Abstract Service reliability is a key determinant of public transport performance. In the context of high-frequency urban lines, irregular service results with long waiting times, bunched vehicles, long delays, uneven passenger loads, poor capacity utilization and higher operational costs. Field experiments were conducted in Stockholm, Sweden, in order to test the feasibility and implications of a regularity-driven operation scheme designed to mitigate bus bunching and facilitated by a real-time control strategy. This paper investigates alternative service indicators and business models that could best support the long-term implementation of operation geared towards better regularity performance. A paradigm shift towards regularity-based service evidently requires the consideration of a series of measures along the service chain as it involves a paradigm shift in production planning, operations, control center and performance monitoring.
Highlights A new regularity-driven operation scheme was tested in field experiments. The scheme reduced bus bunching, passenger waiting times and crowding. Regularity indicators are formulated and embedded into incentive schemes. The implications of the new scheme on the entire service chain are considered. Regularity-driven operations became a requirement in Stockholm.
Regularity-driven bus operation: Principles, implementation and business models
Transport Policy ; 36 ; 223-230
2014-01-01
8 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Regularity-driven bus operation: Principles, implementation and business models
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