Impact of Automated Vehicles on Optimal Demand-Responsive Feeder Transit Network Design

Abstract

This article aims to examine the economic benefits of automating flexible demand responsive feeder transit systems using a developed feeder bus routing optimization algorithm. The objective function of the algorithm is to minimize total passengers' and operating costs of the system. The results showed that when unit operating costs decline, total operating costs, and total costs obviously decline. Furthermore, when unit operating costs decline, the average passenger travel distance and total passenger travel costs decline while the ratio of total operating costs per unit operating costs increases. That means if unit operating costs decrease, the portion of passenger travel costs in the total costs increases, and the optimization process tends to reduce passenger costs more while reducing total costs. Assuming that automation of the vehicles reduces the operating costs, it will reduce not only total operating costs and total costs, but also total passenger travel costs.

El autobús autónomo: Análisis de percepción a través de variables latentes

“…Al objeto de comprender la aceptabilidad del vehículo y su conducción, se han desarrollado un gran número de estudios a través de encuestas online (Payre et al, 2014;Zmud et al, 2016), encuestas presenciales (Eden et al, 2017;Nickkar et al, 2021;Payre et al, 2014) y Focus Group o grupos de discusión (López-Lambas & Alonso 2019). Aunque, en líneas generales, la aceptación del vehículo autónomo es extensa y hay un amplio conocimiento en la materia por parte de la ciudadanía, no hay suficientes evidencias para trasladar estas afirmaciones al transporte público colectivo.…”