Maintenance Reliability index system and its analysis method of Public Transit

Abstract

The service reliability of the public transit is highly related with the occupancy rate of the urban public transit. Most existing research focus on waiting time, travel time, headway distribution, in-vehicle time, etc. but neglect the maintenance performance. For the current urban public bus, it is difficult and complex to improve reliability through improving planning and operation. The paper builds the index system on the maintenance reliability, and provides a analysis method for the service reliability of the public transit. The analysis method is a two-layer analysis method for the influence factors with index system, which includes the number of bus and station, the shut-down frequency, the stop frequency, the troubleshooting time etc. An example shows that the analytical approach is feasible, and it will be helpful for the improvement of the service reliability.