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Ya-Wen Jan, 2006.08
Feng Chia University - Graduate Institute of Traffic and Transportation Engineering and Management
Recently, many major highway constructions had completed, it appears highway transportation system play more important role in Taiwan area for now. However, the government doesn’t yet make clear and specific plans for the topic that integrate between transportation systems. It leads lower transportation effect and no efficiency. Thus, how to plan and design optimal scale of highway transfer terminals are urgent and important research issues.
In recent years, some transit operators set up transfer systems in intercity bus services to improve the situation of operation deficits. Therefore, without analytic and systematic procedure, transit operators are hard to obtain the best operation efficiency and benefit for transfer systems. Furthermore, the optimal scale of transfer terminal is also a good topic for study.
In this paper, using headway as model’s decision variable and through an analytical model to establish costs about operator and user. Through optimal model of total cost, it determines optimal operating headway about the transfer routes. By way of optimal operating headway, the quantities of facilities in transfer terminal to be estimated. Finally, an optimal plan in transfer system and terminal correlation path are processed and using Taichung Terminal of Ubus as a case study. |
