TRIPS Simulation Program: Evaluating for the Efficiency of Transit Route Adjustment Strategies

Public transport is a travel mode that plays an essential role in the transportation system to alleviate congestion and reduce carbon emissions in urban networks. Recently, introducing a new travel mode requires route adjustment in the existing public transport system. Route adjustment of public transport has become an important policy task for the efficiency of the urban transportation system. This study develops the TRIPS (Travel Record based Integrated Public transport operation System) program to evaluate the effect of public transport route adjustment. An optimization-based travel assignment model using generalized costs is established to analyze the travel patterns of public transport users. This study employs smartcard and GIS data to identify public transport travel behaviors. A travel pattern-based analysis compares the travel demand for the existing and the adjusted public transit routes. We quantitatively analyze the travel volume and revenue changes for each transit line after adjusting public transit routes. It is expected to analyze the policy improvement effects of introducing new travel modes in the future.