Coordination Method of a Regular Bus Route along a Bus Rapid Transit Corridor

摘要

Bus Rapid Transit has been considered an effective method to solve the traffic problems for its advantages of high speed, timeliness and efficiency. Therefore, the connection between BRT and regular bus is directly relevant to the development of city public transportation. The paper analyzes, from the viewpoint of the line network, the basic characteristics of jointly-planned coordination between BRT and Regular Bus Transit with use of system theory. For line network, the paper determines BRT as the public transit network's backbone, on this basis, making adjustments to the existing transportation network for achieving harmonization between them; the focus is a new method of regular transportation network, that establishes direct bus line and feeder bus route service scope and operation strategy optimization model in the BRT corridor, using minimum total cost of bus transit system as a function of the target, which is to achieve reasonable utilization of public transportation resources.