Advanced Modeling for Transit Operations and Service Planning

Description

While public transport or transit systems have been in existence much longer than road traffic systems, the mathematical analysis techniques so necessary for proper transit planning and operations have lagged far behind that of road traffic systems. For example, the body of literature available on the design of stopping schedules for urban rail lines is miniscule in comparison with the literature on the coordination of traffic signals along an urban road. On the other hand, transit professionals appear to have disregarded most of the wealth of insight that has been available in the literature for more than a decade. The literature on capacity constraint transit assignment models is one good example. However, public transport operators are faced with ever-greater pressure in competitive markets and congested transit systems, particularly during peak hour periods. Content:• Front Matter • Preface • Table of Contents 1. Initial Planning for Urban Transit Systems 2. Public Transport Timetabling and Vehicle Scheduling 3. Designing Public Transport Network and Routes 4. Transit Path Choice and Assignment Model Approaches 5. Schedule-Based Transit Assignment Models 6. Frequency Based Transit Route Choice Models 7. Capacity Constrained Transit Assignment Models and Reliability Analysis 8. DYNASMART-IP: Dynamic Traffic Assignment Meso-Simulator for Intermodal Networks 9. Modeling Competitive Multi-Modal Services 10. Modeling Urban Taxi Services: A Literature Survey and an Analytical Example 11. The Estimation of Origin-Destination Matrices in Transit Networks 12. Models for Optimizing Transit Fares