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TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART B-METHODOLOGICAL
Volume 156, Issue -, Pages 1-13Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2021.12.015
Keywords
Urban transport; Transit feeder service; Flexible transit; Continuous approximations
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- Anandamahidol Foundation
- Institute of Transportation Studies
- Global Metropolitan Studies
- Chulalongkorn University Transportation Institute
- officials at the Department of Land Transport of Thailand
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This paper develops a novel strategy called Jitney-lite for providing feeder service in support of trunk-line transit, which is particularly suitable for developing countries. Through continuum approximation models, it is found that Jitney-lite tends to have lower costs in the periphery of cities, especially in areas with underdeveloped pedestrian infrastructure and higher income residents.
The paper develops a novel strategy for delivering feeder service in support of trunk-line transit. The strategy is well suited to developing countries, where costs of emergent communication technologies often preclude their use. The strategy, termed Jitney-lite, is a form of collective transportation that provides a degree of flexibility. Patrons who board an outbound Jitney-lite vehicle at a transit station are delivered to their doorsteps. On the return trip to the station, the vehicle boards new patrons in the manner of traditional, fixed-route, fixed-stop feeder-bus service. Continuum approximation models are formulated, both for Jitney-lite and traditional services. The models are used to determine the conditions for which one service form imparts lower generalized costs than the other. A case study of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region reveals that Jitney-lite tends to generate lower costs in the city's periphery, where travel demands are relatively low. The service can be especially cost-effective where sidewalks and other pedestrian infrastructure are underdeveloped, and where residents earn middle-to-high incomes.
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