Control of public transportation operations to improve reliability: Theory and practice

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2112, 2009, Pages 70-76

  Van Oort, Niels ^a   Van Nes, Rob ^b  

^a HTM Urban Transport Company   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY CONTROL; RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION; RELIABILITY THEORY; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-QUALITY PRODUCTS; LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM; NETHERLANDS; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; ROTTERDAM; THEORY AND PRACTICE; TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS; TRIP TIME; WAITING TIME;

VEHICLES;

EID: 76149108443     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2112-09     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. van Oort, N., and R. van Nes. RandstadRail: Increase in Public Transport Quality by Controlling Operations Proc., Second International Seminar on Railway Operations Research, Hannover, Germany, 2007.
2. Chowdhury, M. S., and S. I.-J. Chien. Dynamic Vehicle Dispatching at Intermodal Transfer Station. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No.1753, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2001, pp. 61-68.
3. Muller, T. H. J., and P. G. Furth. Integrating Bus Service Planning with Analysis, Operational Control and Performance Monitoring. Proc., ITS 10th Conference, Washington, D.C., 2000.
4. Furth, P. G., and T. H. J. Muller. Conditional Bus Priority at Signalized Intersections: Better Service with Less Traffic Disruption. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No.1731, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 2000, pp. 23-30.
5. Cham, L. C., and N. H. M. Wilson. Understanding Bus Service Reliability: A Practical Framework Using AVL/APC Data. MS thesis. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 2006.
6. van Oort, N., and R. van Nes. Reliability of Urban Public Transport and Strategic and Tactical Planning, A First Analysis. Proc., TRAIL Conference 2006, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2006.
7. van Oort, N., and R. van Nes. Service Regularity Analysis for Urban Transit Network Design. Presented at 83rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2004.
8. Operational Requests, RandstadRail. Transit Authority Stadsgewest Haaglanden, The Hague, Netherlands, 2003 (in Dutch).
9. Survey of Customer Satisfaction. Department of Research and Development, HTM, The Hague, Netherlands, 2007.
10. van Oort, N., and R. van Nes. Improving Reliability in Urban Public Transport in Strategic and Tactical Design. Presented at 87th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C., 2008.
11. Carey, M. Optimizing Scheduled Times, Allowing for Behavioural Response. Transportation Research B, Vol.32, No.5, 1998, pp. 329-342.
12. Israeli, Y., and A. Ceder. Public Transportation Assignment with Passenger Strategies for Overlapping Route Choice. In Transportation and Traffic Theory (J. B. Lesort, ed.), Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1996.
13. Wilson, N. H. M., R. A. Macchi, R. E. Fellows, and A. A. Deckoff. Improving Service on the MBTA Green Line Through Better Operations Control. In Transportation Research Record 1361, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1992, pp. 296-304.
14. Tahmasseby, S., R. van Nes, and N. van Oort. Public Transport Network Design and Reliability Proc., 3rd International Symposium on Transportation Network Reliability, The Hague, Netherlands, 2007.
15. Pangilinan, C. A., N. H. Wilson, and A. Moore. Bus Supervision Deployment Strategies and Use of Real-Time Automatic Vehicle Location for Improved Bus Service Reliability. In Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, No.2063, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2008, pp. 28-33.
16. TCRP Report 100: Transit Capacity and Quality of Service Manual, 2nd ed. Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2003.