COMMON BUS LINES

In large cities operating an important public mass transit network, we are faced with the problem of "common bus lines:" some routes share common sections and the passenger must select the buses he will probably use. While most computer packages code the section as a unique link and disregard the precise assignment of passengers on the distinct routes, we give a solution to this operational assignment based on the "perceived" travel time. Formulated as an optimization problem within a probabilistic context, the optimal subset of routes "to be selected" is obtained. A more detailed treatment on uniform and exponential cases for the time of the first vehicle to arrive on a route concludes the paper. /Author/

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  Operations Research Society of America

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• Authors:
  • Chriqui, C
  • Robillard, P
• Publication Date: 1975-5

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 115-212
• Serial:
  • Transportation Science
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue Number: 2
  • 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: Bus transportation; Computers; Passengers; Route choice; Routes; Traffic assignment
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00125452
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 5 1981 12:00AM