Print Email Facebook Twitter Evaluating the Impacts and Benefits of Public Transport Design and Operational Measures Title Evaluating the Impacts and Benefits of Public Transport Design and Operational Measures Author Fadaei, Masoud (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Cats, O. (TU Delft Transport and Planning) Date 2016 Abstract Design and operational measures are designed and implemented to improve public transport performance and level-of-service. In the case of urban bus systems, priority, operational and control measures are aimed to elevate bus services to buses with high level of service (BHLS). Even though there is an explosive growth in design and operational measures implementation and growing research interest in investigating their impact on performance indicators, there is lack of a systematic evaluation of their benefits. We present an evaluation framework and a detail sequence of steps for quantifying the impacts of public transport design and operational measures. The effects of service performance on travel times and costs are assessed by accounting for relations between reliability and waiting times, crowding and perceived travel times, and vehicle scheduling and operational costs. The evaluation integrates the implications of reliability on generalized passenger travel costs and operational costs. We deploy the proposed evaluation framework to a field experiment in Stockholm where a series of measures were implemented on the busiest bus line. The results suggest that the total passenger and operator benefits amount to 36.8 million Swedish crowns on an annual basis. The overall assessment of the impacts of design and operational measures enables the comparison of different implementations, assess their effectiveness, prioritize alternative measures and provide a sound basis for motivating investments. Subject Design and Operational MeasuresService ReliabilityEmpirical EvaluationBus with High Level of Service To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c9faa509-c360-4ce1-a513-41b34dc39c31 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2016.02.015 ISSN 0967-070X Source Transport Policy, 48, 105-116 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2016 Masoud Fadaei, O. Cats Files PDF Fadaei_and_Cats_2016_pre_print.pdf 1.1 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c9faa509-c360-4ce1-a513-41b34dc39c31/datastream/OBJ/view