TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrated transit services for minimum cost operation considering heterogeneous demand
AU - Chien, Steven I.Jy
AU - Ulusoy, Yavuz Y.
AU - Wei, Chien Hung
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by National Center for Transportation and Industrial Productivity at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (USA) and The National Cheng-Kung University Project of Promoting Academic Excellence.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In large metropolitan areas, public transit is a major mode choice of commuters for their daily travel, which has an important role in relieving congestion on transportation corridors. The purpose of this study is to develop a model which optimizes service patterns (SPs) and frequencies that yield minimum cost transit operation. Considering a general transit route with given stops and origin-destination demand, the proposed model consists of an objective total cost function and a set of constraints to ensure frequency conservation and sufficient capacity subject to operable fleet size. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed model, in which the demand and facility data of a rail transit route were given. Results show that the proposed model can be applied to optimize integrated SPs and headways that significantly reduce the total cost, while the resulting performance indicators are generated.
AB - In large metropolitan areas, public transit is a major mode choice of commuters for their daily travel, which has an important role in relieving congestion on transportation corridors. The purpose of this study is to develop a model which optimizes service patterns (SPs) and frequencies that yield minimum cost transit operation. Considering a general transit route with given stops and origin-destination demand, the proposed model consists of an objective total cost function and a set of constraints to ensure frequency conservation and sufficient capacity subject to operable fleet size. A numerical example is provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the developed model, in which the demand and facility data of a rail transit route were given. Results show that the proposed model can be applied to optimize integrated SPs and headways that significantly reduce the total cost, while the resulting performance indicators are generated.
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U2 - 10.1080/03081060.2010.512222
DO - 10.1080/03081060.2010.512222
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77957071215
SN - 0308-1060
VL - 33
SP - 605
EP - 624
JO - Transportation Planning and Technology
JF - Transportation Planning and Technology
IS - 7
ER -
