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For the time being, the citizens in the metropolitan areas
aren''t quite satisfied with the public transportation system(
PTS) in the cities they dwell. One of the major
problems may be the inconvenient environment of transferring
facilities among the PTS''s. At the completion of High
Speed Rail (HSR) in the west corridor of Taiwan,
whether the connections between the PTS and HSR appropriately
may remind government agencies of cautiously
planning and designing integrated operational
strategies among transportation systems to improve efficiency
and to serve users better.
The primary purpose of the research is to integrate various
transportation systems by way of scheduling and proposed
operational strategies to minimize system users''
transfer time and/or the operators'' cost. The study evaluates
waiting times at different levels of headway by using
deterministic arrival/departure time patterns of PTS at first.
The probabilistic arrival/departure time patterns are also
selected to test the proposed models in terms of
transportation system transferring time and operator cost.
Through the coordination of headway among various
transportation systems, system operators may design
appropriate operational strategy and system users may adjust
themselves to fit the schedule and minimize their
transferring time.
For the purpose of testing an illustrating the proposed
intermodal integration, the scope of the study includes the
of High Speed Rail System, the Blue Line of TaoYuan
Rapid Transit System, and relevant feeder bus systems at
stations. Various scenarios are prescribed as well,
including the optimization on scheduling of the rapid transit
system itself, of both the HSR the rapid transit system, of the
rapid transit systems associated with its feeder bus
systems, and of the total system. For each scenario, an
integrated scheduling model for the selected public
transportation systems is formulated. Some
scenarios are calibrated and analyzed with time value and tested
with sensitivity analysis. It is concluded that the proposed
models be feasible and integrated.
Keyword: deterministic, headway, integrated scheduling, optimize
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