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Title:

Breaking into Emergency Shuttle Service: Aspects and Impacts of Retracting Buses from Existing Scheduled Bus Services

Accession Number:

01626420

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Public transit is considered an essential service for any modern city, due to its indispensable role in supporting the daily activities of city residents. When unexpected interruptions to the public transit service occur, they reduce the quality of service provided to the public and diminish the system’s ability to retain existing customers and attract new ones. One of the main strategies that has been widely employed to deal with rail service interruptions is “bus bridging”, whereby buses from scheduled services are retracted and deployed to offer shuttle services along the interrupted rail segment. Nevertheless, very few efforts are found in the literature to assess the effectiveness of bus bridging and explore its impacts on the existing scheduled bus services. Therefore, this study aims at exploring the different aspects and impacts of retracting buses from scheduled services in response to subway and streetcar service interruptions in the City of Toronto. The paper explores the size and impacts of emergency shuttle service deployment, as well as the system response and recovery times using detailed subway and streetcar shuttle service reports collected in 2015 by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), the public transit provider in the City of Toronto. The paper shows remarkable fluctuations not only in the utilized number of shuttle service buses over time, but also on the service response and recovery times. This study can be of interest to route management and service planning departments at transit agencies, as it provides new insights into the different aspects and effects of retracting buses from scheduled services.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP010 Standing Committee on Transit Management and Performance.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-06071

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Diab, Ehab
Feng, Guangnan
Shalaby, Amer

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

Toronto Transit Commission

Uncontrolled Terms:

Service planning

Geographic Terms:

Toronto (Canada)

Subject Areas:

Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-06071

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 12:27PM