Optimization of Transit Scheduling Combined with Short-Turn Service Based on Real-Time Passenger Flow

Abstract

In view of a series of problems, such as unable to meet the needs of passengers, high full load ratio or waste of carrying capacity on unbalanced passenger flow sections caused by the all-stop fleet scheduling in the urban public transit system, this paper proposed a bus combination scheduling strategy with considering short-turn service based on the imbalance coefficient of passenger flow and a method to determine the turning back point. A combined dispatching optimization model is established with the objective function of minimizing the total system cost which includes the waiting time cost of passengers, the congestion feeling cost and the operation cost of public transit enterprises. The headways of short-turn and all-stop scheme are optimized by the combined scheduling model, and the solution method is proposed. Taking Beijing No. A bus line as an empirical analysis object, the real-time passenger flow and vehicle data in a working day are collected and analyzed, and the optimized scheme of short-turn service combination scheduling is obtained. The results show that compared with the traditional all-stop fleet scheduling, the optimized short-turn service combination scheduling can reduce the fleet size by 4.9% and effectively improve the operation efficiency and system benefits.