Demi-flexible operating policies to promote the performance of public transit in low-demand areas |
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| Institution: | 1. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Urban ITS, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China;2. College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China;3. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park 20742, USA;4. Intelligent Transportation System Research Center, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China;1. Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal;2. INESC TEC, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal;1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA;2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA;1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Memphis, 3815 Central Avenue, Memphis, TN 38152, United States;2. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States;1. Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, United States;2. School of Naval Architecture, Ocean and Civil Engineering, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China;3. School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia |
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| Abstract: | The efforts of providing attractive transport service to residents in sparse communities have previously focused on operating flexible transit services. This paper identifies a new category of transit policies, called demi-flexible operating policies, to fill the gap between flexible transit services and conventional fixed-route systems. The passenger cost function is defined as the performance measure of transit systems and the analytic work is performed based on a real-world flag-stop transit service, in which we compare its system performance with another two comparable systems, the fixed-route and flex-route services, at expected and unexpected demand levels in order to be closer to reality. In addition, the dynamic-station policy is introduced to assist the flex-route service to better deal with unexpectedly high demand. Experiments demonstrate the unique advantages of demi-flexible operating policies in providing affordable, efficient, and reliable transport service in low-demand operating environments and this work is helpful to optimize the unifying framework for designing public transit in suburban and rural areas. |
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| Keywords: | Public transit Demi-flexible operating policy Low demand Uncertain demand Transportation design |
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