TY - JOUR
T1 - Lessons and Evaluation of a Headway Control Experiment in Washington, D.C.
AU - Soza-Parra, Jaime
AU - Cats, Oded
AU - Carney, Yvonne
AU - Vanderwaart, Catherine
N1 - Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Headway management can potentially reduce passenger waiting time and on-board crowding on high-frequency services. In this study, a headway control experiment was conducted and evaluated for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Agency routes 70 and 79 in Washington, D.C. The field experiment is evaluated by performing a before–after empirical evaluation. The organizational process and challenges involved with the implementation are discussed. Overall, a reduction of 26% in passenger excess waiting time was attained, which implies annual time savings that translate into US$1 million. Even though the field experiment implementation was far from ideal, the benefits obtained so far might pave the road to a long-term commitment to shift into a fully controlled headway-based management.
AB - Headway management can potentially reduce passenger waiting time and on-board crowding on high-frequency services. In this study, a headway control experiment was conducted and evaluated for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Agency routes 70 and 79 in Washington, D.C. The field experiment is evaluated by performing a before–after empirical evaluation. The organizational process and challenges involved with the implementation are discussed. Overall, a reduction of 26% in passenger excess waiting time was attained, which implies annual time savings that translate into US$1 million. Even though the field experiment implementation was far from ideal, the benefits obtained so far might pave the road to a long-term commitment to shift into a fully controlled headway-based management.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85065208695&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0361198119845369
DO - 10.1177/0361198119845369
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85065208695
SN - 0361-1981
VL - 2673
SP - 430
EP - 438
JO - Transportation Research Record
JF - Transportation Research Record
IS - 8
ER -