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Strategic Public Transport Design Using Autonomous Vehicles and Other New Technologies

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We examine potential improvements to public transport systems induced by the autonomous vehicle technology (AVT). To do so, we study a feeder system that operates on-demand in an idealized local zone, and the design of a trunk system that operates over a more general city model and with traditional lines. It is shown that the AVT encourages larger fleets of smaller vehicles that follow more direct routes, when compared with the traditional technology (TT). In both sub-systems, the total savings induced by the AVT reach up to one third of TT’s costs. Congestion could increase by a marginal amount.

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  • 30 August 2019

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  1. In [17] this is defined as feeder–trunk. In this study, we change its name to avoid confusions with the general feeder–trunk system.

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The author wishes to thank the World Conference on Transport Research Society Young Initiative for the (first prize) Innovation Grant assigned to this research. This research was partially funded by Fondecyt, Chile, Grant 1160410, and the Complex Engineering Systems Institute, ISCI, Grant CONICYT: FB0816.

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Fielbaum, A. Strategic Public Transport Design Using Autonomous Vehicles and Other New Technologies. Int. J. ITS Res. 18, 183–191 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13177-019-00190-5

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