The ferry movements across the river Hooghly, constituting the National Waterway-1 (NW-1) of India, are very significant owing to infeasible road bridge crossings. Sometimes the passengers of the ferry stations across it have to experience delays that have not been studied from a transportation planning perspective. The objective of this paper is to study the ferry journey time, passenger delays, reliability, vessel capacity and their variation and to provide some suggestive measures to control or minimize delay and improve the efficiency of the ferries from an operator’s perspective. Videographic data of total of 138 ferries are collected across six locations in NW-1 and the passenger, as well as ferry arrival and departure, are noted. Based upon these travel time reliability in the form of buffer time index for the journey time as well as waiting time at the ferry station is calculated. Furthermore, these parameters are studied after a hypothetical increase in vessel frequency. It is observed that different reliability parameters, capacity, and delay decrease with the frequency which indicates that ferries with smaller passenger capacity and higher frequency are found to be more time and capacity-reliable, to cater for a surge in demand in peak hours. The study outputs can suggest some measures from the passengers’ and ferry operators’ perspectives.
Passenger Delay and Journey Time Reliability Analysis of Ferry Transport Across Waterway: Case Study of National Waterway-1, India
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure Projects : Conception to Execution ; 2022 ; Haridwar, India September 14, 2022 - September 17, 2022
2023-07-01
11 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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