Management of Municipal Public Transport Vehicle Journeys by Using the PERT Method

Dariusz Masłowski, Kinga Kijewska and Ewa Kulińska
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Dariusz Masłowski: Faculty of Production Engineering and Logistics, Opole University of Technology, ul. Prószkowska 76, 45-267 Opole, Poland
Kinga Kijewska: Faculty of Economics and Engineering of Transport, Maritime University of Szczecin, ul. Pobożnego 11, 70-507 Szczecin, Poland
Ewa Kulińska: Faculty of Production Engineering and Logistics, Opole University of Technology, ul. Prószkowska 76, 45-267 Opole, Poland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 15, 1-18

Abstract: These days, seamless moving about a city is a determinant of the city’s competitiveness, and is decisive for the life quality in the city. Hence, taking care of appropriate traffic organisation is one of the major tasks of the city authorities. Development of optimal production and spatial interrelations, considering their costs, efficiency and scope of services rendered to individual entities, enables economic and ecological development of the region. Therefore, the issue of major importance for a city is implementing a transport policy that makes it possible to choose a specified method of development (transformation) of the existing transport system in such a way so that it is coherent with the adopted strategy for the city development. The purpose of a transport policy conducted by city authorities should be maintaining the functioning of the urban transport on at least a satisfactory level. The main purpose of the article is to present an innovative solution for optimising the journeys of public transport vehicles, using the PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) method. The method was developed on the basis of the research carried out in the city of Opole, Poland. The article presents a Multicriteria Model of Controlling the vehicles of the Municipal Public Transport-CVMPT) and the method implementation algorithm along with assumptions. The model presented in this article shows the possible way of optimising public transport systems operated in cities, taking into account the travel time of any given bus service, based on normal distribution and the computed probability of such traffic. The application of the method has brought many positive effects through providing optimisation measures in the structure of the municipal public transport.

Keywords: city logistics; telematics; PERT method; optimization; public transport; security management; critical path; CVMPT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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