Bus Control Strategy Application: Case Study of Santiago Transit System

Buses have an inherent tendency to bunch due to randomness in passenger demand and congestion. Many sophisticated control strategies have been developed to reduce bus bunching, however, few of them have been implemented in high frequency real services. Building upon a control strategy comprised of a...

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Published in:Procedia computer science 2014, Vol.32, p.397-404
Main Authors: Lizana, Pedro, Muñoz, Juan Carlos, Giesen, Ricardo, Delgado, Felipe
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bus bunching
Bus control strategy application
Headway-based bus control
Real-time bus control
Transit operations
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Summary:Buses have an inherent tendency to bunch due to randomness in passenger demand and congestion. Many sophisticated control strategies have been developed to reduce bus bunching, however, few of them have been implemented in high frequency real services. Building upon a control strategy comprised of a rolling horizon mathematical programming model that yields the optimal holding time that minimizes user-waiting times6, we have developed real-time software and implemented it on two bus services in Santiago using different technologies to communicate the instructions to bus drivers. The results presented in this paper are encouraging, on the days the system was implemented less bus bunching was observed, which translated in fewer headway-irregularity fines. Moreover lower passenger fare evasion was observed when the bus control strategy was used.
ISSN:1877-0509
1877-0509
DOI:10.1016/j.procs.2014.05.440