Modeling the First Holding and All Holding Control Strategy of Buses under Uncertainty

Document Type : Scientific - Research

Authors
Masoud mohammad hosein mirzaei 1
Abdolreza Sheikholeslami 2
1 M.Sc., Department of Road and Transportation Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Road and Transportation Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
10.22119/jte.2022.360498.2618
Abstract
In recent decades, due to the importance of keeping transportation system performance in the condition of disturbance at the desired level, a new definition has been provided to evaluate the performance of transportation system, which expresses the reliability of the system in conditions of uncertainty. Therefore, assessment the reliability of the performance of transportation system in their design or upgrading and reconstruction has become very important. To increase reliability, control strategies are used that reduce the waiting time of passengers at the station. The scenario of the absence of overtaking conditions of buses and the scenario of the presence of overtaking conditions of buses are introduced and a separate mathematical model is presented for each to determine the optimal holding time of buses at the stop so that the waiting time of passengers is minimized. Then, the constraint of the maximum holding time of buses in the condition of uncertainty (soft limit) and its effect on the objective function are evaluated. An assumed example has been used to investigate the impact of uncertainty on control strategies. Passenger waiting time results for different confidence levels for each strategy are given. In the first holding control strategy and all holding (first scenario), the waiting time of passengers increases with the increase of the confidence level, but in the all holding control strategy (second scenario), changes in the confidence level do not affect the objective function and the objective function is almost constant.
Keywords
reliability, control strategy, uncertainty
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Quarterly Journal of Transportation Engineering
Volume 17, Issue 1 - Serial Number 66
Autumn 2025
Pages 4995-5010

  • Receive Date 04 September 2022
  • Revise Date 24 October 2022
  • Accept Date 26 October 2022