Developing Model of Bus Dwell Time at Regular Bus Stops (Case Study: Abadan City)

Subject Areas : Industrial Management

Roohangiz Namdari ¹ , Atousa Tangestani ²

1 - Academic Member of Islamic Azad University, Abadan branch
2 - M.A in Transportation Planning, Tehran Bus Organization.

Received: 2018-01-11 Accepted : 2018-01-11 Published : 2011-10-23

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Abstract :

The bus system is one of the public transportation system subsets and it is the most predominant types of public transportations in developing countries. Researchers show that bus dwell time at the bus stop is an important part of the total traveling time which can take nearly 26 percent of the total commuting time. Selecting process factors are of the commonly used components in bus dwell time modeling at the bus stop which are less considered by scholars. In this study, the affecting parameters are boarding and alighting passengers, number of standee ones on a bus, fare payment methods and number of passengers that don’t know the rout. The used data in this study is obtained from the number of regular route bus stop at Abadan city which was taken by SPSS software. Creating the databank, the Linear Polynomial Regression Models concerning an investigation of the effects of variables on the passengers' wait time are estimated. Since the traffic in Abadan is not so slow and streets do not suffer from the of lack of high traffic load, studying the bus dwell time at bus stops seems required to proper urban traffic planning and decision making, make schedules of bus lines, simulate bus routes and ultimately to develop and improve the public transportation system.