Abstract
Improving the sharing rate of public transportation is an important content for the sustainable development of urban transportation. However, bus bunching, a common phenomenon during transit operation, makes negative effects on reliability and service level of the bus system. In most urban centers in China, many bus lines usually serve in a corridor. Different buses may interact with each other in the corridor, which may aggravate the bus bunching. However, previous studies on bus bunching focused on single bus service. In addition, with the popularization of bus data acquisition and the maturity of data processing methods, the accuracy of bus bunching research meets more opportunities. In this paper, we proposed a holding strategy based on two-bus cooperative control. A simulation was carried out after preliminarily processing and analyzing the bus operation data of Foshan, Guangdong City. In the simulation, we compared the performance of three different scenarios, which are before control strategy, under the strategy for a single bus line and under the coordinated strategy for multiple bus lines. We contrastively analyze the results of the two strategies from different aspects. The results show that in aspects, such as holding a frequency, holding time, the total running time and the influence on the other bus line, the cooperative holding strategy manifests better. It illustrates that it is meaningful to do such a research on the effect of corridor service on bus bunching and add this effect into traditional holding strategy to build a multi-bus cooperative control strategy. The results have important theoretical significance for enriching and completing existing theory and methods of transit system and practical value for improving the service level and attractiveness of buses, increasing the share rate of public transportation, and thus, promoting the sustainable development of cities.
Highlights
With the acceleration of China’s urbanization process, the urban population and the number of cars increase rapidly
The main objective of our work is to study the impacts of single-line control strategy versus coordinated control strategy in the common corridor
In this paper, based on the bus big data, this paper conducts a study on bus bunching between two bus lines with a common corridor
Summary
With the acceleration of China’s urbanization process, the urban population and the number of cars increase rapidly. Traffic congestion has gradually become a major bottleneck restricting the development of cities. The share rate of regular buses is decreasing year by year. This is because there are more interference factors during the operation of regular buses, resulting in its poor stability, poor punctuality, and as a result, the phenomenon of bus bunching. Many researchers have studied the occurrence mechanism and improvement strategies of bus bunching, most of which are based on a single bus line. Buses of different bus routes interact with each other in the common corridor, which may affect the implementation effect of the improvement strategy for a single bus line. It is necessary to propose a coordinated improvement strategy for multi-line buses
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