Maximizing net benefits for conventional and flexible bus services

Kim, Myungseob; Schonfeld, Paul

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2015.07.016

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“…The impact on energy consumption is even more substantial with a potential reduction of up to 20 % when dropping the selected bus and tram lines. 25 Compared to the base case, up to 31 % reduction in total energy consumption are possible through a combination of all measures described above.…”

Section: Public Transport Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Those findings extend earlier research by Li and Quadrifoglio [24], who define critical demand levels below which demand-responsive services serve demand more efficiently. Generalizing these insights to maximizing social welfare instead of minimizing operational costs, Kim and Schonfeld [25] presented an approach to define a welfare threshold between conventional and flexible services in systems with multiple dissimilar regions. The welfare-centric approach was also supported by Qiu et al [26], who suggest that minima of monetary cost may not correspond to a transport system-level optimum given that also MaaS fleets contribute to road congestion.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assessing the welfare impacts of Shared Mobility and Mobility as a Service (MaaS)

Becker

Balać

Ciari

2020

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

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Mobility as a Service (MaaS) aims to allow less biased mode choice decisions by overcoming market segmentation. To this end, all available modes are offered at their respective marginal cost for each trip. Such a setting favors shared modes, where fixed costs can be apportioned among a large number of users. In turn, car-sharing, bike-sharing or ridehailing may themselves become an efficient alternative of public transport. Although early field studies confirm the expected changes in behaviour, impacts have not been studied for larger transport systems yet. This research conducts a first joint simulation of car-sharing, bike-sharing and ride-hailing for a city-scale transport system using MAT-Sim. Results show that in Zurich, through less biased mode choice decisions, transportrelated energy consumption can be reduced by 25 %. In addition, introduction of shared modes may increase transport system efficiency by up to 7 %. Efficiency gains may reach 11 % if shared modes were used as a substitute for public transport in lower-density areas. Hence, a MaaS scheme with shared mobility allows to increase system efficiency (travel times & cost), while substantially reducing energy consumption.

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Section: Public Transport Integrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the welfare impacts of Shared Mobility and Mobility as a Service (MaaS)

Becker

Balać

Ciari

2020

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

123

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“…(1) Government benefit function The objective of government is to maximize social benefits. According to the economic theory [45][46][47], social benefits are comprised of producer surplus and consumer surplus. In order to maximize social benefits, the government provides a subsidy to the CR Express operator and supervises it.…”

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China Railway Express Subsidy Model Based on Game Theory under “the Belt and Road” Initiative

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China Railway Express (CR Express) is an emerging freight transport mode between China and Europe, which provides a new option in addition to air transport and ocean shipping. At the initial stage of development, due to the higher freight costs compared to ocean shipping, the government subsidy provided for the China Railway Express operator plays an important role in the process of market cultivation. The original intention of the government subsidy was to promote the rapid and sustainable development of China Railway Express and the further subsidy scheme should encourage China Railway Express operators to act towards the expected goal of the local government. This research is devoted to modeling and solving the problem of optimal subsidy amount in the operation of China Railway Express. Firstly, a subsidy model is established with the consideration of different objectives of local government and China Railway Express operator, which are affected by the operational effort level of the China Railway Express operator, actual freight rate and the highest freight rate that the shipper is willing to pay. Then, the validity of the proposed model is analyzed in the case study of the China Railway Express line (Wuhan-Hamburg). The effects of different subsidy amounts on the social benefits of local government and profits of the China Railway Express operator are analyzed and the sensitivity analysis is carried on the operational effort level of China Railway Express operator and the highest freight rate that shipper is willing to pay. The analysis results show that the optimal subsidy amount is between 2000 and 2500 USD per Forty-Foot Equivalent Unit (FEU). Finally, suggestions are proposed according to the analysis results. These findings can provide useful references for promoting the sustainable development of China Railway Express.

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“…The first form is exponential, presented in such studies as Evans [18], Yang and Huang [19], Lam and Zhou [20], Yang and Kin [21], and Bellei et al [22], Yao et al [23], Jørgensen et al [24], and Klier and Haase [25]. Works on the other form, the linear function, have been done by Chang and Schonfeld [26], Chien and Spasovic [27], Tsai et al [28], Savage [29], Li et al [30], Chen et al [11], and Kim and Schonfeld [31]. In these studies, two function forms have been proved to significantly reflect fluctuation of demand by changes in generalized costs of trips, though they are formulated in different expressions.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The different types of fare strategies are grouped into two basic categories: flat and differentiation. The flat one requires all passengers to pay the same fare, as studied by Evans [18], Chien and Spasovic [27], and Kim and Schonfeld [31]. When differential fare strategy is applied, passengers pay fare dependent on one or more factors, including length of trip, time of day, quality of service.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Optimization of Bus Line Fare and Operational Strategies Using Elastic Demand

Tang

Ceder

2017

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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An optimization approach for designing a transit service system is proposed. Its objective would be the maximization of total social welfare, by providing a profitable fare structure and tailoring operational strategies to passenger demand. These operational strategies include full route operation (FRO), limited stop, short turn, and a mix of the latter two strategies. The demand function is formulated to reflect the attributes of these strategies, in-vehicle crowding, and fare effects on demand variation. The fare is either a flat fare or a differential fare structure; the latter is based on trip distance and achieved service levels. This proposed methodology is applied to a case study of Dalian, China. The optimal results indicate that an optimal combination of operational strategies integrated with a differential fare structure results in the highest potential for increasing total social welfare, if the value of parameter related to additional service fee is low. When this value increases up to more than a threshold, strategies with a flat fare show greater benefits. If this value increases beyond yet another threshold, the use of skipped stop strategies is not recommended.

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Maximizing net benefits for conventional and flexible bus services

Cited by 30 publications

References 30 publications

Assessing the welfare impacts of Shared Mobility and Mobility as a Service (MaaS)

Assessing the welfare impacts of Shared Mobility and Mobility as a Service (MaaS)

China Railway Express Subsidy Model Based on Game Theory under “the Belt and Road” Initiative

Integrated Optimization of Bus Line Fare and Operational Strategies Using Elastic Demand

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