Mitigating Bunching With Bus-Following Models and Bus-to-Bus Cooperation

被引:14
作者
Ampountolas, Konstantinos [1 ]
Kring, Malcolm [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Thessaly, Dept Mech Engn, Volos 38334, Greece
[2] Databowl Ltd, Sheffield S6 3AF, S Yorkshire, England
关键词
Aerospace electronics; Schedules; Global Positioning System; Vehicles; Reliability; Real-time systems; Lead; Bus bunching; bus-following models; bus-to-bus cooperation; bus schedule reliability; linear Gaussian control; HUMAN RESPONSE; RELIABILITY; PERFORMANCE; SYSTEMS;
D O I
10.1109/TITS.2020.2973585
中图分类号
TU [建筑科学];
学科分类号
0813 ;
摘要
Bus bunching is an instability problem where buses operating on high-frequency public transport lines arrive at stops in bunches. This work unveils that bus-following models can be used to design bus-to-bus cooperative control strategies and mitigate bunching. The use of bus-following models avoids the explicit modelling of bus-stops, which would render the resulting problem discrete, with events occurring at arbitrary time intervals. In a follow-the-leader two-bus system, bus-to-bus communication allows the driver of the following bus to observe (from a remote distance) the position and speed of the leading bus operating in the same transport line. The information transmitted from the leader is then used to control the speed of the follower to eliminate bunching. A platoon of buses operating in the same transit line can be then controlled as leader-follower dyads. In this context, we propose practical control laws to regulate speeds, which would lead to bunching cure. A combined state estimation and remote control scheme is developed to capture the effect of disturbances and randomness in passenger arrivals. To investigate the performance of the developed schemes the 9-km 1-California line in San Francisco with about 50 arbitrary spaced bus stops is used. Simulations with empirical passenger data are carried out. Results show bunching avoidance and improvements in terms of schedule reliability of bus services and delays. The proposed control is robust, scalable in terms of transit network size, and thus easy to deploy by transit agencies to improve communication and guidance to drivers, and reduce costs.
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页码:2637 / 2646
页数:10
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