Impacts of Holding Control Strategies on Transit Performance: Bus Simulation Model Analysis

Transit operators are interested in strategies to improve service reliability as it is an important measure of performance and level of service. One of the common practices aimed at reducing service unreliability is holding control strategies. The design of these strategies involves the selection of a set of time point stops and the holding criteria for regulating the departure time. The interactions between passenger activity, transit operations, and traffic dynamics must be dynamically modeled to analyze the impacts of holding strategies on transit performance. An evaluation of different holding criteria and the number and location of time point stops was conducted with BusMezzo, a dynamic transit simulation model. The holding strategies were implemented in the model and applied to a high-frequency trunk bus line in Stockholm, Sweden. The analysis of the results considers the implications of holding strategies from both passenger and operator perspectives. The analysis suggests substantial gains are possible by implementing a holding strategy on the basis of the mean headway from the preceding and the succeeding buses. This strategy is the most efficient for passenger time savings as well as fleet costs and crew management.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.3141/2216-06
• Summary URL:
  http://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Impacts+of+Holding+Control+Strategies+on+Transit+Performance%3a+Bus+Simulation+Model+Analysis&author=O.+Cats&author=A.+Larijani&author=H.+Koutsopoulos&author=W.+Burghout&publication_year=2011
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• Authors:
  • Cats, Oded
  • Larijani, Anahid Nabavi
  • Koutsopoulos, Haris N
  • Burghout, Wilco
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 51-58
• Monograph Title: Transit 2011, Volume 1
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
  • Issue Number: 2216
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus transit; Level of service; On time performance; Public transit; Simulation; Transit operators
• Uncontrolled Terms: Holding control strategy; Service reliability
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01334162
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780309167659
• Report/Paper Numbers: 11-2584
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 25 2011 10:28AM