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      <title>A Guide for Remote Boarding/Deboarding Aircraft Operations</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:58:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Boarding Passengers with Reduced Mobility onto Commercial Aircraft without Passenger Boarding Bridges




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      <description><![CDATA[Many commercial flights at United States airports enplane and deplane passengers without the use of terminal-connected passenger boarding bridges. Some alternate methods of aircraft boarding may be challenging, particularly for those with reduced mobility, potentially leading to a compromise of passenger dignity and increased risk of injuries for all parties involved (e.g., passengers may need to be manually carried up or down boarding stairs). Research is needed to explore practical solutions, including new concepts, for providing a safe and dignified enplaning and deplaning experience for passengers with reduced mobility.

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research is to develop a guide to help airport industry practitioners select and implement solutions for enplaning and deplaning commercial aircraft passengers with reduced mobility when a terminal-connected passenger boarding bridge is not available.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 20:13:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Connecticut Department of Transportation Integrated Mobility Innovation Demonstration Grant Application for Testing and Deployment of Automated Buses on Connecticut Fastrak</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Connecticut Department of Transportation will test automated, electric buses on its CTfastrack bus rapid transit corridor to improve safety for riders with disabilities. Precision, automated docking and platooning will eliminate driver errors that result in wide platform gaps and other unsafe situations and also will reduce delays.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:20:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Cost-Effective Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) to Ensure ADA-Compliant Level Boarding for Bus Rapid Transit</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) will receive funding to equip buses with an advanced driver assistance system that uses precision guidance sensors to dock at stations and provide level boarding across the agency's bus rapid transit system. The project will improve accessibility and reduce dwell time, providing a better customer experience.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2022 16:17:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis--The Transit IDEA Program. TrainMate Robotic System: Making Public Transportation, Public</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The use of robotic assistive technologies has been shown to be very helpful in improving accessibility to transportation for people with disabilities. Robotic guide dogs, robotic assistants for people with physical disabilities, and cognitive disabilities have been developed throughout the world to help passengers navigate through public spaces, including transportation stations and vehicles. In this Transit IDEA project, a robotic system, the TrainMate, was designed as a cost-effective, train station or public transportation assistant robot to help passengers with disabilities using mobility devices independently board and deboard trains at non-accessible, street-level train stations. The system can also provide service to passengers with other types of disabilities. It can also cater to other specific needs of the transit agency such as security and surveillance, cleansing and disinfection, public health monitoring, station asset inspection and providing announcements and general information to the passengers.  The research team conducted a thorough requirements analysis and developed electromechanical CAD blueprints of a working prototype of the TrainMate robotic system. The software system and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms were also developed and tested under varying scenarios and environmental test cases. The final simulation results indicated that the TrainMate system takes just a little over two minutes to board or deboard a passenger using a mobility device on a railcar as opposed to the average of 7 minutes it takes the train station staff to do so. This is more than 300% increase in efficiency. The research has also resulted in several blueprints of hardware and software components that are ready to be prototyped and integrated to build the first physical working prototype of the TrainMate system. The fully developed TrainMate system will afford physically challenged passengers with autonomy and independence in using public transportation. It will also provide public transit agencies a modular and flexible technology platform to address the ever-changing needs and requirements of their passengers in an efficient and practical manner making use of advancements in technology.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2022 17:22:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Spatial Effect of Socio-Economic Demographics on Transit Ridership: a Case Study in New York</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[This research will quantify the spatial impacts that demographics and economics have on public transit ridership. Previous research that attempted to investigate the relationship between ridership at a given transit stop and the social and economic characteristics of the neighborhood in which the transit stop is located have implicitly ignored spatial effects. In reality, the project will observe that the passengers embarking or disembarking at a given transit stop live, work, and recreate in both the immediate neighborhood as well as the adjacent neighborhoods. This research determines the magnitude of the socio-economic influences on public transit ridership and determines at what distance from a transit stop do these influences becomes negligible. In order to accomplish these goals, portions of the New York City subway system and the surrounding communities will be used as a case study.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:50:38 GMT</pubDate>
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