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The idea of corporate social responsibility has promoted bus operation agencies to rethink how to provide not only efficient but also environment-friendly services for residents. A study on the potential of using an optimized design of skip-stop services, one of the essential operational strategies in practice, to reduce emissions is conducted in this paper. The underlying scheduling problem is formulated as a nonlinear programming problem with the primary objective of optimizing the total costs for both passengers and operating agencies, as well as with the secondary objective of minimizing bus emissions. A solution method, which is suitable for solving the problem, is developed. A real-world case of Route 16 in Beijing is studied, in which the optimal scheduling strategy that maximizes the cost savings and environmental benefits is determined. Passengers’ costs and operational costs of the proposed scheduling strategy are compared with the optimal scheduling with skip-stop services without considering bus emissions. The results show that the proposed scheduling strategy with skip-stop services considering bus emissions outperforms the other operating strategy with respect to operational costs and bus emissions. A sensitivity study is then conducted to investigate the impact of the fleet size in operations and passenger demand on the effectiveness of the proposed stop-skipping strategy considering bus emissions.

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP050 Standing Committee on Bus Transit Systems.

18-02030

English

6p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

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Bus transit operations; Buses; Design; Optimization; Pollutants; Schedules and scheduling; Travel time

China

Design; Environment; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-02030

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 10:30AM