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Publications

Articles published

  1. Nahmias–Biran, B., Sharabi, and N., Shiftan Y. (2014). Equity aspects in transportation projects:  Case study of Transit fare change in Haifa, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 8(1): 69-83.

  2. Nahmias–Biran, B. H., & Shiftan, Y. (2016). Towards a more equitable distribution of resources: Using activity-based models and subjective well-being measures in transport project evaluation. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 94, 672-684.

  3. Nahmias–Biran, B., Martens, K., and Shiftan Y. (2017). Integrating equity in transportation project assessment: A philosophical explorations and Its Practical Implications, Transport Reviews, 2, 192-210.

  4. Nahmias-Biran, B. H., Han, Y., Bekhor, S., Zhao, F., Zegras, C., & Ben-Akiva, M. (2018). Enriching Activity-Based Models using Smartphone-Based Travel Surveys. Transportation Research Record, 2672(42), 280-291.‏

  5. Basu, R., Araldo, A., Akkinepally, A. P., Nahmias Biran, B. H., Basak, K., Seshadri, R., & Ben-Akiva, M. (2018). Automated Mobility-on-Demand vs. Mass Transit: A Multi-Modal Activity-Driven Agent-Based Simulation Approach. Transportation Research Record, 0361198118758630.‏

  6. Nahmias-Biran, B. H., Oke, J. B., Kumar, N., Basak, K., Araldo, A., Seshadri, R., Akkinepally, A., Lima Azevedo, C.,& Ben-Akiva, M. (2019). From traditional to automated mobility on demand: a comprehensive framework for modeling on-demand services in SimMobility. Transportation Research Record, 2673(12), 15-29.

  7. Nahmias-Biran, B. H., & Shiftan, Y. (2020). Using activity-based models and the capability approach to evaluate equity considerations in transportation projects. Transportation, 47(5), 2287-2305.

  8. Nahmias-Biran, B. H., Oke, J. B., Kumar, N., Lima Azevedo, C., & Ben-Akiva, M. (2021). Evaluating the impacts of shared automated mobility on-demand services: an activity-based accessibility approach. Transportation, 48(4), 1613-1638.

  9. Adnan, M., Nahmias-Biran, B., Baburajan, V., Basak, K., & Ben-Akiva, M. (2020). Examining impacts of time-based pricing strategies in public transportation: A study of Singapore. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 140, 127-141.

  10. Kumar, N., Oke, J. B., and Nahmias-Biran, B. H. (2021). Activity-based epidemic propagation and contact network scaling in auto-dependent metropolitan areas. Sci Rep 11, 22665. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01522-w

  11. Nahmias-Biran, B. H., J. B. Oke, N. Kumar. (2021). Who Benefits from AVs? Equity Aspects of Autonomous Vehicles Policies in Full-Scale Prototype Cities. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.09.013.

  12. Agriesti, S., Roncoli, C., Nahmias-Biran, B. H. (2022). Assignment of a Synthetic Population for Activity-Based Modeling Employing Publicly Available Data. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 11(2), 148.

  13. Nahmias-Biran, B. H., Dadashev, G. , Levi, Y. (2022). Demand Exploration of Automated Mobility on-Demand Services Using an Innovative Simulation Tool. IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. vol. 3, pp. 580-591, 2022, doi: 10.1109/OJITS.2022.3197709. 

  14. Dadashev, G., Levi, Y., & Nahmias-Biran, B. H. (2023). Implications of de-carbonization policies using an innovative urban transport simulator. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 119, 103754.

  15. Nahmias-Biran, B. H., Cohen, S., Simon, V, Feldman, I. (2023). Large-Scale Mobile-Based Analysis for National Travel Demand Modeling. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 12(9), 369.‏

  16. Agriesti, S., Kuzmanovski, V., Hollmén, J., Roncoli, C., & Nahmias-Biran, B. H. (2023). A Bayesian optimization approach for calibrating large-scale activity-based transport models. IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, 4, 740-754.

  17. Nahmias-Biran, B. H., Dadashev, G., & Levi, Y. (2023). Sustainable Automated Mobility-On-Demand Strategies in Dense Urban Areas: A Case Study of the Tel Aviv Metropolis in 2040. Sustainability, 15(22), 16037.‏

  18. Grinberg-Rosenbaum, Keren-Or, et al. Best of Both Worlds: System Thinking Approach for Transportation Data-Driven Decision-Making. Transportation Research Procedia 82 (2025): 3943-3959.

