Trading off costs, environmental impact, and levels of service in the optimal design of transit bus fleets

Pablo L. Durango-Cohen and Elaine C. McKenzie

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2018, vol. 114, issue PB, 354-363

Abstract: The development of a systematic framework to support the design of transit bus fleets is justified by the significant and long-lasting implications associated with decisions to purchase transit vehicles, as well as by developments in fuel propulsion and battery technologies over the last 2 decades that have increased the options available to transit operators, and, in turn, the complexity of assessing the corresponding tradeoffs. The need to evaluate these tradeoffs is, in part, driven by the emergence of environmental impact mitigation, i.e., emissions reductions, as a critical concern of transit operators and governments around the world.

Keywords: Bus fleeting; Fuel-propulsion technologies; Environmental design; Input-Output models; Linear programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2018.01.030

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