Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transport Systems: COST Action TU1004 (TransITS)

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by  Guido Gentile

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Contents
Part I Public Transport in the Era of ITS - Francesco Viti
1 Public Transport in the Era of ITS: The Role of Public
Transport in Sustainable Cities and Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Xavier Roselló, Anders Langeland and Francesco Viti
1.1 Accessibility and Social Exclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2 City Structure and Its Growth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2.1 Urban Sprawl and Socio-economic
Transformations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2.2 Consequences of Expansion for the Transport
System. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.3 Energy Consumption and Efficiency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.3.1 Beyond Movement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.3.2 Primary Energy and Fossil Fuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.4 Externalities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.4.1 Greenhouse Gas Emissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.4.2 Other Pollutant Emissions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.4.3 Noise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.4.4 Congestion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.4.5 Consumption of Public Space. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.4.6 Safety and Security. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.5 Unit Mobility Costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
1.6 Mobility and Public Transport in European
Metropolitan Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.6.1 The EMTA Association. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
1.6.2 Some Mobility Indicators in Metropolitans Areas . . . . 20
1.6.3 Public Transport Subsidies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1.7 The Future of Transport and Mobility in Europe:
Smart Cities and Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
1.8 Reference Notes and Concluding Remarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
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2 Public Transport in the Era of ITS: Forms of Public
Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Kjell Jansson, Ingmar Andreasson and Karl Kottenhoff
2.1 Organisation and Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.1.1 Regulation Versus Deregulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.1.2 Integration Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.1.3 Public Transport Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
2.1.4 Multimodal Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
2.2 Vehicles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.2.1 Trains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
2.2.2 Buses and Coaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
2.2.3 Aircrafts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.3 Infrastructures and Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.3.1 Right of Way. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.3.2 Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
2.3.3 Topological Structures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
2.4 Service Performances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
2.4.1 Service and Stop Capacity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
2.4.2 Systems Speed—Boarding, Alighting
and Travel Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
2.4.3 Reliability, Punctuality, Regularity and Robustness . . . 64
2.5 Conventional and Unconventional Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
2.5.1 Complementary Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
2.5.2 High-Level Bus and Rail-Like Systems . . . . . . . . . . . 68
2.5.3 Demand-Responsive Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
2.5.4 Paratransit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
2.6 Automation and New Transport Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
2.6.1 Advanced Control for Rail Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
2.6.2 Automated Rail and Metro Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
2.6.3 Cable-Propelled Transport (CPT). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
2.6.4 Personal Rapid Transit (PRT). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
2.6.5 Automated Road Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
2.7 Reference Notes and Concluding Remarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
3 Public Transport in the Era of ITS: ITS Technologies
for Public Transport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Andrés Monzón, Sara Hernandez, Andrés García Martínez,
Ioannis Kaparias and Francesco Viti
3.1 ITS Solutions for Fleet Management. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
3.1.1 Infomobility Tools for Sustainable Fleet
Management (Craiova, Romania) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
3.1.2 Monitoring and Planning of Public Transport
Systems (San Sebastian, Spain). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
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3.1.3 CCTV Monitoring System on Public Transport
for Security Purposes (Lodz, Poland). . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
3.1.4 Consumption Monitoring and Ecodriving Training
(Forlì–Cesena, Italy) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
3.2 Integrated Management of Traffic and Public Transport
Prioritisation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
3.2.1 Transit Signal Priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
3.2.2 Bus Priority System (Toulouse, France). . . . . . . . . . . 95
3.2.3 Revolutionised Public Transport
with Dedicated Bus–Tram Lane (Warsaw, Poland) . . . 96
3.2.4 Bus Priority, the “Greenways Scheme”
(Edinburgh, Scotland) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
3.2.5 Speed Advisory Based on Signal Phase
and Time (SPaT) Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
3.3 Intermodal Services Coordination and Interchange Facilities. . . 98
3.3.1 Integrated Public Transport Guide
(Almada, Portugal) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
3.3.2 The Urban Mobility Website: Information
About Public Transport on Site (Sofia, Bulgaria). . . . . 101
3.3.3 Call-a-Bike: Public Bicycles in Germany . . . . . . . . . . 101
3.3.4 Multimodal Travel Planners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
3.4 Ticketing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
3.4.1 On-Street Ticket Vending Machines
(Norwich, UK). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
