Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
10-31-1992
Degree Name
Master of Science in Transportation - (M.S.)
Department
Executive Committee for the Interdisciplinary Program in Transportation
First Advisor
Lazar Spasovic
Second Advisor
Louis J. Pignataro
Third Advisor
Athanassios K. Bladikas
Abstract
This study presents a methodological approach for finding an optimal design of bus transit service in an urban transportation corridor with elastic demand and under various objective functions. Service design decision variables to be optimized include the route length, route density, headway, number of stops and stop spacing pattern. The objective functions that optimize the transit system design include: minimizing operator cost, maximizing profit, minimizing sum of operator and user costs and maximizing the users' net benefits.
The analysis uses an elastic demand function wherein the number of trips are sensitive to the quality of service provided and price charged by the transit system.
Several analytical models of transit service design are developed and presented in a form of case studies. Computer-aided optimization methods are used to derive the optimal solutions in each of the case studies.
Recommended Citation
Liu, Yongning, "Planning of optimal transit system design" (1992). Theses. 2416.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/2416
