Improving Resilience of Bus Bunching Holding Strategy through a Rolling Horizon Approach
Providing public transportation with quality service is critical to attracting more passengers to the system. However, high-demand routes are prone to the so-called bus bunching -- a tendency of buses to group as a consequence of variations in travel times and demands. Bus holding is applied to overcome this effect. In this study, we present a novel method for bus holding in which the control law is based only on the buses' position using a computationally efficient rolling horizon approach. The method uses similar inputs as linear control approaches while not increasing significantly the computational time. However, the method overcomes key a weakness of the linear control approach thanks to the explicit constraint handling that always ensures the control action effectiveness. Simulation experiments in a validation case and a model-specific for a bus rapid transit line in Curitiba, Brazil showed a reduced holding time and improved resilience, delivering more than 20% reduction in delay time accounting for the on-board and station delays.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Office of Sustainable Transportation. Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357
- OSTI ID:
- 1961176
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems, Journal Name: Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 147; ISSN 2473-2907
- Publisher:
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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