The impact of scheduling on service reliability: Trip-time determination and holding points in long-headway services

Public Transport

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-56

  van Oort, N ^a,b   Boterman, J W ^c   van Nes, R ^b  

^a Goudappel Coffeng Mobility Consultants   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c HTM Urban Public Transport   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Holding; Service reliability; Timetable design; Urban public transport

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL PATTERNS; DEPARTURE TIME; HISTORICAL DATA; HOLDING; REFERENCE SITUATION; SERVICE RELIABILITY; URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT;

OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING; TRAVEL TIME;

RELIABILITY;

EID: 84864139261     PISSN: 1866749X     EISSN: 16137159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12469-012-0054-4     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Abkowitz M, Josef R, Tozzi J, Driscoll MK (1987) Operational feasibility of timed transfer in transit systems. J Transp Eng 113: 168-177.
2. Carey M (1998) Optimizing scheduled activity times, allowing for behavioural response. Transp Res B 32(5): 329-342.
3. Cham LC, Wilson NHM (2006) Understanding bus service reliability, a practical framework using AVL/APC data, Washington, DC.
4. Chang J, Collura J, Dion F, Rakha H (2003) Evaluation of service reliability impacts of traffic signal priority strategies for bus transit. In: Transportation research record no 1841, Washington, DC, pp 23-31.
5. Chowdhury S, Chien S (2001) Dynamic vehicle dispatching at intermodal transfer station. In: Transportation research board 80th annual meeting, Washington, DC.
6. Furth PG, Muller ThHJ (2009) Optimality conditions for public transport schedules with timepoint holding. Public Transp 1(2): 87-102 doi: 10. 1007/s12469-008-0002-5.
7. Hansen IA (1999) Report VK4810: transport operation and management. TU Delft.
8. Levinson HS (1991) Supervision strategies for improved reliability of bus routes, synthesis of transit practice 15, National Cooperative Transit Research and Development Program. Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC.
9. Muller ThHJ, Furth PG (2000) Conditional bus priority at signalized intersections: better service with less traffic disruption. In: Transportation research record no 1731, Washington, DC, pp 23-30.
10. Muller ThHJ, Knoppers P (2004) Modal shift: the objective of improving transit quality. The contribution of off-line trip information to planning, operational control, process management and service information, TU Delft.
11. Muller ThHJ, Knoppers P (2005) TRIp time analysis in public transport. http://tritapt. nl/.
12. Strathman J, Kimple T, Dueker K, Gerhart R, Callas S (2002) Evaluation of transit operations: data applications of Tri-Met's automated bus dispatching system. Transportation 29: 321-345.
13. van Oort N (2009) International benchmark, reliability urban public transport, summary results. Report HTM and Delft University of Technology.
14. van Oort N (2011) Service reliability and urban public transport design. PhD thesis, Delft University of Technology.
15. van Oort N, van Nes R (2008) Improving reliability in urban public transport in strategic and tactical design. In: Compendium of papers TRB 87th annual meeting, Washington, DC, pp 1-17.
16. van Oort N, van Nes R (2009a) Control of public transport operations to improve reliability: theory and practice. In: Transportation research record, No 2112, pp 70-76.
17. van Oort N, van Nes R (2009b) Regularity analysis for optimizing urban transit network design. Public Transp 1(2): 155-168.
18. van Oort N, Wilson NHM, van Nes R (2010) Reliability improvement in short headway transit services: schedule-based and headway-based holding strategies. In: Transportation research record, No 2143, pp 67-76.
19. Wilson NHM, Macchi RA, Fellows RE, Deckoff AA (1992) Improving service on the MBTA green line through better operations control. In: Transportation research record 1361, TRB, National Research Council, Washington, DC, pp 296-304.