Optimal public-transport operational strategies to reduce cost and vehicle's emission.

ABSTRACT: Public transport passenger demand is inevitably made non-uniform because of spatial and temporal land use planning. This non-uniformity warrants the use of public transport operational strategies to attain operating efficiency. The optimization of these strategies is commonly being done from the operator perspective, and indirectly from the user perspective. However, the environmental perspective of these strategies, in terms of vehicle's emission, has not been investigated. This study proposed a methodology to analyze the benefits of using transit operational strategies to reduce operating cost and eventually also to reduce undesirable emissions. First, a strategy-based optimization model is established to minimize the number of transit vehicles required. Four candidate operational strate

SUBMITTER: Tang C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6070237 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature