Creating most needed customized bus services: A collaborative analysis of user-route dynamics

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2024

Subject Area

place - asia, mode - bus, mode - demand responsive transit, land use - impacts, land use - planning, policy - sustainable, ridership - behaviour, ridership - demand

Keywords

Customized buses (CB), demand

Abstract

Customized buses (CB) are emerging mobility services as a complement to conventional transit. However, knowledge remains limited regarding the interplay between supply and demand dynamics in CB systems. Utilizing the Shanghai Yidong CB services as a case, this study develops a multi-task deep-learning framework to collaboratively analyze the homogeneity and heterogeneity in the influencing mechanisms of CB users and route service survival time. Key findings include: 1) Behavioral inertia and built environment significantly influence both supply and demand dynamics; 2) The built environment’s impacts vary, with destination areas being crucial for route services and origin areas for users; 3) For route services, the entropy and intensity of the built environment are critical, while specific built environments are more crucial for users; and 4) a synergistic analysis for three specific categories of routes, the University-oriented, Transportation Hub- oriented, and Economic Center-oriented CB routes, helps formulate targeted strategies for transits’ sustainable development.

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Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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