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Spacing of Bus-Stops for Many to Many Travel Demand

S. C. Wirasinghe, Nadia Sobhi Abdel-Nour Ghoneim

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The optimal spacing of bus-stops along a local bus-route with nonuniform many to many travel demand is determined. Weak assumptions are made regarding the local street network. The daily demand functions are assumed to vary slowly within a spacing. The analysis is based on continuum approximations and methods of calculus. The probability of a null demand for boarding and alighting a given bus at a given bus-stop is exploited to space stops closer than otherwise.

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The optimal spacing of bus-stops along a local bus-route with nonuniform many to many travel demand is determined. Weak assumptions are made regarding the local street network. The daily demand functions are assumed to vary slowly within a spacing. The analysis is based on continuum approximations and methods of calculus. The probability of a null demand for boarding and alighting a given bus at a given bus-stop is exploited to space stops closer than otherwise.

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The optimal spacing of bus-stops along a local bus-route with nonuniform many to many travel demand is determined. Weak assumptions are made regarding the local street network. The daily demand functions are assumed to vary slowly within a spacing. The analysis is based on continuum approximations and methods of calculus. The probability of a null demand for boarding and alighting a given bus at a given bus-stop is exploited to space stops closer than otherwise.

Key concepts: Travel time, Transport engineering, Null (SQL), On demand, Computer science, Mathematical optimization, Mathematics, Engineering

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