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Metro disruptions due to unexpected events reduce transit system reliability, resulting in significant productivity loss and long passenger delays. Bus bridging strategy is often used to connect stations affected by metro disruptions such that passengers could continue their journey. The literature usually designed bridging routes and then allocated buses to designed routes with specific frequencies. The restriction that each bus can only operate on a route greatly limits the service flexibility and decreases operation efficiency. We propose a flexible bus bridging strategy to deal with the disruptions of metro networks. The proposed strategy optimizes a tailored bridging path for each bus. The path dictates the stations that a bus should visit in sequence once it is dispatched from the depot. A two-stage model that balances the needs of transit agency and passengers is developed to optimize the tailored bridging paths based on affected metro stations, reserved buses, bus capacity, passenger demands and bus travel times. The Stage I model produces schematic bridging paths by minimizing the maximum bus bridging time. The Stage II model further details the paths by minimizing average passenger delay. The superiority of the proposed strategy to a traditional strategy is demonstrated in a case study in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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

18-05145

English

0000-0002-4647-3888

8p

2018

Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Bus routes; Case studies; Integer programming; Mathematical models; Optimization; Rapid transit; Routing; Service disruption; Shuttle buses; Traffic delays; Travel demand; Travel time

Rotterdam (Netherlands)

Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-05145

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 8 2018 11:17AM