Urban public transit systems modeling capabilities

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• Creators:
  Tyer, Kevin D. ; Rao, Kethireddipalli S. ; Oumarou, Amadou ; Krammes, Raymond A.
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas Transportation Institute ; Southwest Region University Transportation Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Traffic simulation
  • Traffic assignment
  • Urban transit
  • Environmental impacts
• Publication/ Report Number:
  SWUTC/95/60040-1
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1404659
• Resource Type:
  Research Paper
• Geographical Coverage:
  Texas
• TRIS Online Accession Number:
  00677879
• OCLC Number:
  32484251
• Corporate Publisher:
  Southwest Region University Transportation Center (U.S.)
• NTL Classification:
  NTL-PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION-Transit Planning and Policy
• Abstract:
  Current national transportation policy places increasing emphasis on multi-modal ; solutions involving public transit and high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) facilities ; and services. Current traffic simulation/assignment models, however, have only ; limited capabilities for evaluating the fuel consumption, traffic, and ; environmental impacts of alternative transit and HOV facilities and services in ; a multimodal transportation system. Therefore, a formal assessment of current ; transit and HOV modeling capabilities was conducted, with emphasis on CORFLO, ; which is uniquely suited among U.S. public-domain models for detailed evaluations ; of traffic conditions in urban corridors. Other models assessed include CONTRAM, ; INTEGRATION, JAM, TATM, MICRO ASSIGNMENT, NETSIM, SATURN, TRAFFICQ, and TRANSYT. ; SATURN and CORFLO were teh most highly rated with respect to their modeling ; approach, transit and HOV supply/demand modeling, and output measures of ; effectiveness. A detailed analysis of CORFLO's logic and code and a case study ; evaluation of transit and HOV alternatives using a CORFLO model of the North ; Central Expressway Corridor in Dallas, Texas, revealed several areas in which ; CORFLO should be enhanced to improve its urban public transit systems modeling ; capabilites. Recommended enhancements include increasing the number of bus ; stops that can be accommodated, refining the modeling of bus movements along ; links, and adding or improving fuel consumption and emissions algorithms. These ; enhancements are necessary in order to estimate with reasonable accuracy the ; fuel consumption, traffic, and environmental impacts of common transit and HOV ; alternatives.
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  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/13324/dot_13324_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 2.98 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:b71c8868e1559e9e6e087c34f7f3ac39ee379a4db09cb1975c0773baba934ce7