CONTROL OF PAIRING OF VEHICLES ON A PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ROUTE, TWO VEHICLES, ONE CONTROL POINT

If the time required for a vehicle (particularly buses or elevators) to load passengers is an increasing function of the number of passengers loaded, then, on a route served by more than one vehicle, the vehicles tend to form pairs. If a vehicle runs behind (ahead of) schedule, it typically will pick up more (less) passengers and get even further behind (ahead of) schedule. The following is concerned with a shuttle type of route having just two vehicles and serving passengers who arrive at a constant rate. There is one control point at which vehicles can be intentionally delayed. The object is to devise a strategy of control that will minimize the average waiting time of the passengers. The strategy must correct for random fluctuations in trip time so that the headways will not become sufficiently unequal as to initiate effects of pairing. An approximate solution of the optimization problem suggests that the optimal control involves sufficiently tight control that the pairing effect has little influence on the waiting times.

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  Operations Research Society of America

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• Authors:
  • Newell, G F
• Publication Date: 1974-8

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 248-264
• Serial:
  • Transportation Science
  • Volume: 8
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • ISSN: 0041-1655
  • Serial URL: http://transci.journal.informs.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Operations; Scheduling; Travel demand
• Uncontrolled Terms: Passenger demand
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00080307
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transportation Science
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 11 1981 12:00AM