Personalized Demand-Responsive Transit Service

Smart DRT (demand responsive transit) Feeder is a system that collects transit riders from neighborhoods and takes them to transit stations. This system uses APTS (Advanced Public Transportation System) technologies to make the feeder service convenient and reliable. When demand is high, Smart Feeder will use the fixed-route fixed schedule service. When demand is low, it will use the on-demand service. This paper first describes the results of a user survey on the demand for and on the desired characteristics of a Smart Feeder system for Millbrae, California. It then describes the resulting design and implementation of an automated dial-a-ride system that will be used for the demand responsive transit service. The system uses an automated phone-in system for reservations, computerized dispatching over a wireless communication channel to the bus driver, and an automated callback system for customer notifications. User requests for pickup are collected and a computerized scheduling system acts as a broker between the multiple user requests and the transit agency to determine the optimal departure time and route that minimizes customer wait time and maximizes the number of passengers per trip. The system requires no dispatchers and operates in real time without requiring advance reservations.

• Record URL:
  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/29j111ts
• Record URL:
  https://merritt.cdlib.org/d/ark%3A%2F13030%2Fm5j104c8/2/producer%2FPRR-2004-12.pdf
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• Availability:
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• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  University of California, Berkeley

  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720-1720

  California Department of Transportation

  1120 N Street
  Sacramento, CA  United States  95814
• Authors:
  • Cayford, Randall
  • Yim, Youngbin
• Publication Date: 2004-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Illustrations; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 33p
• Serial:
  • PATH Research Report
  • Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
  • ISSN: 1055-1425

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced public transportation systems; Demand responsive transportation; Paratransit services
• Geographic Terms: Millbrae (California)
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01050350
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Report/Paper Numbers: UCB-ITS-PRR-2004-12
• Contract Numbers: TO 4102
• Files: CALTRANS, TRIS, ATRI, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 3 2007 6:43PM