Analysis of a Flexible Transit Network in a Radial Street Pattern
Joint Authors
Source
Journal of Advanced Transportation
Issue
Vol. 2020, Issue 2020 (31 Dec. 2020), pp.1-15, 15 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2020-01-17
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
15
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Traditional transit systems are usually composed of fixed routes and stops, which are suitable in densely populated areas.
This paper presents a reformulation of the flexible transit model developed by Nourbakhsh and Ouyang (2012) to adapt it to many low demand cities in the world, especially those characterized by radial street patterns.
Unlike traditional ones, buses of the proposed transit network are allowed to traverse in a predetermined service area and their precise trajectories hinge on the exact locations of passengers.
To identify the optimal topology structure of the flexible transit system, continuous approximation approaches are developed to explore the optimal value of design parameters of the whole system, defining the optimal network layout through minimizing its objective function.
To exhibit its advantages, numerical experiments are conducted to compare the flexible transit system with its two variants.
The results show that the flexible transit system proposed in this paper outperforms the other two variants.
The higher the access cost is, the more it would tilt towards the flexible transit system with a significant margin.
Besides, the flexible transit system in a radial pattern competes more effectively than that in a grid structure.
This is encouraging because the proposed transit system can be applied in a number of real-world cases.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Shi, Hongguo& Gao, Mingyao. 2020. Analysis of a Flexible Transit Network in a Radial Street Pattern. Journal of Advanced Transportation،Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1175740
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Shi, Hongguo& Gao, Mingyao. Analysis of a Flexible Transit Network in a Radial Street Pattern. Journal of Advanced Transportation No. 2020 (2020), pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1175740
American Medical Association (AMA)
Shi, Hongguo& Gao, Mingyao. Analysis of a Flexible Transit Network in a Radial Street Pattern. Journal of Advanced Transportation. 2020. Vol. 2020, no. 2020, pp.1-15.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1175740
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1175740