Improving Bus-Passenger Transfers on Road Segments through On-Line Operational Tactics

The use of transfers in public transit has the advantages of reducing operational costs and introducing more flexible, efficient route planning. In contrast, the main drawback from the passengers’ point of view is the inconvenience of traveling multi-legged trips. In order to diminish the waiting time caused by passenger transfers, synchronized timetables were introduced. The use of these timed transfers suffers from uncertainty about the simultaneous arrival of two (or more) buses at an existing stop, which can lead to deterioration in system reliability. In order to alleviate the uncertainty of simultaneous arrivals, a new passenger-transfer concept was developed that extends the commonly used single-point encounter (at a single transit stop) to a road-segment encounter (with any point along the road segment constituting a possible encounter point). The objectives of this work are three-fold: (a) to define the bus-encounter probability along a road-segment, (b) to introduce a simulation model to estimate the bus-encounter probability, and (c) to model the bus-encounter probability upper bound. It is believed that the proposed concept will reduce the uncertainty of meeting at a point and enable more flexibility in deploying on-line operational tactics (hold, skip stop, short-turn, etc.).

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Hadas, Yuval
  • Ceder, Avishai
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2007-1-21 to 2007-1-25
• Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Monograph Title: TRB 86th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Bus transit operations; Bus transportation; Bus travel; Flexibility; Passenger transportation; Public transit; Route choice; Routes and routing; Transit operating agencies
• Subject Areas: Motor Carriers; Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01049247
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 07-0617
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Feb 8 2007 5:12PM