What is it about?
The aim is to create a feeder bus service as the residences are developed in order to promote public transport use. Creating a balance between access from residential lots to bus stops and the cost of providing the bus service cost is a non-trivial problem.
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Why is it important?
Analytical approaches to bus route design is generally limited to school buses or services for high density population areas. Design of bus routes for low to medium density tends to follow conventional practice; the modelled case shows that patronage can be increased by focusing on stop locations linked by the shortest feasible route.
Perspectives
This study followed from the development of a computer model which can independently grow a suburban street layout within specified geographical constraints. The undirected growth results in a plan that is irregular but highly efficient in terms of number of lots and accessibility between residences as well as to the train station. Fitting a feeder bus route was seen as a challenge to which this bus layout model is the response.
John Taplin
University of Western Australia
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This page is a summary of: Optimizing bus stop locations for walking access: Stops-first design of a feeder route to enhance a residential plan, Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science, January 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2399808318824108.
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