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Flexible Dispatching Control Tools in Public Transport

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Advanced Methods in Transportation Analysis

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Abstract

In the public transport transit on-time service has been a chronic operational problem created by the existence of unpredictable operational random events and high complexity of the public transport processes. The potential of new information and communication technologies offers great opportunities for the development of effective management and control tools for improvement of transit service reliability. This paper focuses on the distributed dispatching control problem, embedded into the follow-up direct control layer in the hierarchical control system. Autonomous dispatching control actions are practically realized by vehicles equipped with on-board computers and some communication media. In the paper wide spectrum of flexible single and multicriteria dispatching control tools are presented. Different control criteria described in terms of waiting time and control random variables moments are used as service irregularity and control cost measures. The analytical solutions for various types of non-linear regulators (half-wave rectifier, relay, polynomial, flexible with insensitivity zone) and various types of dispatching control strategies are presented and numerically illustrated.

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  1. Institute of Automatics, University of Mining and Metallurgy, 30-059, Cracow, Poland

    Andrzej Adamski

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemi e Produzione and Consiglio Nationale delle Ricerche, Progetto Finalizzato Trasporti, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Viale dell’Università 11, 00185, Rome, Italy

    Lucio Bianco

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    Paolo Toth

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Adamski, A. (1996). Flexible Dispatching Control Tools in Public Transport. In: Bianco, L., Toth, P. (eds) Advanced Methods in Transportation Analysis. Transportation Analysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85256-5_22

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