Public Transit Planning and Operation: Modeling, Practice and Behavior, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9780367867607 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 742 str.

Avishai Ceder

Opis

This book examines the main components affecting the viability of a public-transport service from both the passenger and agency perspectives, and offers solutions to well-known problems in the field. This second edition establishes a bridge between the world of practitioners and the world of research and academia. It presents new material on the

Recenzje

"The book is aimed squarely at transit researchers and practitioners. It fills an important void in the literature, as most existing material is exclusively quantitative or qualitative. This book bridges both, and leaves the reader with a sense of satisfaction and a desire to learn more about the topics at hand. The spirit of the first edition remains alive, with applied operations research as the vehicle through which most discussions are presented."
—Professor Daniel A. Rodriguez, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

"... a single text that covers the full set of issues in transit operations and planning… includes concepts from theory and methodologies from practice... not only for students of transportation engineering and city planning at universities and in professional courses, as well as for transit agency managers and consultants, but also for PhD students and researchers."
—Professor Agostino Nuzzolo, Tor Vergata University of Rome

Spis treści

Introduction to transit-service planning. Data requirements and collection. Frequency and headway determination. Timetable development. Advanced timetables: Optimization and synchronization. Vehicle scheduling I: Fixed schedules. Vehicle scheduling II: Variable schedules. Vehicle type and size considerations in vehicle scheduling. Crew scheduling. Passenger demand. Route choice and assignment. Service design: Elements, operational parking, and stop location. Coordination and connectivity: Measures and analysis. Coordination and connectivity: Behavioral aspects. Network (routes) design. Designing short-turn trips. Smart shuttle and feeder service. Service reliability. Operational strategies and tactics. Future developments in transit operations. Answers to exercises.

O autorze

Avishai (Avi) Ceder received his PhD in 1975 at the University of California at Berkeley, and he is professor and chair of transportation at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and at the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. He frequently delivers courses on public-transit operations planning in Asia, Europe, Australasia, and the United States. His research and implementation interests in the subject stem from being a bus driver for four years for a large bus company.