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Dynamic interlining in bus operations
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Civil and Architectural Engineering, Transport planning.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2141-0389
2025 (English)In: Transportation, ISSN 0049-4488, E-ISSN 1572-9435, Vol. 52, no 3, p. 827-850Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

The paper introduces and evaluates the concept of the dynamic interlining of buses. Dynamic interlining is an operational strategy for routes with a terminal station at a common hub, allowing a portion of (or all) the fleet to be shared among the routes belonging to the hub (shared fleet) as needed. The shared fleet is dispatched on an on-demand basis to serve scheduled trips on any route to avoid delays and regulate services. The paper examines systematically the impacts of dynamic interlining on service reliability. It formulates the dispatching problem as an optimization problem and uses simulation to evaluate the dynamic interlining strategy under a variety of operating conditions. Using bus routes in Boston’s Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) as a case study, the strategy’s feasibility and factors that affect its performance are investigated. Results show that dynamic interlining can improve service reliability (increases on-time departures and decreases departure headways variability at the hub). The fraction of the fleet that is shared has the most dominant impact on performance. In the case where all buses are dynamically interlined, the performance improves as route frequency increases and more routes participate in the strategy.

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Springer Nature , 2025. Vol. 52, no 3, p. 827-850
Keywords [en]
Autonomous transit, Bus operations, Dynamic interlining, Optimal dispatching, Service reliability, Simulation
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Transport Systems and Logistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-350249DOI: 10.1007/s11116-023-10440-xISI: 001099971900001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85176581364OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-350249DiVA, id: diva2:1883618
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Available from: 2024-07-11 Created: 2024-07-11 Last updated: 2025-05-07Bibliographically approved

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