OPTIMIZATION MODELS FOR COMPARING CONVENTIONAL AND SUBSCRIPTION BUS FEEDER SERVICES
Analytic models are developed and used in comparing fixed route conventional bus and flexible route subscription bus systems for providing feeder services to a single point (such as a transportation terminal). In the mathematical models for these two systems, vehicle size and service zone size are the optimizable decision variables, and total system cost, including operator and user costs, is the objective function to be minimized. Average cost per trip is the criterion used to determine which system is preferable and how it should be optimized in various circumstances. With an approximation for subscription services, closed form solutions for optimal vehicle size and service zone area are obtained for both alternatives. A method for comparing the two systems when their service levels generate different passenger volumes is also presented. Sensitivity analyses indicate that the relative advantage of subscription bus services generally increases with smaller service areas, higher speeds, lower fixed bus cost, lower incremental costs of vehicle size, higher values of access and wait time, and lower values of in-vehicle time.
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Corporate Authors:
Operations Research Society of America
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Authors:
- Chang, Seong Kyu
- Schonfeld, Paul M
- Publication Date: 1991-11
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: p. 281-298
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Serial:
- Transportation Science
- Volume: 25
- Issue Number: 4
- 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 lines; Bus routes; Bus terminals; Bus transit; Bus transportation; Buses; Fixed routes; Optimization
- Uncontrolled Terms: Subscription bus service
- Old TRIS Terms: Bus services
- Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Terminals and Facilities; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00618622
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 31 1992 12:00AM