The problems of scheduling and schedule co-ordination have conflicting objectives
related to user’s cost, operator’s cost, overloading and crew deployment hours.
Passengers would like to have bus service where there is less waiting time. Operators
on the other hand would like to have profit with lesser vehicle operating cost and a
minimum number of buses. When the service of buses is considered, passengers
would like to have less crowding in buses but operators would like to have higher load
factors to increase revenues. The crew would like to have less working hours and
there are legal requirements in crew working hours. The minimum economic cost is
the main consideration in bus dispatching when considering as a country.
When there is a mechanism to find out an average headway for a route for a day
considering above four factors and economic cost to the country while satisfying all
parties involved, then regulators can apply that mechanism to decide average
headways on a route.
As a mechanism of finding average headway for a route for a day, an improved
dispatching process was introduced in this study to find out the average headway
considering the financial costs, economic costs, overloading and crew deployment
hours involved in bus dispatching.
The problems of scheduling and schedule co-ordination have conflicting objectives
related to user’s cost, operator’s cost, overloading and crew deployment hours.
Passengers would like to have bus service where there is less waiting time. Operators
on the other hand would like to have profit with lesser vehicle operating cost and a
minimum number of buses. When the service of buses is considered, passengers
would like to have less crowding in buses but operators would like to have higher load
factors to increase revenues. The crew would like to have less working hours and
there are legal requirements in crew working hours. The minimum economic cost is
the main consideration in bus dispatching when considering as a country.
When there is a mechanism to find out an average headway for a route for a day
considering above four factors and economic cost to the country while satisfying all
parties involved, then regulators can apply that mechanism to decide average
headways on a route.
As a mechanism of finding average headway for a route for a day, an improved
dispatching process was introduced in this study to find out the average headway
considering the financial costs, economic costs, overloading and crew deployment
hours involved in bus dispatching.
