Using simulation model as a tool for analyzing bus service reliability and implementing improvement strategies.

ABSTRACT: Bus services naturally tend to be unstable and are not always capable of adhering to schedules without control strategies. Therefore, bus users and bus service providers face travel time variation and irregularity. After a comprehensive review of the literature, a significant gap was recognized in the field of public transportation reliability. According to literature, there is no consistency in reliability definition and indicators. Companies have their own definition of bus service reliability, and they mostly neglect the passengers' perspective of reliability. Therefore, four reliability indicators were selected in this study to fill the gap in the literature and cover both passengers' and operators' perceptions of reliability: waiting time and on-board crowding level from passengers' p

SUBMITTER: Moosavi SMH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7205290 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature