Title :
Dynamic transport services using flexible positioning of bus stations
Author :
Mukai, Naoto ; Watanabe, Toyohide
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. & Social Informatics, Nagoya Univ., Japan
Abstract :
In these years, a dynamic transport service which is called demand-bus system by using the contemporary realtime location technologies is focused by public administrations. The most important feature of the services is on-demand processing; i.e., customers can call transport vehicles anytime and get on/off anywhere. However, in the existing circumstances, the demand-bus system is still on the developing stage. In this paper, we classify the demand-bus system into two types: semi-demand and full-demand, on the basis of bus station types. Moreover, we propose methods to solve the real-time problems, (i.e., assignment and scheduling problems), in the demand-bus system by using anticipated future routes of transport vehicles. Finally, we report simulation results and consider effectiveness and possibility of the demand-bus system in an urban area.
Keywords :
public administration; road vehicles; scheduling; traffic engineering computing; assignment problem; bus station; demand-bus system; dynamic transport service; flexible positioning; full-demand bus system; on-demand processing; public administration; realtime location; scheduling problem; semi-demand bus system; transport vehicles; vehicle routing; Cities and towns; Informatics; Information science; Intelligent transportation systems; Profitability; Real time systems; Routing; Scheduling; Urban areas; Vehicle dynamics;
Conference_Titel :
Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 2005. ISADS 2005. Proceedings
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8963-8
DOI :
10.1109/ISADS.2005.1452063