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Kari Edison Watkins

Assistant Professor

Articles

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.” Transportation Research Part A, Vol. 45, No. 8, pp.839-848, Oct 2011.
  4. 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.
  5. Watkins, Kari, Brian Ferris, and G. Scott Rutherford. “Explore: An Attraction Search Tool for Transit Trip Planning.” Journal of Public Transportation, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 111-128, 2010.
  6. 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.
  7. Ferris, Brian, Kari Watkins, and Alan Borning. “Location-Aware Tools for Improving Public Transit Usability.” IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 13-19, Jan-Mar 2010.
  8. Watkins, Kari, Timothy Sorenson, and Norman Garrick. “Platform Layout for the New Britain – Hartford Busway.” Transportation Research Record # 1791, Transportation Research Board, 2002.

Proceedings

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Ferris, Brian, Kari Watkins and Alan Borning. “OneBusAway: Behavioral and Satisfaction Changes Resulting from Providing Real-Time Arrival Information for Public Transit”. Proceedings of Transportation Research Board 2011 Annual Meeting.
  5. Watkins, Kari and Brian Ferris. “Explore: An Attraction Search Tool for Transit Trip Planning.” Proceedings of Transportation Research Board 2010 Annual Meeting.
  6. Watkins, Kari and Mark Hallenbeck. “Impact of Weather on Freeway Travel Times in the Rain City.” Proceedings of Transportation Research Board 2010 Annual Meeting.
  7. Ferris, Brian, Kari Watkins, and Alan Borning. “OneBusAway: Results from providing real-time arrival information for public transit.” Proceedings of Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2010 (Best paper nominee).
  8. Ferris, Brian, Kari Watkins, and Alan Borning. “OneBusAway: A Transit Traveller Information System.” Proceedings of International Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications and Services (MobiCase), 2009.
  9. Watkins, Kari and Mark Hallenbeck, “Reliability Measures - Which Statistics Will Actually Help Manage Our Roadways?” Proceedings of Transportation Research Forum 50th Annual Forum, 2009.
  10. Watkins, Kari, Peter Plumeau, and Michael Munson. “A New Tool for Assessing Developments: The Land Use Transportation Index.” Proceedings of Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, 2003.
  11. Watkins, Kari, “How the stigma of a Bus Rapid Transit system was overcome – The New Britain to Hartford Bus Rapid Transit Experience.” Proceedings of American Public Transportation Association (APTA) Rail Transit Conference, 2002.