Hybrid real-time bus bridging optimization tactic for a disrupted railway: fine-tuning routing and temporary-adding routing
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2025
Subject Area
place - asia, place - urban, mode - bus, mode - rail, operations - scheduling, technology - intelligent transport systems
Keywords
Railway disruption, rolling horizon method, heterogeneous risk-taking behaviour, bus bridging service
Abstract
The bus bridging method (BBM) is a promising approach to handle disrupted railway operations. Traditional BBMs usually lead to unfairness for passengers who use existing normal bus service. Different from previous studies, this study proposes a hybrid BBM that combines the fine-tuning bus bridging method (F-BBM) with the temporary-adding bus bridging method (T-BBM). This new BBM not only contributes to timely connecting the stranded passenger flow (efficiency), but also ensures the serviceability for original bus passengers (fairness). This paper develops a multinomial logit-based passenger travel choice model to capture heterogeneous impacts on stranded passengers. Additionally, a rolling-horizon approach is used to track the passenger flow dynamics. A case study of the Shanghai Jinshan commuter railway shows that the proposed new hybrid BBM can achieve a 26.33% and 40.57% reduction in total delays, in comparison with using a non-dynamic schedule and a scenario without using the BBM, respectively.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Taylor&Francis, copyright remains with them.
Recommended Citation
Feng, Y., Zhang, S., Yin, Y., Liu, T., & Cao, Z. (2025). Hybrid real-time bus bridging optimization tactic for a disrupted railway: fine-tuning routing and temporary-adding routing. Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, 13(1), 2515483.
