Abstract: Transit capacity is arguably more complex than highway capacity. It deals with movement of both people and vehicles, depends on size of transit vehicles and how often they operate, and reflects the interaction between passenger traffic concentrations and vehicle flow. Quality of service reflects the transit-user perspective and should be measured by a quantitative measurement or prediction of how a transit route, facility, or system is operating under specified demand, supply, and control conditions. Thane city in Mumbai Metropolitan Region of Maharashtra State, India is the study area for this work. The GIS database for Thane was established by geo-referencing through GPS and digitization of satellite imageries. Various toolboxes for transit service quality measures have been developed in TransCAD, a transportation-planning package in GIS platform. The code for all the tools is written using GIS Developer’s Kernel available with TransCAD. All the above tools are developed as add-ins in TransCAD. This paper presents the details of various tools of transit service measures developed as a part of transit route information system. It is concluded that the developed GIS tools for quality of service will become more meaningful if the geographic data is digitized at dwelling unit level.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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