• DocumentCode
    910810
  • Title

    Trip availability for rapid transit systems

  • Author

    Sacks, Ivan J.

  • Author_Institution
    University of California, Livermore, CA
  • Volume
    28
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1979
  • fDate
    2/1/1979 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    106
  • Lastpage
    113
  • Abstract
    Passenger acceptance of mass transit systems depends on predictable travel times. The major sources of travel time uncertainty are passenger wait delays due to system loading and travel time delays due to failures. The second of these effects is treated analytically. Travel time distributions are developed for a typical automated group rapid transit network with a passenger load of 14000 passengers per hour. In addition, an approximate availability solution is presented and compared to the analytic solution.
  • Keywords
    Availability; Costs; Delay effects; Delay systems; Failure analysis; Out of order; Routing; Transportation; Uncertainty; Vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9545
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-VT.1979.23776
  • Filename
    1622617