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Enhancing sustainable urban intermodal systems: simulating the effects of key parameters in integrated ride-pooling and public transport
© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/) ; Mobility as a service, and its associated variants, has been proposed as a method to improve the sustainability of transport systems; however, most of the approaches that have been proposed so far have been unsuccessful or have worsened the situation. The work presented in this paper investigates an intermodal system that combines a ride-pooling service with a public transport network. The system is composed of a dedicated simulator that evaluates the transport scenario and an intermodal dispatcher that optimises the service according to requests, accounting for their time windows. This intermodal approach considers trips with multiple legs, for which either ride-pooling or public transport are used. This study investigates how the batch size and the early dispatching of the last leg, supported by a vehicle reservation strategy, impact diverse demand profiles that range from single-passenger to multiple-passenger requests, while also addressing the critical aspect of fleet size. The experimental setting used in this work is the metropolitan area of Barcelona; the experimentation results yield valuable insights into the functionality of the proposed intermodal system. ; This research was funded by an industrial PhD grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya and the company PTV-AG under grant DI-071 2019. This study was also a research project funded by the Spanish R+D Programs, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, under project PID2020-112967GB-C31. ; Peer Reviewed ; Postprint (published version)
Enhancing sustainable urban intermodal systems: simulating the effects of key parameters in integrated ride-pooling and public transport
© 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/) ; Mobility as a service, and its associated variants, has been proposed as a method to improve the sustainability of transport systems; however, most of the approaches that have been proposed so far have been unsuccessful or have worsened the situation. The work presented in this paper investigates an intermodal system that combines a ride-pooling service with a public transport network. The system is composed of a dedicated simulator that evaluates the transport scenario and an intermodal dispatcher that optimises the service according to requests, accounting for their time windows. This intermodal approach considers trips with multiple legs, for which either ride-pooling or public transport are used. This study investigates how the batch size and the early dispatching of the last leg, supported by a vehicle reservation strategy, impact diverse demand profiles that range from single-passenger to multiple-passenger requests, while also addressing the critical aspect of fleet size. The experimental setting used in this work is the metropolitan area of Barcelona; the experimentation results yield valuable insights into the functionality of the proposed intermodal system. ; This research was funded by an industrial PhD grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya and the company PTV-AG under grant DI-071 2019. This study was also a research project funded by the Spanish R+D Programs, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, under project PID2020-112967GB-C31. ; Peer Reviewed ; Postprint (published version)
Enhancing sustainable urban intermodal systems: simulating the effects of key parameters in integrated ride-pooling and public transport
2024-06-12
doi:10.3390/su16125013
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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