Hybrid model for enhancement of passenger information management system

Munir Kolapo Yahya-Imam, Sellappan Palaniappan and Seyed Mohammadreza Ghadiri

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2018, vol. 19, issue 2/3/4, 270-288

Abstract: The current booking models (systems) used by interstate bus transport service providers (operators) in Nigeria have two major drawbacks: 1) poor management of traveller information; 2) high operating costs. Although attempts have been made to address these issues, the models are far from satisfactory. The booking (and reservation) processes are still cumbersome and time consuming. Thus, there is an urgent need for an enhanced booking model. This paper presents an improved model using Dijkstra algorithm (DA) and demand responsive transport (DRT) technique. The model has three components: services, techniques and service providers. A purposive and selective sampling technique was used to gather data from 20 interstate bus transport operators and analysis of the data confirmed the need for such an improved booking model.

Keywords: demand responsive transport; DRT; Dijkstra; heuristic; booking; reservation; bus transport. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=95426 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijnvor:v:19:y:2018:i:2/3/4:p:270-288

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().