Method to Calculate Dynamic Accessibility of Urban Bus Rapid Transit System

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10.2991/icitmi-15.2015.145How to use a DOI?

Keywords

transit; dynamic accessibility; enhanced two-step floating catchment technique; bus rapid transit; distance-decay function

Abstract

Bus rapid transit (BRT) is an important transit mode in the urban transportation system, especially in improving the urban transit’s operating efficiency. The accessibility of BRT is an important factor to measure its service level, however, most existing methods of calculating the accessibility can hardly reflect its real-time changes due to the lack of consideration for the time-varied vehicle capacity or the passenger’s walking distance. Therefore, a new enhanced two-step floating catchment technique (E2SFCA) is proposed to calculate the dynamic accessibility instead of the traditional two-step floating catchment technique (2SFCA) by adding a distance-decay function. Two districts in Guangzhou, i.e. TianHe and HuangPu are presented as real-life examples to validate the effectiveness of E2SFCA. Based on the results, some conclusions and suggestions are provided to improve the service of BRT. The related results also confirm that E2SFCA has a significant advantage to the planning and operation of BRT.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rongge Guo
AU  - Jihua Hu
AU  - Wei Guan
AU  - Jie Xiong
PY  - 2015/10
DA  - 2015/10
TI  - Method to Calculate Dynamic Accessibility of Urban Bus Rapid Transit System
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Information Technology and Management Innovation
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 858
EP  - 867
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icitmi-15.2015.145
DO  - 10.2991/icitmi-15.2015.145
ID  - Guo2015/10
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