The planning and design of taxipooling on feeder system

Intelligent transportation system technology applied to public transportation can provide useful information to systems operators and users, and increase the use and productivity of high occupancy vehicles. Especially the integration of the MRT, feeder buses and taxipool can attract more potential public transportation users. Advanced taxipooling transfer assignment systems, one of the advanced public transportation systems (APTS) program, aims at applying advanced technologies to taxi operations including dynamic taxi fleet management, taxipool strategies and safety monitoring systems. This research first discusses the general planning rules of advanced transfer systems at transfer terminals. Secondly a dynamic taxipool dispatch model with stochastic demand is developed and a case study analysis with GIS is done to show the feasibility of the proposed methods. Finally, the proposed system with real-time and door-to-door taxipooling service can significantly increase the riderships on public transportation modes in urban areas.