Revenue treatment in bus dispatching

Abstract

Traditionally public transport has been perceived as the less desirable alternative tothe car. The common argument of using public transport has not led to a significant increase in the usage of public transport. In order to convince people to leave their car at horne, public transport must be at least as, desirable as driving a car. There are a number of ways of achieving this-reducing fares, introducing quality bus corridors etc. However the most effective strategy of doing this is to reduce the perceivedunreliability of public transport, through an efficient bus scheduling system.To make this dream corne true, the bus scheduling is not the only criteria, whichmeans scheduling, implementation, monitoring and self support of each person in this industry are most needed. As this industry is purely a business concern, without considering the operators revenue and the passenger demand the system cannot beimproved. This thesis is intended to discuss some aspects on the revenue of operatorsand usefulness of them, when scheduling buses. A good system for implementing effective bus scheduling systems should be described. This system uses every possible aspect relating to this service chain,ultimately to provide a coherent method with benefits down to the users. The endbenefactor in this system is not only the investor but also the user of the system, which means the passenger.