MULTILEVEL FRAMEWORK FOR OPTIMIZING BUS STOP SPACING

Dhananjay B. Nalawade, Ajay D. Nagne, Rajesh K. Dhumal, K. V. Kale

Abstract: To meet the rapidly growing urban mobility needs and control personal vehicles activity and their impacts, it become necessary to timely maintain and enhance the public transport system in Indian cities. In Indian cities public transport mainly defendant on buses, and likely to continue for coming years. However, the public bus transit system is inaccessible, inadequate and unaffordable to passengers. The paper present a multilevel framework for optimization of bus stops based on three different types for enhancing performance of public transport. Bus stops are classified as connection stop (C-stops), key stop (K-Stops) and ordinary stop (O-Stops). Firstly the C-stops have been identified on the basis of transit facilities. After that K-stops and O-stops are traced out using the transit demand and buffer analysis in Geographical Information System. In this work the spatial analysis of study area using GIS plays significant role

Keywords: Coverage Model, GIS, Smart City, Key Stop, Ordinary Stop

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0505055