Bus Scheduling in The City Of Surabaya Using Smooth Transition Method and Equal Average Load

Abstract

The Surabaya city’s government has experienced several problems regarding their transportation scheduling system that is still planned manually and does not meet passengers’ needs. Another issue that arises from the customer side is the lack of information on the public transportation schedule. The government is then developing a smart city project to reform the public transportation system, namely the Surabaya Intelligent Transport System (SITS). However, current system has not addressed the problem of resource management that makes bus scheduling less efficient. Therefore, this study aims to support SITS’s success and cope with the transportation problems by developing an application to automate bus schedule using the smooth transition method which works based on repetition of the same departure interval in each time, and average load method that consider the number of passengers in a period. The findings show that the proposed methods could generate bus timetable automatically and more efficiently compared to the existing timetable, e.g., reduce 50% of the number of buses.