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Author : Mark A. Turnquist
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (726 download)
Download or read book Strategies for Improving Bus Transit Service Reliability written by Mark A. Turnquist and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert S. Levinson
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Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Supervision Strategies for Improved Reliability of Bus Routes written by Herbert S. Levinson and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ehab Diab
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Urban Public Transportation Systems written by Ehab Diab and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Public transit systems offer essential services to the sustainability and livability of any city. My PhD research aims to develop ways of addressing the fundamental questions about how transit service improvement strategies can provide users with a better and reliable service that is positively perceived by the public. In light of these, this dissertation sets out to address several research questions:What are the areas of overlap and disconnect in understanding between the transit agencies and passengers perspectives regarding service reliability and the impacts of service improvement strategies? What are the benefits of implementing more than one improvement strategy for transit agencies? What will the passengers' immediate response to those strategies be? What are the impacts of implementing various improvement strategies on bus transit service variation? How do passengers' responses to those strategies change over time in terms of their estimation of their time savings? How can these findings be used to improve public transport planning and decision-making in the future?These questions are addressed through four studies using mixed-methods of research design and multi-stage approach. The mixed-methods design includes qualitative analysis and several forms of quantitative research. The multi-stage approach is based on the idea of each stage (or chapter) building on the previous one. A literature review that simultaneously addresses passengers' and transit agencies' perspectives on service reliability and the impacts of improvement strategies in an integrated manner is presented. Reviewing these two parts together provides a needed contribution to the literature from a practical viewpoint since it allows for the identification of gaps in the public transit planning and operations field in the area of reliability and the impacts of improvement strategies. In response to the identified gaps in the literature, I have conducted several investigations using a unique case study from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the Saint-Michel bus corridor. Saint-Michel is a heavily used bus corridor located to the east of Montreal's central business district. In an attempt to improve transit service on the island, Société de transport de Montréal (STM), the transit provider on the island of Montréal, has implemented a series of strategies over a period of three years. These strategies include using smart card fare collection, introducing limited-stop bus service, operating reserved bus lanes, using articulated buses, and implementing transit signal priority (TSP). This dissertation contributes to knowledge in four key ways:It identifies the gaps and overlaps between passengers' and transit agencies' perspectives regarding transit service reliability and the impacts of service improvement strategies, as well as a set of indicators and approaches that capture users' reactions to transportation planning decisions.It develops methodologies to deepen understanding of the collective effect of strategies and the synergies between them on the performance of transit systems.It develops methodologies to understand the impact of various strategies and their synergies on transit system variation.It deepens understanding of how people respond to these strategies and to what extent they overestimate their time savings, and how these estimated savings can change over time.By addressing these issues, this work explores an important gap in the current understanding of the relationship between passengers' perceptions and transit agencies' perspective and their implemented strategies." --
Author : David W. Maltzan
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Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Using Real-time Data to Improve Reliability on High-frequency Transit Services written by David W. Maltzan and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, automatically-collected data from many transit agencies have been made available to the public in real time. This has dramatically improved the experience of riding transit, by allowing passengers to use detailed information on the current state of service to make more informed travel decisions. The "open data" movement has allowed independent mobile-phone app developers to create a variety of useful tools to improve the passenger experience. However, agencies' use of real-time data for operational purposes has lagged behind customer-facing app development. This research examines the use of real-time data for the application of operational control strategies on transit services. Two high-frequency bus routes of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority are used as a case study. It begins with the development of an application to download, interpret, and present data on bus service and recommended control actions in a graphical user interface. This application is then used to conduct an experiment with a terminal-based holding strategy on MBTA Route 1. The results of this experiment drive further investigation into the causes of deviations from scheduled or assigned departure times at terminals. To supplement the experimental data, a simulation model of MBTA Routes 1 and 28 is developed. This simulation is used to test additional control strategies, as well as the effect of reducing unexplained operator deviations from assigned departure times. The research finds that real-time data can be used to create significant operational improvements. In particular, holding strategies at terminals, along with reducing unexplained operator deviations from assigned terminal departure times, have a strong effect. Several specific recommendations are made for a number of strategies that the MBTA can use to improve the precision of terminal departure times on bus services. This research also finds that holding at midpoints and short-turning can provide some additional benefit, but the costs and benefits to passengers of these strategies are more complicated and should be investigated with further research and implemented using optimization schemes rather than the heuristic rules used here.
Author : Steven Blume
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Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Improving the Reliability of Bus Service written by Steven Blume and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Transit Service Reliability Problem and Potential Solutions written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark A. Turnquist
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Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Control of Service Reliability in Urban Bus Networks written by Mark A. Turnquist and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark A. Turnquist
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Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Control of Service Reliability in Transit Networks written by Mark A. Turnquist and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerome A. Needle
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
ISBN 13 : 9780309060134
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Improving Transit Security written by Jerome A. Needle and published by Transportation Research Board. This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the nature and extent of transit crime, effective strategies to combat problem situations, and case studies of specific control practices deemed successful by transit agency professionals (with no distinctions drawn between bus and rail modes) are discussed.
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Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Developing a Guide to Bus Transit Service Reliability written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three major perspectives on transit reliability: from the customer, agency, and operator points of view. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Web-Only Document Developing a Guide to Bus Transit Service Reliability finds, through a transit agency survey, that most agencies do not have a formal bus service reliability improvement program. The guidebook presents a framework for such a program, including eight steps, and is a supplemental report to TCRP Research Report 215: Minutes Matter: A Bus Transit Service Reliability Guidebook.
