Critical Station Practical Capacity on a Bus Rapid Transit Line with Nonstopping Buses
Bus rapid transit (BRT) can offer transit mobility to meet growing travel demands by cost-effectively providing high capacity and quality of service. It is adaptable to a wide range of operating conditions and technological advancements. Stations are elements that typically control BRT line capacity, so it is essential to understand the operation of any potentially critical station to understand and manage the facility. The Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual (TCQSM) provides the standard methodology for capacity estimation. However, that model does not account for important operational aspects including the stochastic nature of many parameters beyond dwell time, along with nonstopping buses’ capacity, the degrees of saturation of the stopping and nonstopping bus streams, and the upstream average waiting time and queue length of stopping buses. We adapted the theory developed by Hisham et al. for an onstreet bus stop, to reflect the operational conditions of a BRT station and to account for these aspects. This new reliability-based capacity model tailored to BRT facilities provided superior insight into station bus capacity and quality of service to the TCQSM model.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This article adapted existing theory as noted and cited, as part of the development of new theory. All data used were adapted from existing theory as cited in the Method section. All output in the Results section is directly reproduceable by applying the theory as documented. © National Academy of Sciences: Transportation Research Board 2021.
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Authors:
- Bunker, Jonathan M
- Hisham, Faheema
- Publication Date: 2021-8
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: pp 538-549
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
- Volume: 2675
- Issue Number: 8
- Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
- ISSN: 0361-1981
- EISSN: 2169-4052
- Serial URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/home/trr
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Bus rapid transit; Bus stops; Bus terminals; Buses; Dwell time; Loading and unloading; Mathematical models; Person capacity; Quality of service; Waiting time
- Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01763410
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: TRBAM-21-00014
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 4 2021 10:54AM