Title: PUBLIC TRANSPORT SCHEDULING. IN: HANDBOOK OF TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND TRAFFIC CONTROL
Abstract: In public transport scheduling, schedulers attempt to create timetables and to allocate vehicles and crew in the most efficient manner possible. This paper presents an overview of the methodologies in railway, bus and passenger ferry scheduling. Scheduling for these modes differs from airline scheduling, which is not addressed in detail in this paper, because the timetable in airline scheduling is developed first and the routing afterwards. The railway, bus and passenger ferry operational planning process includes four basic components: network route design, setting timetables, scheduling vehicles to trips and crew assignment. The current planning process is extremely cumbersome and complex, and the components are often addressed separately rather than simultaneously. New technology would allow most of these scheduling tasks to be performed automatically or in an interactive human-computer mode, which would lead to more efficient, controllable and responsive schedules.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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