A Service-based Method to Generate Shuttle Bus Timetable In Accordance With Rail Transit Timetable

As the urban community is revealing a suburbanization tendency along with the expanding of the Urban Rail Transit system, the traveling between the Urban Rail Transit station and the community is becoming a more and more crucial and abstruse issue for modern city traffic systems. One of the best ways to solve this problem is to deploy a service-based shuttle bus. In this paper, the characteristic of the transfer system between the Rail Transit train and the shuttle bus is analyzed. We build a mathematic model for this transfer system, setting rules for the operation of the shuttle bus. And afterwards, a case study is launched under this model. The result of the model proves a fast and effective way to tackle with the traveling problem. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.