Computer-Aided Transit Scheduling

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Status updates on scheduling packages

   1. Developments and Recent Experience with the BUSMAN and BUSMAN II Systems

      • Mark Chamberlain, Anthony Wren

      Pages 1-15

   2. The HASTUS System: New Algorithms and Modules for the 90s

      • Nigel Hamer, Lise Séguin

      Pages 17-29

3. Problems and experiences from transit

   1. Århus Public Transport’s Innovative Rostering Technique

      • Claus Jørvang

      Pages 31-45

   2. Developing Transit Scheduling Tools Using an “Object-Oriented” Programming Language

      • Douglas R. Allen, John F. Kellermann

      Pages 47-57

   3. Experience of Using the Same Computerised Scheduling System under Three Different Operating Conditions

      • Martin Lewis

      Pages 59-74

   4. Work Rule Flexibility: Method to Reduce PTO Requirements

      • Alan H. Castaline

      Pages 75-84

   5. Development of Performance Indicators Using Vehicle and Crew Scheduling Data Bases

      • Hefny Mahmoud, Harmut von Gaza

      Pages 85-95

4. Bus scheduling

   1. Time and Space Scheduling of Public Transport Networks and the Evaluation of Quality of Service

      • José Viegas

      Pages 97-111

   2. Scheduling Considerations in Designing Transit Routes at the Network Level

      • Avishai Ceder, Yechezkel Israeli

      Pages 113-136

   3. Network Design Formulations in Schedule Synchronization

      • Stefan Voß

      Pages 137-152

   4. SYNCRO: A Computer-Assisted Tool for the Synchronization of Transfers in Public Transit Networks

      • Alain Désilets, Jean-Marc Rousseau

      Pages 153-166

   5. Multiple Depot Vehicle Scheduling Problem: A New Heuristic Based on Quasi-Assignment Algorithms

      • Marta Mesquita, J. Paixão

      Pages 167-180

   6. An Approach to Vehicle Scheduling with Depot Capacity Constraints

      • Achim Lamatsch

      Pages 181-195

   7. Optimization in Bus Scheduling — Driver Constraints Deadheading Estimation and Size Advantage

      • Camil Fuchs

      Pages 197-212

   8. Real-Time Scheduling on a Transit Bus Route

      • Yihua Li, Jean-Marc Rousseau, Fujun Wu

      Pages 213-235

5. Technology and data collection for scheduling and planning

   1. Improving Computer-Aided Scheduling by Cashless Payment System Fahrsmart

      • R. Götz, N. Buter

      Pages 237-244

   2. The Use of Automatic Passenger Counting Data to Verify Schedule Adherence

      • H. A. Martin, A. H. Steane, V. C. Mauceri

      Pages 245-258

   3. Automatic Passenger Counting Data: Better Schedules Improve on-Time Performance

      • Joel Koffman

      Pages 259-282

   4. Flexible Operation Command & Control System (FOCCS) With Vehicle-Autonomous Schedule Control and Synchronisation

      • Horst E. Gerland

      Pages 283-303

This volume consists of papers presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Computer­ Aided Scheduling of Public Transport, which was held in Montreal from August 19th to the 23rd, 1990. Since the first Workshop in Chicago in 1975 the field had matured considerably. In 1975, there were no presentations that described systems which had been implemented and used on a regular basis. By 1980, in Leeds, and certainly by 1983, in Montreal, several systems were in regular use. They were based on both heuristics and mathematical programming techniques. In 1990, there were more than one hundred transit companies using computer-aided scheduling tools in their regular operations. The scope of the Workshop was broadened in 1987, in Hamburg, so that topics related to scheduling may be introduced. We find, for example, in this book several papers on the technology related to the collection of data and/or the data bases required for scheduling and planning activities.

• Computer
• Computer-aided Scheduling
• Computerunterstützung
• Operations Research
• Scheduling
• Transit
• Transport
• algorithms
• database
• modeling
• optimization
• programming
• programming language

• École Polytechnique, Montréal, Canada

  Martin Desrochers

• Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

  Jean-Marc Rousseau

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