Pricing systems analysis of DRT systems

Abstract

Flexible Transport Systems are becoming more and more popular in the sector of public transportation. The reason for this is mainly the economic sustainability of these systems which is reached by minimising the empty routes and using the capacities in a highly effective way. FTS systems use modern minibuses which have better conditions in emission and environmental pollution than the old vehicles of operating Hungarian public transport services. The aim of this study is to examine the opportunities of pricing regimes used in FTS systems. Firstly the conventional pricing methods such as average pricing will be reviewed than the new systems such as and marginal cost based pricing. Later on their mixing is going to be analysed. In the study the structure of FTSs were similar to "dial-a-ride" systems which aimed to handle the highest level of flexibility.

Improving Traffic Flow Characteristics by Suppressing Shared Taxis Maneuvers

“…In many cities in Iran as in developing countries, shared taxi sometimes has more than 25% of all urban trips (Gholami et al, 2014). Fixed route, unscheduled operation, unlimited pick-up and drop-off locations, lack of designated stop locations, and share ride are common features of shared taxi (Gholami and Shariat, 2011), therefore, shared taxis are semi-flexible way of passenger transport (Andrejszki and Török, 2014;Horváth et al, 2013). A view of designated and undesignated taxi stop location is shown in Fig.…”