Estimation of alighting counts for public transportation vehicle occupancy levels using reverse direction boarding
In order to improve the performance of a public transport system, it is important to know alighting counts as well as boarding counts at bus stops. While boarding is almost always available through a fare collection system, public transport systems usually do not count alighting passengers. This is...
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| description | In order to improve the performance of a public transport system, it is important to know alighting counts as well as boarding counts at bus stops. While boarding is almost always available through a fare collection system, public transport systems usually do not count alighting passengers. This is either due to the overhead that may be required for passengers at exit or the installation of relatively expensive Automatic Passenger Counters (APC) counters at each vehicle. Therefore, such expensive deployments are mostly not encountered in public-transport systems. In our research, for round trip lines that are balanced in daily passenger counts on both forward and backward routes, the alighting counts of a target route are inferred using only the daily boarding data. Vehicle occupancy levels are determined on a trip basis owing to the characteristic boarding pattern of each line. The validity of the proposed method was determined and verified using video recordings of arbitrarily selected trips. Consequently, it may be possible to modify scheduling algorithms to improve vehicle fleet utilization and increase passenger comfort in public transportation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a46f212d0cdb4b07becc57802b990d152023-10-22T04:48:15ZengElsevierJournal of Public Transportation2375-09012023-01-0125100070Estimation of alighting counts for public transportation vehicle occupancy levels using reverse direction boardingKamer Özgün0Melih Günay1Doruk Başaran2Joseph Ledet3Antalya Bilim University, Turkey; Corresponding author.Akdeniz University, TurkeyAkdeniz University, TurkeyAkdeniz University, TurkeyIn order to improve the performance of a public transport system, it is important to know alighting counts as well as boarding counts at bus stops. While boarding is almost always available through a fare collection system, public transport systems usually do not count alighting passengers. This is either due to the overhead that may be required for passengers at exit or the installation of relatively expensive Automatic Passenger Counters (APC) counters at each vehicle. Therefore, such expensive deployments are mostly not encountered in public-transport systems. In our research, for round trip lines that are balanced in daily passenger counts on both forward and backward routes, the alighting counts of a target route are inferred using only the daily boarding data. Vehicle occupancy levels are determined on a trip basis owing to the characteristic boarding pattern of each line. The validity of the proposed method was determined and verified using video recordings of arbitrarily selected trips. Consequently, it may be possible to modify scheduling algorithms to improve vehicle fleet utilization and increase passenger comfort in public transportation.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X23000310Vehicle occupancyAlighting countsOffboardingDestination inferenceSmart card |
| spellingShingle | Kamer Özgün Melih Günay Doruk Başaran Joseph Ledet Estimation of alighting counts for public transportation vehicle occupancy levels using reverse direction boarding Journal of Public Transportation Vehicle occupancy Alighting counts Offboarding Destination inference Smart card |
| title | Estimation of alighting counts for public transportation vehicle occupancy levels using reverse direction boarding |
| title_full | Estimation of alighting counts for public transportation vehicle occupancy levels using reverse direction boarding |
| title_fullStr | Estimation of alighting counts for public transportation vehicle occupancy levels using reverse direction boarding |
| title_full_unstemmed | Estimation of alighting counts for public transportation vehicle occupancy levels using reverse direction boarding |
| title_short | Estimation of alighting counts for public transportation vehicle occupancy levels using reverse direction boarding |
| title_sort | estimation of alighting counts for public transportation vehicle occupancy levels using reverse direction boarding |
| topic | Vehicle occupancy Alighting counts Offboarding Destination inference Smart card |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077291X23000310 |
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