DESIGNING PUBLIC TRANSPORT NETWORK AND ROUTES. IN: ADVANCED MODELING FOR TRANSIT OPERATIONS AND SERVICE PLANNING

Abstract

This chapter concentrates on the following two public transit route design parts: (a) design of routes at the network level, and (b) creating efficient operations of each route using a 'short-turn' strategy. The method presented in (a) generates all feasible routes and transfers which connect every place in the network to all others. The method has been designed as a tool for the planning of future public transit networks as well as the maintenance of existing ones; and it ensures flexibility by allowing the user to either input his own data or to run the analysis automatically. Part (b) presents a set of procedures to design efficiently individual public transit routes with trips that are initiated beyond the route departure point and/or terminated before the route arrival point; these trips are called short-turn trips. The discussion of the short-turn trips shows methods on how to improve and automate flexibility.

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