Abstract
Bus transportation is the essential mode of public transportation available for intra-district movements in India. The planning of different stages of bus transportation planning is usually done in an ad-hoc manner on the basis of the experience of the operators. For a rational design of the bus transit system, it is essential to take into account the objectives of different interest groups. Selection of an appropriate network structure is an essential part of the planning process. In this paper, a model developed for generating a number of alternative network structures using link deletion concept is presented. One of these alternatives can be selected on the basis of the trade-off between the user and operator objectives. The model has been applied to a case study of bus transit network of Visakhapatnam region in Andhra Pradesh.
Highlights
The planning of regional bus routes that operate in India is based mostly on the experience of the operator, public or private
This paper presents a model for passenger flow concentration with multiple objectives
This paper presented a mathematical model for passenger flow concentration
Summary
The planning of regional bus routes that operate in India is based mostly on the experience of the operator, public or private. In the regional bus transportation planning process, there are two major groups of stakeholders They are SRTCs or bus operators and the users. There is a need to develop a methodology for the planning of regional bus routes considering both users’ and operators’ interests. Passenger flow concentration is a stage of transit planning process that decides the network structure to be used before the selection of routes can be taken up. Denser (fine meshed) transit networks require more bus fleet as the number of routes will be more. In this case, the user can always be guaranteed travel on the shortest path while the operator has to run more number of routes.
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