Author : Larry S. Englisher
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Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Minneapolis-St. Paul Transit Service Reliability Demonstration written by Larry S. Englisher and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Association of City Transportation Officials
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610917472
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Transit Street Design Guide written by National Association of City Transportation Officials and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Transit Street Design Guide sets a new vision for how cities can harness the immense potential of transit to create active and efficient streets in neighborhoods and downtowns alike. Building on the Urban Street Design Guide and Urban Bikeway Design Guide, the Transit Street Design Guide details how reliable public transportation depends on a commitment to transit at every level of design. Developed through a new peer network of NACTO members and transit agency partners, the Guide provides street transportation departments, transit operating agencies, leaders, and practitioners with the tools to actively prioritize transit on the street."--Site Web de NACTO.
Author : Rajib Sikder
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Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (918 download)
Download or read book Reliability Assessment and Improvements Along a Bus Corridor written by Rajib Sikder and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Service reliability is an important indicator of transit performance, and has been the subject of much attention in both the research and practice for decades. Reliability of bus service depends on variations in service characteristics such as travel time, schedule adherence, headway, and wait time. As a fundamental property of bus service, reliability determines services' cost and attractiveness to existing and potential passengers. It is important to the transit agency for resource planning and operation. In this study, two frameworks are developed to assess and improve bus route service reliability. The reliability of a bus route is assessed by measuring variations in service characteristics, and this can be achieved through: 1) selection of performance measures, 2) evaluation of selected measures, and 3) calculation of selected measures. 16 performance measures are selected after conducting a comprehensive literature review, 12 of which are for the assessment of reliability, and 8 for service efficiency. The 16 measures are evaluated with respect to interested party (agency, operator & passenger), service type (high & low frequency service), and analysis level (stop, corridor, route & network). The assessment framework is applied to Route 1 in the City of Edmonton. Historical Route 1 performance data is collected from the Automatic Passenger Counter (APC) database of Edmonton Transit System (ETS). The overall results of estimated measures indicated that a set of performance measures can reflect reliability from every aspect. It was observed that some measures show that Route 1 is reliable, while some indicate unreliability of Route 1. It is also observed that performance of Route 1 during peak periods is worse than off-peak periods. A reliability improvement process through bus route scheduling is also introduced. A schedule-based holding strategy was tested, where early buses with slack time are hold at the timing point until scheduled departure time. In this strategy, slack time is determined from a stochastic optimization model, where the objective is to minimize schedule deviation as well as variation in schedule deviation. Slack time is incorporated into the scheduled departure time. Thus, early buses are required to depart at scheduled departure time. Besides schedule-based holding strategy, transit signal priority (TSP) is also used to improve reliability. In this study, the schedule-based holding strategy is also applied to a bus corridor that has TSP. The application of new schedules that incorporate the holding strategy on bus Route 1 along a corridor with active TSP, in simulation, appears to improve the reliability and efficiency of the bus service.
Author : Christopher Allan Pangilinan
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Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Bus Supervision Deployment Strategies for Improved Bus Service Reliability written by Christopher Allan Pangilinan and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Cont.) Based on these assessments, a system level personnel deployment strategy is developed and then evaluated. Two case studies - the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Route 20 and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Silver Line - are presented as applications of the proposed framework. Findings suggest that personnel deployment at both agencies is suboptimal: both agencies deploy too many post supervisors given current resource levels, and for the CTA, too few mobile supervisors. Findings also suggest that putting increased information and communication resources in place should lead agencies to have post supervisors only at the busiest most critical locations, mobile supervisors for incident response and reallocate many field-based supervisors to the control center for headway and schedule management.
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Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book Minutes Matter written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transit reliability is critical to the operation and attractiveness of public transportation services. With the current unprecedented evolution in transportation services, including new competition from mobility service providers such as Uber and Lyft, improving transit reliability has taken on an even greater level of importance. The TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Research Report 215: Minutes Matter: A Bus Transit Service Reliability Guidebook details eight steps that a transit agency can undertake to develop and maintain a Reliability Improvement Program. There is also a Power Point presentation that provides an overview of the project accompanying the report.
Author : United States. Department of Transportation
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Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book DOT-RSPA-DPB. written by United States. Department of Transportation and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vukan R. Vuchic
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119488893
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Urban Transit written by Vukan R. Vuchic and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only modern text to cover all aspects of urban transit operations, planning, and economics Global in scope, up-to-date with current practice, and written by an internationally renowned expert, Urban Transit: Operations, Planning, and Economics is a unique volume covering the full range of issues involved in the operation, planning, and financing of transit systems. Presenting both theoretical concepts and practical, real-world methodologies for operations, planning and analyses of transit systems, this book is a comprehensive single-volume text and reference for students as well as professionals. The thorough examination of technical fundamentals and management principles in this book enables readers to address projects across the globe despite nuances in regulations and laws. Dozens of worked problems and end-of-chapter exercises help familiarize the reader with the formulae and analytical techniques presented in the book's three convenient sections: Transit System Operations and Networks Transit Agency Operations, Economics, and Organization Transit System Planning Visually enhanced with nearly 250 illustrations, Urban Transit: Operations, Planning, and Economics is a reliable source of the latest information for transit planners and operators in transit agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, city governments, consulting firms as well as students of transportation engineering and city planning at universities and in professional courses.
