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Amer Shalaby

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

6

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389

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Scholarly Papers (6)

1.

A Novel Model for Transfer Synchronization in Transit Networks and a Lagrangian-Based Heuristic Solution Method

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Feb 2022
Zahra Ansarilari, Merve Bodur and Amer Shalaby
University of Toronto, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Toronto
Downloads 110 (640,165)

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Transfer synchronization, Bus dwell time determination, Vehicle capacity, Headway regularity, Mixed integer linear programming, Lagrangian relaxation, Heuristic

Transit Pulse: Advancing Public Transit Social Media Analysis with Large Language Models

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 01 Nov 2025
Jiahao Wang and Amer Shalaby
University of Toronto and University of Toronto
Downloads 72 (871,518)

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Public transit, large language models, Social media analytics, Retrieval-augmented generation, Information extraction, Agent-based systems

Transit Pulse: Advancing Public Transit Social Media Analysis with Large Language Models

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Apr 2026
Jiahao Wang and Amer Shalaby
University of Toronto and University of Toronto
Downloads 10 (1,621,812)

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public transit, artificial intelligence, Large Language Model, Social media mining, information extraction

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Exploring On-Demand Transit Ride Cancellation Behaviour and Time Window Choice

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 13 Jun 2025
University of Toronto, University of Toronto and University of Toronto - Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
Downloads 65 (924,743)

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on-demand transit, cancellation, discrete models, prediction, trip records

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ELSSA: Explainable Large Language Model-Based Decision Support for Public Transit Incident Management

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 24 Dec 2025
Jiahao Wang and Amer Shalaby
University of Toronto and University of Toronto
Downloads 58 (989,921)

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public transit operations, incident management, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), knowledge graphs, decision support systems

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To Fix or to Flex: Re-Optimizing Inefficient Fixed-Route Transit or Shifting to On-Demand for Greater Efficiency

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 25 Sep 2025
University of Toronto, University of Toronto, CNRS-LEM (UMR 9221) and University of Toronto
Downloads 58 (980,173)

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on-demand transit, Fixed-route Transit, Data Envelopment Analysis, Malmquist Index, Demographic Analysis, Convexity and Nonconvexity

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Dynamic State Embedding with Proximity-Aware Transformers for Reinforcement Learning-Based Bus Holding Control

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 May 2026
Jiahao Wang and Amer Shalaby
University of Toronto and University of Toronto
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Bus bunching, Bus holding control, Reinforcement learning, State representation learning, Transformer, Transit operations