This paper analyzes changes in passenger passenger activity and operating performance following implementation of a bus stop consolidation project at TriMet, the regional transit provider for the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. The study makes extensive use of archived bus operations and passenger activity data from TriMet’s automated bus dispatching system. Focusing on one of the first rou...

Models are formulated to predict the added vehicle and person delays that can occur when a bus stop is located a short distance upstream or downstream of a signalized intersection. Included in the set of models are those that predict the expected delays that cars collectively incur when a bus blocks one of multiple lanes while loading and unloading passengers at the stop. Others in this set pre...

With the deployment Automatic Vehicle Location systems to monitor transit vehicles (and other fleet vehicles), there have been several efforts in recent years that seek to leverage these data to also obtain arterial travel times for the private vehicle population. The fleet vehicle data capture the traffic conditions, but they also capture behavior unique to the fleet, e.g., servicing passenger...

This study examines the effects of overlapping walking service areas of bus stops on the demand for bus transit. This requires controlling for variation in potential transit demand as measured by the number of dwelling units and their locations. A model of passenger boardings for the morning peak hour of service is estimated. Boardings are modeled as a function of potential transit demand at th...

We consider curbside bus stops of the kind that serve multiple bus routes, and that are isolated from the effects of traffic signals and other stops. A Markov chain embedded in the bus queueing process is used to develop steady-state queueing models for two special cases of this stop type. The models estimate the maximum rate that buses can arrive to, and be served by the stop, and still satisf...

There are many decisions to make when trying to find the quickest way from one stop to another in bus system: the intermediate stop to go to next, the bus to board in order to go to this next stop, the bus to take at the next stop, and so on. In a transportation network where all buses run on time, the optimal decisions could be easily calculated by using a modified form of a standard shortest-...

in our country, school bus routes are determined by experiments of driver without considering the scientific optimum route and location. traversing additional routes will always result an increase in vehicle movements and fuel consumption and enormous costs. hence, this paper will study the school bus routing in tehran considering special students and a model will be presented to minimize trave...

The Surabaya City Government seeks to provide adequate public transportation such as the Bus. current condition on Gunung Anyar - Kenjeran route is that there no intermodal connectivity, so it hoped connectivity will increase demand for buses operating route. For this reason, research was conducted plan Microbus Stop a stop location if be used feeder Bus and determine range of services meet nee...

Buses are the unsung heroes of public transport in modern cities around the world in high, medium and low income countries. However, the bus system is usually cobbled by poor design which has resulted from poor understanding of how a busThis paper examines the impacts of the interactions between buses, passengers and traffic on bus operations, especially in relation to delays and capacity at bu...