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Indexed by:期刊论文

Date of Publication:2015-01-01

Journal:PROMET-TRAFFIC & TRANSPORTATION

Included Journals:SCIE、Scopus

Volume:27

Issue:3

Page Number:205-216

ISSN No.:0353-5320

Key Words:transit; service reliability assessment; extra buses scheduling strategy; heuristic algorithm

Abstract:This paper presents a dynamic extra buses scheduling strategy to improve the transit service of transit routes. In this strategy, in order to decide when to dispatch an extra bus, the service reliability of transit route is assessed firstly. A model aimed at maximizing the benefit of the extra buses scheduling strategy is constructed to determine how many stops extra buses need to skip from the terminal to accommodate passengers at the following stops. A heuristic algorithm is defined and implemented to estimate the service reliability of transit route and to optimize the initial stop of extra buses scheduling strategy. Finally, the strategy is tested on two examples: a simple and a real-life transit route in the Dalian city in China. The results show that the extra buses scheduling strategy based on terminal stops with a reasonable threshold can save 8.01% waiting time of passengers.