WSEAS Transactions on Systems
Print ISSN: 1109-2777, E-ISSN: 2224-2678
Volume 13, 2014
Study on Properties of Traffic Flow on Bus Transport Networks
Authors: , , ,
Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the statistical properties of traffic flow on the urban bus transport network (BTN) in the city Hangzhou of China. To alleviate the congestion and simulate properties of traffic flow on BTN, we construct a model using Hangzhou BTN which considers the short walking distance between two nearby stations and the maximum transfer frequency. We select four parameters to evaluate the characteristics of traffic flow on the BTN. We find that the results obtained from the simulation model are similar with the theoretical model irrespective of congestion. If congestion is considered, the situation is different. Besides, if we increase the departure frequency of the buses with some large passenger flow lines, it will lead to the critical packets generating rate increasing on the whole network tremendously. It indicates that buses with larger passenger flow are more important in the BTN, so we can increase the departure frequencies to improve the network performance. Our results provide a method to minimize the congestion on BTN.
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Pages: 164-176
WSEAS Transactions on Systems, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-2777 / 2224-2678, Volume 13, 2014, Art. #15