  19. Agriesti, S., Roncoli, C., & Nahmias-Biran, B. H. (2025). A simulation-based framework for quantifying potential demand loss due to operational constraints in automated mobility services. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 192, 104372.​

  20. Roy, S., Nahmias-Biran, B. H., & Hasan, S. (2025). Spatial transferability of machine learning based models for ride-hailing demand prediction. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 193, 104413.

  21. Roy, S., Dadashev, G., Yfantis, L., Nahmias-Biran, B. H., & Hasan, S. (2025). Autonomous On-Demand Shuttles for First Mile–Last Mile Connectivity: Design, Optimization, and Impact Assessment. Transportation Research Record, 2679(8), 819-840.

  22. Agriesti, S., Roncoli, C., & Nahmias-Biran, B. H. (2025). An Equilibrium-Seeking Search Algorithm for Integrating Large-Scale Activity-Based and Traffic Assignment Models. IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems.

  23. Albano, G., Mattas, K., Mourtzouchou, A., Seshadri, R., Nahmias-Biran, B. H., Azevedo, C. L., & Ciuffo, B. (2025). Tradable credit scheme for mobility management: state of the art and comparison of theoretical and experimental research. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 33, 101611.

  24. ​Garus, A., Dadashev, G., Ciuffo, B., & Nahmias-Biran, B. H. (2025). Urban Micromobility in Practice: Insights from a Full-Year Analysis of Shared Scooter Use in Tel Aviv. Smart Cities, 8(6), 207.

Papers Presented at Scientific Meetings Published as Proceedings

  1. Agriesti, S. , Anashin, P. , Roncoli, C. , Nahmias-Biran, B. (2023, June). Integrating activity-based and traffic assignment models: Methodology and case study application. In 2023 8th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.‏

  2. Nahmias–Biran, B., Oke, J., N., Kumar., Basak, K., Araldo, A., Seshadri, R., Lima Azevedo, C., Ben-Akiva, M.. “From Traditional to Automated Mobility on-Demand: A Comprehensive Framework for Modelling on-Demand Services in SimMobility. The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2019.

  3. Gross, E., Oke, J., Akkinepally, A., Nahmias-Biran, B. H., Azevedo, C. L., Zegras, P. C., and Ben-Akiva, M. (2019). “Accessibility and Energy Consumption Evaluation under Different Strategies of Mobility On-Demand Deployment”. The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2019. (No. 19-02656).

  4. Nahmias –Biran, B., Han, Y., Bekhor, S., Zhao, F., Zegras, C., Ben-Akiva, M.”Enriching activity based models using smartphone-based travel surveys”, Future Urban Mobility Symposium, The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2018.

  5. Basu, R. Araldo, A., Akkinepally, A., Nahmias–Biran, B., Basak, K., Seshadri, R., Deshmunkh, N., Kumar, N., Lima Azevedo, C., Ben-Akiva, M.  “Implementation and Policy Applications of AMoD in multi-modal activity-driven agent-based urban simulator SimMobility”. The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2018.

  6. Nahmias–Biran, B., Bills, T., Shiftan. “Incorporating equity considerations in transport projects evaluation:   The San-Francisco Bay area case study”, The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2017.

  7. Nahmias–Biran, B., & Shiftan, Y. "Using Activity-Based Models and the Capability Approach to evaluate equity considerations in transportation projects”, The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2016.

Invited Papers in Scientific Meetings

  1. Nahmias-Biran, B., Dadashev, G. , Levi, Y. Sustainable automated mobility on-demand strategies in dense urban areas. The Annual Conference of the Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center, Rupin, Jun 2023.

  2. Nahmias-Biran, B., Dadashev, G. , Levi, Y. Sustainable automated mobility on-demand strategies in dense urban areas. 2023 International Symposium on Transportation Data & Modelling (ISTDM2023), Ispra, Italy, Jun 2023.

  3. Agriesti, S. , Anashin, P. , Roncoli, C. , Nahmias-Biran, B. Integrating activity-based and traffic assignment models: Methodology and case study application. 2023 International Symposium on Transportation Data & Modelling (ISTDM2023), Ispra, Italy, Jun 2023.

  4. Agriesti, S. , Anashin, P. , Roncoli, C. , Nahmias-Biran, B. Integrating activity-based and traffic assignment models: Methodology and case study application. 2023 International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS), Nice, France, Jun 2023.

