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Analytical Determination of Optimal Transit Stop Spacing  

Park, Jun-Sik (서울대학교)
Go, Seung-Yeong (서울대학교)
Lee, Cheong-Won (서울시립대학교)
Kim, Jeom-San (경기개발연구원)
Publication Information
Journal of Korean Society of Transportation / v.25, no.3, 2007 , pp. 145-154 More about this Journal
Abstract
Determining stop spacing is a very important process in transit system planning. This study is involved in an analytical approach to decide the transit stop spacing. Transit stop spacing should be longer as 1) user access speed, 2) user travel time, and 3) dwell time increase, and shorter as 1) passengers (boardings and alightings) and 2) headway increase. In this study, a methodology is proposed to determine transit stop spacing to minimize total cost (user cost plus operator cost) with irregular passenger distribution (boardings and alightings) Without considering in-vehicle passengers, the transit stop spacing should be shorter in the concentrated sections of the passenger distribution than in others to minimize total cost. Through the conceptual analysis, it is verified that the transit stop spacing could be longer as the in-vehicle passengers increase in certain sections. This study proposes a simple practical method to determine transit stop spacing and locations instead of a dynamic programming method which generally includes a complex and difficult calculation. If the space axis is changed to a time axis. the methodology of this study could be expanded to analyze a solution for the transit service (or headway) schedule problem.
Keywords
Transit; Stop spacing; Stop location; Passenger distribution; Probability density function;
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