00820009

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1760-04

http://scholar.google.com...+Tal&publication_year=2001

The problem of designing efficient bus synchronization into a timetable is addressed. Synchronization means a fit between the arrival time of one bus to the departure time of another bus, so that passengers can transfer from one bus to another. Synchronization is the most difficult task of transit schedulers and is addressed intuitively. The scheduler, in fact, attempts to create the departure times in the timetable while complying with the required frequency, efficient assignment of trips to a single bus chain, and synchronization of certain arrivals. Efficient procedures are presented for applying maximum synchronization as a useful tool for the scheduler in creating timetables. These procedures attempt to maximize the number of simultaneous bus arrivals at the connection (transfer) points of the bus network. Accounting for user satisfaction and convenience, transit schedulers appreciate the importance of creating a timetable with maximum synchronization, which enables the transfer of passengers from one route to another with minimum wait time at transfer nodes. Efficient procedures are described to create the maximum, simultaneous bus arrivals, and a series of examples is presented to illustrate the procedures.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1760, Transit: Bus Transit and Maintenance, Paratransit, and New Technology.

English

p. 28-33

2001

Transportation Research Record

0309072220

Figures (5) ; References (8) ; Tables (1)

Arrivals and departures; Bus transit operations; Customer satisfaction; Schedules and scheduling; Timetables; Transfers; Waiting time

Convenience; Synchronization

Aviation; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation

TRIS, TRB

Nov 13 2001 12:00AM

• ACCESSIBLE RALEIGH TRANSPORTATION: A PARATRANSIT SYSTEM USING TRIP-BY-TRIP ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION AND TWO-TIERED, USER-SIDE SUBSIDY
• ALTERNATIVE-FUELED, LOW-EMISSION BUS PURCHASES IN NORTH CAROLINA
• BUS RAPID TRANSIT INSTITUTIONAL ISSUES: THE ROUTE FROM RESEARCH TO EXPERIENCE
• BUS STOP-ENVIRONMENT CONNECTION: DO CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT CORRELATE WITH BUS STOP CRIME?
• BUS TIMETABLES WITH EVEN PASSENGER LOADS AS OPPOSED TO EVEN HEADWAYS
• BUS TRANSIT IN THE 21ST CENTURY: SOME PERSPECTIVES AND PROSPECTS
• COMMUTER-BASED CARSHARING: MARKET NICHE POTENTIAL
• EFFECT OF AUTOMATIC VEHICLE LOCATION ON SCHEDULE ADHERENCE FOR MASS TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION BUS SYSTEM
• EQUILIBRIUM MODEL BASED ON A MICROFOUNDATION FOR FORECASTING DIAL-A-RIDE RIDERSHIP
• EVALUATION OF FEEDER BUS SYSTEMS WITH PROBABILISTIC TIME-VARYING DEMANDS AND NONADDITIVE TIME COSTS
• FEASIBILITY, FINANCIAL, AND ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS OF AN ADVANCED MAGLEV-BASED INTERMODAL SYSTEM
• HOW EFFECTIVE IS COMPUTER-ASSISTED SCHEDULING AND DISPATCHING IN PARATRANSIT? RESULTS FROM A SURVEY
• IMPROVING TRANSIT SERVICE QUALITY AND HEADWAY REGULARITY WITH REAL-TIME CONTROL
• NATIONAL BUS AND FACILITIES CONDITION ASSESSMENT
• POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF AUTOMATIC VEHICLE LOCATION AND COMPUTER-AIDED DISPATCH TECHNOLOGY ON PARATRANSIT PERFORMANCE: A SIMULATION STUDY
• POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF NEXT-DAY RESERVATION POLICIES ON USERS OF AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT PARATRANSIT SYSTEMS
• REFINEMENT AND USE OF SERVICE STANDARDS AT THE SAN DIEGO METROPOLITAN TRANSIT DEVELOPMENT BOARD
• SIMULATION MODEL FOR EVALUATING INTELLIGENT PARATRANSIT SYSTEMS
• SUCCESSFUL ARTERIAL STREET LIMITED-STOP EXPRESS BUS SERVICE IN CHICAGO
• TRIP TIME ANALYZERS: KEY TO TRANSIT SERVICE QUALITY
• USER BEHAVIOR EVALUATION OF AN INTELLIGENT SHARED ELECTRIC VEHICLE SYSTEM
• WINSTON-SALEM MOBILITY MANAGER: DATA COLLECTION, VALIDATION, AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION