Optimal Skip-Stop Service Design of Bus Rapid Transit
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Chang, Yun-Chen
Abstract
Bus rapid transit (BRT) has been known for its characteristics of combining flexible operation of bus system and better service quality of rail system. Well-arranged BRT system successfully motivates people changing their travel mode and turns over a congested city to a green transport city, such as the BRT systems in Curitiba, Brazil and Bogota, Columbia. It is recognized from the successful systems that service arrangement based on BRT characteristics is crucial in planning and design of BRT system. This study aims to develop a mathematical model for service design of a BRT corridor in which both skip-stop fast bus and local general bus are included. Under a total cost minimization objective, the decision variables consist of the headways of skip-stop fast bus and local bus as well as the stop spacings of skip-stop fast bus and local bus. The relations between the decision variables and system parameters are also identified analytically. For verifying the model’s applicability, this study uses a typical city corridor as a case study. Numerical analyses were conducted. Study results have shown that the model proposed in this study can be used in planning and design of BRT system with function of skip-stop operation.
Subjects
Bus Rapid Transit
Skip Stop
Analytical Optimization Approach
Operation Planning
Type
thesis
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