Abstract:

The cost and income of the feeder bus system of the rail transit were analyzed in consideration of the elasticity of the passenger demand for the headway and the fare of the feeder bus, and a nonlinear programming model as well as its solution method was proposed taking the maximization of the gross system profit as the target function and the passenger volume share of the rail transit as the constraint conditions. The numerical case study and the parametric sensitivity analysis showed, there is a local optimingation solution of the model in the frame of constraint conditions. The gross system profit gradually decreases in various rates with the increase of the average single passenger waiting time and the bus fare. The sensitivity of the passenger to the increase or decrease of the fare is more strong than that of the headway.

Key words: engineering of communication and transportation system, rail transit;feeder buses, headway, fare, gross system profit