Effect of Self-driving Buses on Vehicle Scheduling
We are more and more close to the time when a higher number of autonomous vehicles are appearing in road traffic. The number of unanswered questions does not diminish but grow. One such issue is the role of autonomous vehicles in public transport. When talking about autonomous vehicles we often think of only cars and we think less about self-driving buses. But the economic potential inherent in autonomous buses is huge. In the Hungarian vehicle and crew scheduling practice (and also in other countries) the one driver-one vehicle control is typical. This method closely links the vehicles and the drivers. Vehicles should therefore adapt to the rest time of the crew and the employment rules. Unused reserves are generated in the system. Autonomous vehicles can release this overcapacity. Thanks to that, fewer vehicles can carry out public transport tasks and we can save extra rides. It also provides a solution to the lack of drivers, which is a basic problem in many countries. In this study the authors show the reserves that can be recovered from the system in the case of three Hungarian cities (Eger, Dunaújváros, Győr). The authors show how much savings can be achieved by running autonomous buses in European cities with a population of 45 000, 54 000 and 130 000 inhabitants. The results are promising. In smaller cities the authors could achieve about 20% of economical savings but in bigger cities 40% is also realistic. These statements are based on only rough calculations and they try to help in preparation for the future.
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- © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
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Authors:
- Nagy, Viktor
- Horváth, Balázs
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Conference:
- 5th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility (CSUM2020)
- Date: 2020-6-17 to 2020-6-19
- Publication Date: 2020-11
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 21-29
- Monograph Title: Advances in Mobility-as-a-Service Systems: Proceedings of 5th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility, Virtual CSUM2020, June 17-19, 2020, Greece
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Serial:
- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
- Volume: 1278
- Publisher: Springer International Publishing
- ISSN: 2194-5357
- Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/bookseries/11156
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Bus drivers; Buses; Savings; Schedules and scheduling
- Geographic Terms: Hungary
- Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment;
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- Accession Number: 01874498
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9783030610746
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Feb 23 2023 5:08PM