Research On Route And Station Planning Of Customized Bus

In recent years,with the rapid development of information and communication technology,a new type of public transport service-customized bus is presented in front of the public.Because there are many advantages of customized bus,such as direct,fast,comfortable,economic and so on,so it attracted many private car commuters.Therefore,the problem of urban traffic congestion and environmental pollution is effectively alleviated.For these reasons,the customized bus rapid rise in the major cities in the country.Customized bus routes and stations planning are main parts of the customized bus system,so the rationality of its planning plays an important role in the whole operation process of customized bus.At this stage of the customized bus routes and stations planning is more reference to the planning method of conventional bus.Scientific and reasonable stations setting and routes planning can reduce the time of passenger travel and the operating cost of bus companies effectively,meet the travel needs of the majority of passengers and maximize the use of customized bus resources.Therefore,it is necessary to make a scientific and systematic study on customized bus routes and stations planning.Firstly,this thesis introduces the concept and operation process of customized bus and it puts forward the principles of customized bus routes and stations planning by analyzing the difference between bus routes and stations planning.Secondly,according to the characteristics of customized bus,the general method based entirely on passenger’s demand of customized bus network planning is studied and determined in this thesis,including the methods of customized bus travel demand data processing,traffic zone division,hop and ride station division,and the models of construction of customized bus routes and stations planning,and the solving algorithm of the planning model.Finally,an example is given to verify the feasibility of the proposed method and the solving algorithm.In this thesis,according to the characteristics of customized bus passenger demand data,a new method of traffic zone division based on K-means clustering method is proposed,a new algorithm of hop and ride station division based on hierarchical clustering is proposed.Based on the three factors of bus companies,passengers and society,this thesis establishes a customized bus routes and stations planning model.Aiming at the problems of customized bus routes and stations planning,a solving algorithm based on basic ant colony algorithm is designed in this thesis.Based on the collected passenger’s travel demand data,four routes of the customized bus routes and stations for Beijing "Liyuan-Guomao" are planned by using proposed method and solving algorithm,and verify the rationality and effectiveness of this method by comparing with the actual operation routes.