Publications

Watkins, Kari, Brian Ferris, Yegor Malinovskiy and Alan Borning. “Beyond Context Sensitive Solutions: Using Value Sensitive Design to Identify Needed Transit Information Tools.” Submitted for publication in the Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers.

Watkins, Kari, Alan Borning, G. Scott Rutherford, Brian Ferris and Brian Gill. “Impact of Real-time Transit Information Tools on Bus Drivers.” Submitted for publication in Transportation.

Watkins, K., Ferris, B., Borning, A., Rutherford, S., and Layton, D. (2011) "Where Is My Bus? Impact of mobile real-time information on the perceived and actual wait time of transit riders." Transportation Research Part A. 45. 839–848.  (Paper)

Wu, Yao-Jan, Mark Hallenbeck, Yinhai Wang and Kari Watkins. “Evaluation of Arterial and Freeway Interaction for Determining the Feasibility of Traffic Diversion.” Journal of Transportation Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 137, No. 8, 2011.

Watkins, K., Ferris, B., and Rutherford, S. (2010) "Explore: An Attraction Search Tool for Transit Trip Planning." Journal of Public Transportation. Vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 111-128. 2010. (Paper)

Ferris, B., Watkins, K., and Borning, A. (2010) "Location-Aware Tools for Improving Public Transit Usability." IEEE Pervasive Computing. Vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 13-19. Jan-Mar 2010. (Paper)

Schramm, LisaRene, Kari Watkins, and G. Scott Rutherford. “Amenities That Effect Variability of Travel Time on BRT Systems.” Transportation Research Record #2143, pp. 77-84, 2010.

Watkins, Kari, Timothy Sorenson, and Norman Garrick. “Platform Layout for the New Britain – Hartford Busway.” Transportation Research Record # 1791, Transportation Research Board, 2002. 

Conference Papers

Watkins, Kari, Mark Wheldon and G. Scott Rutherford. “Measurement and evaluation of transit travel time reliability”. Proceedings of Conference on Advanced Systems for Public Transport, Santiago, Chile, July 2012.

Watkins, Kari, Brian Ferris, Mark Hallenbeck and Alan Borning. “Next Steps in Transit Rider Information: Development of a Webapp for Personalized Transit Service Alerts.” Proceedings of Transportation Research Board 2012 Annual Meeting.
 
Watkins, Kari, Brian Ferris, Alan Borning, G. Scott Rutherford and David Layton. “Where Is My Bus? Impact of mobile real-time information on the perceived and actual wait time of transit riders.” Proceedings of Transportation Research Board 2012 Annual Meeting.
 
Ferris, B., Watkins, K., and Borning, A. (2011) "OneBusAway: Behavioral and Satisfaction Changes Resulting from Providing Real-Time Arrival Information for Public Transit." Proceedings of the 2011 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. (Paper)
 
Watkins, K., Ferris, B. (2010) "Explore: An Attraction Search Tool for Transit Trip Planning." Proceedings of the 2010 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. (Paper)

Watkins, Kari and Mark Hallenbeck. “Impact of Weather on Freeway Travel Times in the Rain City.” Transportation Research Board 2010 Annual Meeting.

Ferris, Brian, Kari Watkins, and Alan Borning. “OneBusAway: Results from providing real-time arrival information for public transit.” To be presented at ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2010.

Ferris, B., Watkins, K., and Borning, A. (2009) "OneBusAway: A Transit Traveller Information System." Proceedings of Mobicase 2009. San Diego, CA, USA, October 26-29, 2009. (Paper)

Watkins, Kari and Mark Hallenbeck, “Reliability Measures - Which Statistics Will Actually Help Manage Our Roadways?” Transportation Research Forum 50th Annual Forum, 2009.

Watkins, Kari, Peter Plumeau, and Michael Munson. “A New Tool for Assessing Developments: The Land Use Transportation Index.”Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, 2003. 

Watkins, Kari, “How the stigma of a Bus Rapid Transit system was overcome – The New Britain to Hartford Bus Rapid Transit Experience.” American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Rail Transit Conference, 2002.