01Exposure
Heat, cold and passenger experience
Thermal stress, comfort, accessibility, waiting conditions and heterogeneous passenger responses to weather.
Research area 03
Climate-responsive urban transport
How public transport can respond to heat, cold, disruption and changing passenger demand without deepening inequality.
This programme studies the interaction between weather, climate exposure, passenger behaviour and transit operations. It focuses on Bus Rapid Transit, thermal stress, service reliability and decision-support systems that can adapt routing and operations in real time.
- Relevant works
- 01
- Curated resources
- 05
- Investigations
- 00
- Active vocabulary
- 22
Research map
Three connected lines of inquiry.
The map keeps the programme broad enough to grow while making its boundaries and analytical emphasis visible.
02Operations
Demand and service performance
Ridership, reliability, crowding, travel time, disruptions and the operational consequences of climate variability.
03Adaptation
Routing and decision support
Real-time analytics, adaptive routing, scenario planning and accountable operational responses.
Current questions
Questions that organise the work.
These are programme-level questions. Individual studies define narrower populations, interventions, systems, jurisdictions and periods.
- 01
How do extreme heat, sudden cold and seasonal conditions change ridership, waiting, crowding and service performance?
- 02
Which real-time signals can improve routing and operations without creating opaque or inequitable decisions?
- 03
How should transport agencies measure resilience for older passengers, workers and other climate-exposed groups?
Research programme
Workstreams, not content buckets.
Each stream can contain projects, publications, evidence reviews, methods, datasets and public outputs without duplicating their underlying records.
Weather, ridership and performance
Longitudinal and mixed-methods studies linking climate conditions with passenger and operational outcomes.
Climate-aware routing
Models and prototypes for real-time service decisions, tested against reliability, accessibility and equity criteria.
Resilient public mobility
Reviews, agency reports and public communication on climate adaptation in urban transport systems.
Selected work
Research, analysis and public records.
Records are drawn from reviewed programme assignments and retain their existing catalogue, publication and canonical identities.
Browse the catalogueAI Surveillance in Realtime Bus Rapid Transit routing
PhD dissertation on AI surveillance, realtime routing and intelligent public transport, examining the resilience of Bus Rapid Transit systems.
Open the recordRelated projects
01AI Surveillance in Realtime Bus Rapid Transit routing
Doctoral research on intelligent surveillance, realtime routing and the resilience of Bus Rapid Transit systems.
Project recordResearch library
Six evidence and communication shelves.
Authorship and evidence type remain explicit. Curated scholarship is never presented as Dr. Arachchige’s publication, and policy or industry material is not presented as peer-reviewed evidence.
01 00
Evidence syntheses
Systematic, scoping and mixed-methods reviews with methods, status, search dates and update policies disclosed.
No public records yet 02 01
Published work
Peer-reviewed outputs, dissertations, reports, investigations and external publications represented by one canonical record.
Current records 03 03
Research by others
Annotated landmark and current studies selected for relevance, quality and their relationship to the active questions.
Reviewed selection 04 01
Policy & industry reports
Regulator, government, standards-body, institutional and industry material, separated from peer-reviewed evidence.
Initial reviewed selection 05 01
Books & long-form
A selective reading path through foundational and directly relevant books, monographs and chapters.
Initial reviewed selection 06 00
Visual & public communication
Public explainers, talks, timelines and visual material with a traceable evidence basis.
Developing collectionResearch by others
A bounded selection of landmark or directly relevant scholarly work; it is not represented as a comprehensive bibliography.
Weather and daily mobility in international perspective: A cross-comparison of Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish city regions
Lars Böcker, Tanu Priya Uteng, Chengxi Liu and 1 others · Elsevier
Compares weather–mobility relationships across city regions, helping distinguish contextual and population-level variation in travel responses.
- Weather, passengers and service performance
- Equitable transport resilience
- Weather, ridership and performance
- Resilient public mobility
- DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2019.07.012
Impacts of weather on public transport ridership: Results from mining data from different sources
Meng Zhou, Donggen Wang, Qingquan Li · Elsevier
Uses disaggregated transit and weather data to examine heterogeneous ridership responses, directly informing demand-sensitive operations.
- Weather, passengers and service performance
- Weather, ridership and performance
- DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2016.12.001
The impact of climate change and weather on transport: An overview of empirical findings
Mark J. Koetse, Piet Rietveld · Elsevier
Synthesises empirical evidence on weather and climate effects across transport, framing the exposure and adaptation questions for public mobility.
- Weather, passengers and service performance
- Equitable transport resilience
- Weather, ridership and performance
- Resilient public mobility
- DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2008.12.004
Policy & industry reports
A bounded selection of authoritative policy, legal, standards or institutional material, kept distinct from peer-reviewed scholarship.
Adapting Transport to Climate Change and Extreme Weather
International Transport Forum · OECD Publishing
Connects infrastructure, operations and institutional planning in a practical adaptation framework for transport systems exposed to climate extremes.
- Jurisdiction
- International
- Accountable real-time operational signals
- Equitable transport resilience
- Climate-aware routing
- Resilient public mobility
Books & long-form
A selective reading path of foundational or directly relevant books and monographs.
Urban Transit Systems and Technology
Vukan R. Vuchic · John Wiley & Sons
Provides a systems and operations foundation for evaluating transit modes, service design and network performance before adding climate-responsive decision layers.
- Weather, passengers and service performance
- Accountable real-time operational signals
- Climate-aware routing
- Resilient public mobility
- DOI: 10.1002/9780470168066
- ISBN‑13: 9780471758235
- ISBN‑13: 9780470168066
Visual & public communication
No public item is included until its source basis, authorship and programme relevance are verified.
No public resource is currently included on this shelf.
Developing collection; no verified public resource is currently exposed.
Research vocabulary
A visible topic language for people and machines.
Terms describe the actual programme, methods and settings. They support internal navigation and scholarly discovery without repeating hidden or irrelevant keyword lists.
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Core concepts
- climate-responsive transport
- urban transport resilience
- Bus Rapid Transit
- BRT
- thermal stress
- public transport ridership
- real-time routing
- adaptive transit operations
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Measures & methods
- service reliability
- passenger demand
- travel behaviour
- time-series analysis
- weather exposure
- mixed methods
- decision support systems
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Contexts
- Guangzhou BRT
- extreme heat
- sudden cold
- older passengers
- equitable mobility
- climate adaptation
- public transport accessibility
Open research infrastructure
Public assets only when the record exists.
Protocols, registrations, datasets, code, evidence ledgers and citation exports appear here only after their public destination and current version have been verified.
Availability is not implied.
No programme-level protocol, dataset, code package, evidence ledger or citation export has been verified as publicly accessible under the M4 asset contract.
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