A series hybrid city bus with diesel engine and electric batteries is studied on a specified route. The study uses two different basic control strategies, “On/off” and “Continuous” strategy. These basic strategies are complemented in two ways. First, an “Adviser” strategy which filters the driver commands and gives driver support feedback based on the route data. Second, an “Adapter” strategy, ...

In closed buses, the spread of droplets with viruses/bacteria may cause respiratory infectious diseases. Discrete phase modeling is used to simulate diffusion characteristics and concentration distribution at different temperatures exhalation positions by ANSYS FLUENT software. The integral locations can be quantified, which leads identification low-risk areas high-risk in bus. Results show tha...

The research represents one of the first major qualitative studies to subjectively investigate fatigue amongst city bus drivers. Funded by TfL (grant no. 94050), study considers perspectives both drivers themselves and their managers. It explores opinion specifically in relation how influences or is influenced driving, this managed. Data was collected from focus groups with (n = 65 drivers) one...

Cars can nowadays record several thousands of signals through the CAN bus technology and potentially provide real-time information on the car, the driver and the surrounding environment. This paper proposes a new method for the analysis and classification of driver behavior using a selected subset of CAN bus signals, specifically gas pedal position, brake pedal pressure, steering wheel angle, s...

Replacing conventional buses with electric is in line the concept of sustainable development. However, have disadvantages short driving range and high purchase price. Many cities must implement a semi-electrification strategy for bus routes. In this paper, bi-level, multi-objective programming model established collaborative scheduling problem vehicles drivers on route served by mixed fleet. Th...

Visually impaired people have difficulty accessing information about public transportation systems. Several systems have been developed for assisting visually impaired and blind people to use the city bus. Most systems provide only one-way communication and require high-cost and complex equipment. The purpose of this study is to reduce the difficulties faced by visually impaired people when tak...

Bus driver scheduling problem is one of most important and complex problem faced by many companies and bus terminals. This paper attempts to solve this problem using paramterless evolutionary algorithms, TLBO and JAYA algorithm. The objective of this paper is to assign the drivers to duty on a particular day and block duty by satisfying the constraints. Algorithms are tested on four randomly ge...

In the last years, the sensitive increase of congestion phenomena in the urban areas has produced important changes for the role reserved to the public transport. This should become the main tool to solve urban transport problem. Critical phase for the planning of the public transport system is the network design problem (determination of routes and associated frequencies). This step may affect...