Development of Level-of-Service Criteria based on a Single Measure for BRT in China
Bus rapid transit (BRT) has gained popularity as a cost-effective way of expanding public transit services, and its level of service (LOS) is receiving increasing attention. However, relatively little is known about the precise criteria that can consistently and objectively classify the LOS of BRT i...
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| author | Huo, Yueying Zhang, Jian Qiu, Feng Zhao, Jinhua |
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| description | Bus rapid transit (BRT) has gained popularity as a cost-effective way of expanding public transit services, and its level of service (LOS) is receiving increasing attention. However, relatively little is known about the precise criteria that can consistently and objectively classify the LOS of BRT into different levels. This paper introduces the measure of “unit delay” to develop BRT LOS criteria, defined as the sum of delays a bus experiences at stops and intersections and on a 100m link. Based on field surveys conducted on BRT in Changzhou, China, we obtained a unit delay data set and established BRT LOS criteria using Fuzzy C-means Clustering. The LOS criteria can be applied for operational, design, and planning analyses for BRT systems. A method to examine the operational conditions in spatial and temporal dimensions and pinpoint the service bottlenecks of a BRT system is presented. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1080942022-09-29T12:36:11Z Development of Level-of-Service Criteria based on a Single Measure for BRT in China Huo, Yueying Zhang, Jian Qiu, Feng Zhao, Jinhua Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Zhao, Jinhua Zhao, Jinhua Bus rapid transit (BRT) has gained popularity as a cost-effective way of expanding public transit services, and its level of service (LOS) is receiving increasing attention. However, relatively little is known about the precise criteria that can consistently and objectively classify the LOS of BRT into different levels. This paper introduces the measure of “unit delay” to develop BRT LOS criteria, defined as the sum of delays a bus experiences at stops and intersections and on a 100m link. Based on field surveys conducted on BRT in Changzhou, China, we obtained a unit delay data set and established BRT LOS criteria using Fuzzy C-means Clustering. The LOS criteria can be applied for operational, design, and planning analyses for BRT systems. A method to examine the operational conditions in spatial and temporal dimensions and pinpoint the service bottlenecks of a BRT system is presented. 2017-04-13T13:28:12Z 2017-04-13T13:28:12Z 2015 2015-06 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1077-291X 2375-0901 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108094 Huo, Yueying; Zhao, Jinhua; Zhang, Jian and Qiu, Feng “Development of Level-of-Service Criteria Based on a Single Measure for BRT in China.” Journal of Public Transportation 18, no. 2 (June 2015): 20–33. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1929-7583 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2375-0901.18.2.2 Journal of Public Transportation Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ application/pdf University of South Florida Zhao |
| spellingShingle | Huo, Yueying Zhang, Jian Qiu, Feng Zhao, Jinhua Development of Level-of-Service Criteria based on a Single Measure for BRT in China |
| title | Development of Level-of-Service Criteria based on a Single Measure for BRT in China |
| title_full | Development of Level-of-Service Criteria based on a Single Measure for BRT in China |
| title_fullStr | Development of Level-of-Service Criteria based on a Single Measure for BRT in China |
| title_full_unstemmed | Development of Level-of-Service Criteria based on a Single Measure for BRT in China |
| title_short | Development of Level-of-Service Criteria based on a Single Measure for BRT in China |
| title_sort | development of level of service criteria based on a single measure for brt in china |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108094 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1929-7583 |
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