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Title:

Optimizing Stop Spacing and Headway for A Feeder Bus Route Considering Stochastic Vehicle Arrivals

Accession Number:

01476451

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Stop spacing and headway are key elements in transit service planning. The trade-offs between increasing service accessibility and reducing travel and wait time shall be carefully considered. The objective of this study is to optimize bus stop spacing and headway considering stochastic vehicle arrivals, which yields the minimum total cost (including user cost and operator cost). It is found that both of the optimized stop spacing and headway significantly increase compared to the situation without headway variance. A case study considering a bus route in Newark, New Jersey indicates that the optimized total number of stops decreases about 15% when there is 1-min2 headway variance increment per stop. Furthermore, the increase of dispatching headway variance and headway variance increment per stop also leads to decreased stop spacing

Supplemental Notes:

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

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-2091

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Zhao, Liuhui
Chien, Steven I-Jy

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Newark (New Jersey)

Subject Areas:

Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-2091

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:28PM