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https://doi.org/10.3141/2188-02

http://scholar.google.com...ulos&publication_year=2010

Analysis of public transport system performance and level of service in urban areas is essential. Dynamic modeling of traffic conditions, passenger demand, and transit operations is important to represent adequately the complexity of and the interactions between these components in modern public transportation systems. This paper presents a transit simulation model designed to support evaluation of operations planning and control, especially in the context of advanced public transportation systems. Unlike most previous efforts in this area, the simulation model is built on a platform of a mesoscopic traffic simulation model, which allows modeling of the operation dynamics of large-scale transit systems, taking into account the main sources of service uncertainty and stochasticity. The capabilities of Mezzo as an evaluation tool of transit operations are demonstrated with an application to a real-world, high-demand bus line in metropolitan Tel Aviv, Israel, under various scenarios. The application shows that important phenomena such as bus bunching are reproduced realistically. A comparison of simulated running times and headway distributions with field data shows the model is capable of replicating observed data.

01329026

10-2554

English

pp 9-18

2010

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

9780309160629

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Figures (7) ; References (25) ; Tables (2)

Bunching; Bus transit; Bus transit operations; Headways; Highway operations; Level of service; Mesoscopic traffic flow; Running time; Traffic simulation

Tel Aviv (Israel)

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; I71: Traffic Theory

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Jan 25 2010 11:13AM

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