  5. Nahmias-Biran, B., Dadashev, G. , Levi, Y. Sustainable automated mobility on-demand strategies in dense urban areas. The Israel Association for Transportation Research Tel-Aviv, May 2023.

  6. Nahmias-Biran, B., Cohen, S., Feldman, I. Large-Scale Mobile Based Analysis for a National Travel Demand Modelling. The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2023.

  7. Agriesti, S., Kuzmanovski V. , Hollmén J.  and Roncoli C., Nahmias-Biran, B. Calibration of large-scale behavioral transport models via Bayesian Optimization. The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2023.

  8. Dadashev, G., Levi, Y., Nahmias-Biran, B. Implications of de-carbonization policies using an innovative urban transport simulator. The Israel Association for Transportation Research‏, Tel-Aviv, Jul 2022.

  9. Dadashev, G., Levi, Y., Nahmias-Biran, B. Implications of de-carbonization policies using an innovative urban transport simulator. NECTAR, Toronto, Jul 2022.

  10. Agriesti S., Roncoli C. & Nahmias-Biran B. On the modelling ofa synthetic population foragent based modeling–Open data and mobility patterns for the city of Tallinn. Transport Research Finland 2022.

  11. Dadashev, G., Levi, Y., Nahmias-Biran, B. Implications of Future Transportation and Car-Lite Policies in Dense Auto-Dependent Cities. TUM, Singapore, Apr 2022.

  12. Levi, Y., Orenstein, I., Feldman, I., Nahmias-Biran, B. H. (2021). Discovering Commuting Patterns in Israel using Multiple Big Data Sources.  TUM, Singapore, Apr 2022.

  13. Orenstein, I., Levi, Y., Feldman, I., Nahmias-Biran, B. H. (2021). Discovering Commuting Patterns in Israel using Multiple Big Data Sources.  The 1st Annual Conference of the Israeli Smart Transportation Research Center, Tel-Aviv, Jun 2021.

  14. Kumar, N., Oke, J. B., and Nahmias-Biran, B. H. Activity-based contact network scaling and epidemic propagation in metropolitan areas. The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2021.

  15. Oke, J. B., A. P. Akkinepally, S. Chen, Y. M. Aboutaleb, Y. Xie, B. Nahmias-Biran, C. L. Azevedo, Y. Han, P. C. Zegras, J. Ferreira, and M. Ben-Akiva. Simulation and Evaluation of Automated Mobility On-Demand Strategies in Dense Transit-Oriented Cities, The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2020.

  16. Nahmias-Biran, B., J. B. Oke, N. Kumar, A. P. Akkinepally, C. L. Azevedo, J. Ferreira, P. C. Zegras, and M. Ben-Akiva, Who Benefits from AVs? Equity Aspects of Autonomous Vehicles Policies in Full-Scale Prototype Cities. The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2020. 

  17. Nahmias-Biran, B. H., Oke, J. B., Kumar, C. L. Azevedo, M. Ben-Akiva. “Evaluating the impacts of shared automated mobility on-demand: an activity-based accessibility approach”, Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research (NECTAR), Helsinki, June 2019.

  18. Nahmias–Biran, B., Oke, J., N., Kumar., Basak, K., Araldo, A., Seshadri, R., Lima Azevedo, C., Ben-Akiva, M.. “From Traditional to Automated Mobility on-Demand: A Comprehensive Framework for Modelling on-Demand Services in SimMobility” The 21st Conference of Industrial Engineering and Management, Apr 2019.

  19. Adnan, M., Nahmias Biran, B., Baburajan, V., Loganathan, H., Ben-Akiva, M. “Examining impacts of pricing strategies in public transportation using SimMobility Mid-Term simulator: A Study of Singapore”, The Israel Association of Transportation Research, Tel-Aviv, Apr 2019.

  20. Nahmias–Biran, B., Oke, J., N., Kumar., Basak, K., Araldo, A., Seshadri, R., Lima Azevedo, C., Ben-Akiva, M.. “From Traditional to Automated Mobility on-Demand: A Comprehensive Framework for Modelling on-Demand Services in SimMobility”, The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2019.

  21. Gross, E., Oke, J., Akkinepally, A., Nahmias-Biran, B. H., Azevedo, C. L., Zegras, P. C., and Ben-Akiva, M. (2019). “Accessibility and Energy Consumption Evaluation under Different Strategies of Mobility On-Demand Deployment”. The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2019. (No. 19-02656).

  22. Araldo, A., Akkinepally, A., Nahmias–Biran, B., Basak, K., Seshadri, R., Deshmunkh, N., Kumar, N., Lima Azevedo, C., Ben-Akiva, M.  “Implementation and Policy Applications of AMoD in multi-modal activity-driven agent-based urban simulator SimMobility”, The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2018.

  23. Nahmias–Biran, B., Han, Y., Bekhor, S., Zhao, F., Zegras, C., Ben-Akiva, M. ”Enriching activity based models using smartphone-based travel surveys”, Future Urban Mobility Symposium, The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2018.

  24. Nahmias-Biran, B., Kumar, N., Araldo, A., Basak, K., Seshadri, R., Oke, J., Akkinepally, A., Lima Azevedo, C., Ben-Akiva, M. ”A Comprehensive Framework for Modelling Mobility on Demand Services in SimMobility”, hEART 2017: 6th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation, Haifa, Israel, Sep 2017.

  25. Nahmias–Biran, B., Han, Y., Bekhor, S., Zhao, F., Zegras, C., Ben-Akiva, M. ”Enriching activity based models using smartphone-based travel surveys”, Future Urban Mobility Symposium, Singapore, July 2017.

  26. Nahmias–Biran, B., Bills, T., Shiftan. “Incorporating equity considerations in transport projects evaluation:   The San-Francisco Bay area case study”, The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2017.

  27. Nahmias–Biran, B., & Shiftan, Y. “Incorporating equity considerations in transport projects evaluation: developing new measures”, The Israel Association of Transportation Research, Tel-Aviv, April 2016.

  28. Nahmias–Biran, B., & Shiftan, Y. “Incorporating equity considerations in transport projects evaluation: developing new measures”, Workshop on Doctoral Research in Transportation Modeling as part of the Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2016.

  29. Nahmias–Biran, B., & Shiftan, Y. "Using Activity-Based Models and the Capability Approach to evaluate equity considerations in transportation projects”, The Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, US, Jan 2016.

  30. Nahmias–Biran, B., & Shiftan, Y. "Using activity-based models to analyze equity in sustainable transportation policies", Workshop on travel behavior and equity as part of the IATBR conference, London, UK, July 2015.  

  31. Nahmias–Biran, B., & Shiftan, Y. "Using Activity-Based Models and the Capability Approach to evaluate equity considerations in transportation projects”, The 14th International Conference on Travel Behavior Research (IATBR), London, UK, July 2015.

  32. Nahmias–Biran, B., Barth, T., Arsenio, E., and Shiftan Y “Equity in Transport and Health, what can we learn from each other?”, Climate Change Targets and Urban Transport Policy Conference, WCTR SIGG3, Malta, April 2015.

  33. Nahmias–Biran, B., Martens, K., and Shiftan Y. “Integrating equity in transportation project assessment: philosophical explorations”, The Annual Conference of the Israeli Planners Association (IPA), Ben-Gurion University, Israel, February 2015.

  34. Nahmias–Biran, B., & Shiftan, Y. "Using Activity-Based Models and the Capability Approach to evaluate equity considerations in transportation projects”, The 56th Conference of the Israeli Geographical Association, Hebrew University, Israel, December 2015.

  35. Nahmias–Biran, B., & Shiftan, Y. “Incorporating equity considerations in transport projects evaluation: developing a new measure”, Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research (NECTAR), Azores (Portugal), June 2013.

  36. Nahmias–Biran, B., & Shiftan, Y. “Incorporating equity considerations in transport projects evaluation: developing a new measure” The Israel Association of Transportation Research, Tel-Aviv, March 2013.

  37. Nahmias–Biran, B., & Shiftan, Y. “Incorporating equity considerations in transport projects evaluation: developing a new measure”, The 53th Conference of the Israeli Geographical Association, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, December 2013.

  38. Nahmias–Biran, B., Sharabi, and N., Shiftan Y. “Equity aspects in transportation projects: Case study of Transit fare change in Haifa” The 52th Conference of the Israeli Geographical Association, Tel-Aviv University, Israel, December 2011.

  39. Nahmias–Biran, B., Sharabi, and N., Shiftan Y. “Equity aspects in transportation projects: Case study of Transit fare change in Haifa” The 7th Conference for Construction and Infrastructure, Israel Engineers Association for Construction and Infrastructure, Tel-Aviv, Israel, November 2011.

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