to Final Manuscript; Download Preprint Paper).
  47. Brakewood, Macfarlane and Watkins (2015). The Impact of Real-Time Information on Bus Ridership in New York City.  Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 53, pp. 59-75 (Link to Final Manuscript; Download Preprint Paper).
  48. Brakewood, Rojas, Zegras, Watkins and Robin (2015). An Analysis of Commuter Rail Real-Time Information in Boston. Journal of Public Transportation, Volume 18, Issue 1, pp. 1-20. (Link to Final Manuscript).
  49. Brakewood, Barbeau and Watkins (2014). An Experiment Evaluating the Impacts of Real-Time Transit Information on Bus Riders in Tampa, Florida. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Volume 69, pp. 409-422.  (Link to Final Manuscript; Download Preprint Paper; Download Survey Questionnaire).
  50. Brakewood, Rojas, Robin, Sion and Jordan (2014). Forecasting Mobile Ticketing Adoption on Commuter Rail. Journal of Public Transportation, Volume 17, Issue 1, pp. 1-19. (Link to Final Manuscript; Download Survey Questionnaire).
  51. Brakewood and Kocur (2013). Unbanked Transit Riders and Open Payment Fare Collection. Transportation Research Record, Volume 2351, pp. 133–141. (Link to Final Manuscript; Download Preprint Version).
  52. Brakewood and Kocur (2011). Modeling Transit Rider Preferences for Contactless Bank Cards as Fare Media Transport for London and the Chicago Transit Authority. Transportation Research Record, Volume 2216. pp. 100-107. (Link to Paper; Download Preprint Paper).