Transit Network Performance Evaluation Based on IC Card Data
Mass transit is an effective way to promote urban sustainable development and realize low-carbon transportation. Consequently, the evaluation of transit network has attracted increasing attention during recent years. With the development of traffic information collecting technology, how to use the Integrate Circuit (IC) card data, including large amounts of travelling information, also becomes a research hotspot. This study aims to build a transit network evaluation system based on IC card data. Three indicators: flow difference, the balance between supply and demand and traveling time difference were proposed to evaluate the spatial matching degree between passengers' demand and the layout of transit network. Finally, a testing example was implemented in the TransCAD to evaluate the present transit network in Nanning, China, by utilizing the IC card data at commuting peak hours. The results confirm the capability and practicability of the evaluation method, which further provides a more direct and reasonable evaluation on the spatial layout of transit network from the perspective of passengers.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP015 Transit Capacity and Quality of Service
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Authors:
- Xie, Zhong-lei
- Chen, Xiao-li
- Chang, Yun-Tao
- Peng, Zhong-Ren
- Sun, Daniel Jian
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
- Date: 2012
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 19p
- Monograph Title: TRB 91st Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automatic fare collection; Bus transit; Data collection; Passenger traffic measurement; Performance measurement; Travel demand; Urban transit
- Identifier Terms: TransCAD (Computer program)
- Geographic Terms: China
- Subject Areas: Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01371531
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 12-2776
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: May 30 2012 3:02PM