A proposal of a transport system connecting demand responsive bus with mass transit

This paper describes a new transport system to promote use of public transit for reducing traffic congestions. In this system, people living in a suburban area can commute to a major urban area by the new demand responsive buses proposed by the authors and mass transits. The cooperation between the two transport modes provides reduction of the total trip time for passengers. The simulation results showed that the system users get a trip time reduction relative to existing demand responsive buses using the insertion heuristic for their path planning without connection of other transport modes.