Planning Skip-Stop Transit Service under Heterogeneous Demands

DOI10.1016/J.TRB.2021.06.008arXiv2011.12674MaRDI QIDQ6354544FDOQ6354544

Authors: Yu Mei, Weihua Gu, Michael J. Cassidy, Wenbo Fan 

Publication date: 25 November 2020

Abstract: Transit vehicles operating under skip-stop service visit only a subset of the stops residing along a corridor. It is a strategy commonly used to increase vehicle speeds and reduce patron travel times. The present paper develops a continuous approximation model to optimally design a select form of skip-stop service, termed AB-type service. The model accounts for spatially-heterogeneous demand patterns. An efficient heuristic is developed to obtain solutions. These are shown to be near-optimal for a variety of numerical examples. Results also indicate that optimal AB-type designs outperform optimized all-stop service in a variety of cases. The AB-type service is found to be especially competitive when travel demands are high, trip origins are unevenly distributed along a corridor, and patrons have relatively high values of time. In these cases, AB-type service is found to reduce system costs by as much as 8%.

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