TY - JOUR
T1 - Methodology for delay-based passenger car equivalencies for urban transit buses
AU - Rodriguez-Seda, Jarice D.
AU - Benekohal, Rahim F.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - A delay-based passenger car equivalent (D-PCE) methodology for stop-ping transit buses is presented in this paper. It is based on a D-PCE approach developed in 2000. Field data collected at a near-side bus stop in Chicago, Illinois, were used to determine the total additional delay experienced by bus queues and to illustrate the D-PCE methodology. The relationships between total additional delay, D-PCE, and the factors contributing to delay such as bus dwell time, the number of vehicles queued behind the bus, the bus position within the queue, and the bus arrival-departure time within the cycle were evaluated. The approach is illustrated for cases when the stopping bus was in the first position in the queue. It was found that a bus in first position replaces 5.9 passenger cars. It was also observed that the total additional delay and D-PCE values increased with the factors contributing to additional delay.
AB - A delay-based passenger car equivalent (D-PCE) methodology for stop-ping transit buses is presented in this paper. It is based on a D-PCE approach developed in 2000. Field data collected at a near-side bus stop in Chicago, Illinois, were used to determine the total additional delay experienced by bus queues and to illustrate the D-PCE methodology. The relationships between total additional delay, D-PCE, and the factors contributing to delay such as bus dwell time, the number of vehicles queued behind the bus, the bus position within the queue, and the bus arrival-departure time within the cycle were evaluated. The approach is illustrated for cases when the stopping bus was in the first position in the queue. It was found that a bus in first position replaces 5.9 passenger cars. It was also observed that the total additional delay and D-PCE values increased with the factors contributing to additional delay.
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U2 - 10.3141/1988-18
DO - 10.3141/1988-18
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33847295235
SN - 0361-1981
SP - 127
EP - 137
JO - Transportation Research Record
JF - Transportation Research Record
IS - 1988
ER -