Public Transport Capacity Analysis Procedures for Developing Cities

The introduction of urban rail transit and high performance/quality/capacity bus transit systems throughout the world has dramatically improved the mobility of residents of cities in which they operate. The objectives of this work are: to provide a technical resource for transit planners and designers in developing cities in their public transport capacity and performance analysis work irrespective of mode. This report recommends methods of achieving practical transit capacity during normally encountered operating conditions. Where capacity is influenced by a measure of dispersion of some characteristic such as stop dwell time or vehicle headway, this is also noted. The purpose of measuring capacity is not just to provide a measure of system capability to transport passengers but also to provide some insight into the effect of service and physical design on customer service quality. When the demand for a service exceeds its schedule design capacity, service quality deteriorates either due to overcrowding on vehicles or at station platforms or diminished ability of customers to board the next arriving transport vehicle since it is already fully loaded, increased dwell times and hence decrease revenue speeds. The importance of service quality in transit capacity analysis cannot be overstated. Transit operators should be mindful that the urban transportation marketplace is more competitive. While it might be technically possible to design a service using a loading standard of 7 or 8 passengers per square meter, a number of customers will find that level intolerable and will seek alternate means of travel including walking (in the case of short distance trips), riding with someone else, riding taxis or purchasing a motorcycle or car. Accordingly, such loading standards should be thought of as interim measures until higher capacity at lower crowding can be achieved.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Reilly, Jack, Levinson, Herbert
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2011
Subjects:	ACCELERATION, ARTERIAL STREET, AUTOMOBILE, BICYCLISTS, BOARDING TIME, BOTTLENECKS, BUFFER, BUNCHING, BUS, BUS BOARDING, BUS DESIGN, BUS FLOOR, BUS FREQUENCY, BUS LANE, BUS LANES, BUS LINE, BUS MOVEMENT, BUS MOVEMENTS, BUS OPERATIONS, BUS PASS, BUS ROUTE, BUS SERVICE, BUS SERVICES, BUS STATION, BUS STATIONS, BUS STOP, BUS STOPS, BUS SYSTEM, BUS SYSTEMS, BUS TRANSIT, BUS TRANSPORTATION, BUS TRAVEL, BUSES, BUSES PER HOUR, BUSWAYS, CAR, CENTER, COMMUTER BUS, COMMUTER RAIL, CONGESTION, CORRIDOR, CROSSWALK, CROWDED TRAINS, CURB LANES, DECELERATION, DESTINATION, DOMAIN, DRIVERS, EQUATIONS, ESCALATORS, EXCLUSIVE RIGHT OF WAY, FARE COLLECTION, FARE COLLECTION SYSTEMS, FARE STRUCTURE, FARES, FLOOR AREA, FRAMEWORK, FREE TRANSFER, FREEWAY, FREEWAY LANES, FREEWAYS, GRADE, HEADWAY, HEAVY RAIL, HIGH TRANSIT RIDERSHIP, HIGHWAY, HIGHWAY CAPACITY, HIGHWAY SYSTEM, IDENTITY, INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION, INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, INTERSECTION, INTERSECTIONS, JUNCTIONS, KILOMETERS PER HOUR, LANES, LIGHT RAIL, LIGHT RAIL SYSTEM, LOADING, MIXED TRAFFIC, MOBILITY, MOTORCYCLE, MOTORISTS, ORIGIN, PARKING, PASSENGER CAPACITY, PASSENGER DEMAND, PASSENGER FLOWS, PASSENGER MOVEMENTS, PASSENGER SERVICE, PASSENGER TRIP, PASSENGER VEHICLE, PASSENGER VOLUME, PASSENGER VOLUMES, PASSENGERS, PASSENGERS PER HOUR, PASSENGERS PER HOUR PER DIRECTION, PASSENGERS PER VEHICLE, PEAK DEMANDS, PEAK DIRECTION, PEAK DIRECTION OF TRAVEL, PEAK HOUR, PEAK PERIOD, PEAK PERIODS, PEAK RIDERSHIP, PEAK-HOUR, PEDESTRIAN, PEDESTRIAN BEHAVIOR, PEDESTRIAN CONFLICTS, PEDESTRIAN CROSSING, PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT, PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENTS, PEDESTRIAN VOLUMES, PEDESTRIANS, PITCH, POPULATION DENSITY, PUBLIC TRANSPORT, PUBLIC TRANSPORT CAPACITY, PUBLIC TRANSPORT PLANNING, RAIL, RAIL CAPACITY, RAIL CARS, RAIL LINE, RAIL OPERATIONS, RAIL RAPID TRANSIT, RAIL SERVICES, RAIL STATION, RAIL SYSTEMS, RAIL TRANSIT, RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEMS, RAIL VEHICLE, RAILROAD, RAPID TRANSIT, RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEMS, RED TRAFFIC SIGNALS, RIDERS, RIGHT OF WAY, RIGHT TURN, RIGHT TURN ON RED, RIGHT TURNING VEHICLES, RIGHT TURNS, RIGHT-OF-WAY, RIGHTS OF WAY, ROUTE, ROUTES, RUSH HOUR, SAFETY, SERVICE RELIABILITY, SIMULATION, SMART CARDS, SPEED LIMIT, SPEEDS, STREET INTERSECTIONS, STREET TRAFFIC, TAXIS, THROUGH TRAFFIC, TRACK CAPACITY, TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC CONTROL, TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES, TRAFFIC LAW, TRAFFIC LAW ENFORCEMENT, TRAFFIC MIX, TRAFFIC OPERATIONS, TRAFFIC SIGNAL, TRAFFIC VOLUME, TRAFFIC VOLUMES, TRAM, TRANSIT, TRANSIT AGENCY, TRANSIT CAPACITY, TRANSIT CORRIDORS, TRANSIT OPERATING COSTS, TRANSIT OPERATIONS, TRANSIT OPERATORS, TRANSIT PASSENGER, TRANSIT PASSENGERS, TRANSIT PLANNERS, TRANSIT SERVICE, TRANSIT SERVICES, TRANSIT STOPS, TRANSIT SYSTEM, TRANSIT SYSTEMS, TRANSIT TERMINALS, TRANSIT VEHICLE, TRANSIT VEHICLES, TRANSPORT PLANNING, TRANSPORT RESEARCH, TRANSPORT SECTOR, TRANSPORTATION, TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS, TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH, TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, TRAVEL DEMAND, TRAVEL SPEEDS, TRAVEL TIME, TRAVEL TIMES, TRIPS, TRUCKS, URBAN BUS, URBAN RAIL, URBAN RAIL SYSTEMS, URBAN RAIL TRANSIT, URBAN RAIL TRANSIT SYSTEMS, URBAN TRANSPORT, URBAN TRANSPORTATION, VEHICLE, VEHICLE CAPACITY, VEHICLE CHARACTERISTICS, VEHICLE DESIGN, VEHICLE FLOW, VEHICLE FLOWS, VEHICLE LOADS, VEHICLE MANUFACTURERS, VEHICLE MOVEMENTS, VEHICLE PLATOONING, VEHICLE SIZE, VEHICLE SPEED, VEHICLES, VEHICLES PER HOUR, WAITING TIME, WALKING,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/788571468153287060/Public-transport-capacity-analysis-procedures-for-developing-cities https://hdl.handle.net/10986/26722
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