3.4.2 Development and Upgrade of the E-Ticketing
System (Brescia, Italy). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
3.4.3 The Viva Smart Card System (Lisbon, Portugal). . . . . 106
3.4.4 The Use of Ticket Validation for Transit Planning
Purposes (Barcelona, Spain). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
3.4.5 Using Ticketing Data for Improving Transit
Planning and Scheduling Services. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
3.5 Real-Time Information Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
3.5.1 Real-Time Countdown System (London, UK). . . . . . . 110
3.5.2 Real-Time Passenger Information at Bus
Stops (Lille Métropole, France). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
3.5.3 VAO, Traffic Information Austria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
3.5.4 Two-Way ICT Communications Through
Crowdsourcing Data Collection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
3.6 Development and Maturity Level of ITS in Europe. . . . . . . . . 114
3.6.1 Broad Overview of the State of Public Transport
ITS Deployment in Europe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
3.6.2 More Detailed Insight of Public Transport ITS
Deployment in Selected European Cities . . . . . . . . . . 120
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3.6.3 Discussion and Outlook of Public Transport ITS
Maturity and Deployment in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
3.7 Including ITS Factors in Transit Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
3.8 Reference Notes and Concluding Remarks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Part II From Transit Systems to Models - Klaus Noekel
4 From Transit Systems to Models: Purpose of Modelling. . . . . . . . 131
Markus Friedrich, Fabien Leurent, Irina Jackiva, Valentina Fini and
Sebastián Raveau
4.1 The Planning Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
4.1.1 States and Phases of a Transport Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
4.1.2 Public Transport Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
4.1.3 Scenario Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
4.1.4 Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
4.1.5 Reference Notes and Concluding Remarks. . . . . . . . . 158
4.2 Travel Demand Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
4.2.1 Basic Definitions and Notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
4.2.2 Models for Transport Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
4.2.3 Characteristics of Travel Demand Models . . . . . . . . . 162
4.2.4 Model Specification. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
4.2.5 Basic Model Formulation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
4.2.6 The Process for Model Calibration and Validation. . . . 177
4.2.7 Reference Notes and Concluding Remarks. . . . . . . . . 179
4.3 Psychological Factors Affecting Passenger Behaviour . . . . . . . 179
4.3.1 Some Basic Notions About Psychology. . . . . . . . . . . 179
4.3.2 Prospect Theory: A Descriptive Approach
to Decision-Making. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
4.3.3 Application of Prospect Theory in the Transportation
Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
4.3.4 Modelling Human Behaviour: Transtheoretical
Model of Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
4.3.5 Reference Notes and Concluding Remarks. . . . . . . . . 197
4.4 Discrete Choice Models. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
4.4.1 The Logit Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
4.4.2 The Nested Logit Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
4.4.3 The Mixed Logit Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
4.4.4 Kirchhoff Model and Box–Cox Model. . . . . . . . . . . . 209
4.4.5 Model Estimation and Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
4.4.6 Reference Notes and Concluding Remarks. . . . . . . . . 214
4.5 Mode and Route Choice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
4.5.1 Factors that Influence Mode and Route Choices . . . . . 215
4.5.2 Route Choice Set Generation Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . 216
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4.5.3 Route Choice Models with Correlation . . . . . . . . . . . 218
4.5.4 Urban Case Study: Santiago de Chile
Transit System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
4.5.5 Long-Distance Case Study: Stockholm
Regional Buses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
4.5.6 Reference Notes and Concluding Remarks. . . . . . . . . 230
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
5 From Transit Systems to Models: Data Representation
and Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Klaus Noekel, Guido Gentile, Efthia Nathanail and Achille Fonzone
5.1 Input: Demand and Supply. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
5.1.1 Travel Demand and Its Segmentation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
5.1.2 Transport Network and Transit Services. . . . . . . . . . . 240
5.1.3 The Example Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
5.1.4 Reference Notes and Concluding Remarks. . . . . . . . . 252
5.2 Output: Indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
5.2.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
5.2.2 Purpose of Indicators and Selection Criteria . . . . . . . . 255
5.2.3 Definition of Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
5.2.4 Displaying the Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
5.2.5 Reference Notes and Concluding Remarks. . . . . . . . . 262
5.3 ITS Data for Transit Assignment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
5.3.1 Data from Transit ITS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
5.3.2 ITS and Traditional Data Collection Techniques. . . . . 267
5.3.3 ITS Data Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
5.3.4 O–D Matrix Estimation by Traffic Counts . . . . . . . . . 275
5.3.5 Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
5.3.6 Reference Notes and Concluding Remarks. . . . . . . . . 281
References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Part III The Theory of Transit Assignment - Guido Gentile
6 The Theory of Transit Assignment: Basic Modelling
Frameworks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Guido Gentile, Michael Florian, Younes Hamdouch, Oded Cats and
Agostino Nuzzolo
6.1 Formulating and Solving Transit Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
6.1.1 Schedule-Based Versus Frequency-Based Services
and Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
6.1.2 Multiclass Flows and Performances on Multimodal
Networks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
6.1.3 Strategies and Hyperpaths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
6.1.4 Sequential Route Choice and Flow Propagation . . . . . 296