Examining the association between bus transit reliability and the number of boarding passengers
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2023
Subject Area
place - north america, place - urban, mode - bus, operations - performance, operations - reliability, ridership - demand
Keywords
Bus, Reliability, On-time, Boarding passengers, Bus-stop
Abstract
The focus of this study is to examine the association between bus transit reliability and the number of boarding passengers at bus-stop level using data obtained from the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA for the year 2017. The on-time performance percentage was computed and used as bus transit reliability at bus-stop level. Two different thresholds were considered to compute the on-time performance measure. The ridership data was processed to compute the average number of boarding passengers per bus at bus-stop level. The findings indicate that the day of the week, time of the day, direction of travel, and the type of bus-stop influence the association between the on-time performance percentage and the average number of boarding passengers per bus.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by SpringerLink, copyright remains with them.
Recommended Citation
Jayanthi, L. S., Pulugurtha, S. S., & Mishra, R. (2023). Examining the association between bus transit reliability and the number of boarding passengers. Public Transport, 15(3), 675-696.
