Passenger arrival rates at public transport stations

Modelling Passengers' Arrivals at Public Transport Stops

“…1a -1b. In accordance with [9], the logarithmic dependence seems to be a better approximation of the relationship between the examined random variables.…”

“…When a transportation service operates with long headways, passengers do not arrive at stops randomly but they tend to arrive few minutes before the planned vehicle departure. Previous studies performed in Europe in the 1970s [9] and in the U.S.A. [4] were aimed at the determination of the minimum headway with nonrandom arrival pattern and the model for the relationship between the waiting time and the headway. The headway threshold varied from 5 to 12 minutes and the models were linear or quadratic.…”

“…The headway threshold varied from 5 to 12 minutes and the models were linear or quadratic. The recent European study was carried out in Zürich by Luethi et al [9]. Passengers were supposed to belong to one of two groups: those who were familiar with the schedule and those who did not know the schedule.…”