Computer Generated Time-Tables and Bus Schedules for a Large Bus Transport Network

N. Seshagiri, R. Narasimhan, S. L. Mehndiratta and B. K. Chanda
Additional contact information
N. Seshagiri: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India
R. Narasimhan: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India
S. L. Mehndiratta: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India
B. K. Chanda: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India

Transportation Science, 1969, vol. 3, issue 1, 69-85

Abstract: This report describes a method developed for analyzing a large bus transport on a digital computer with a view to improving the utilization of buses and the duty allocation for the crew without making elaborate structural changes in the existing setup. With the a priori statistics concerning the alighting and boarding of passengers at each stage of a route for different times of the day and the a posteriori statistics concerning the waiting time of the passengers at various stages of the route as the information supplied by the transport organization, a computer program has been developed to realize time-tables and bus schedules that can optimize the fixed plus variable cost of operation subject to the requirements and constraints imposed on the optimization procedure by the passengers, the crew, and the management.

Date: 1969
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/trsc.3.1.69 (application/pdf)

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:inm:ortrsc:v:3:y:1969:i:1:p:69-85

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Transportation Science from INFORMS Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Asher ().