Comparing social costs of public transport networks structured around an Open and Closed BRT corridor in medium sized cities

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dc.contributor.authorProboste Cárdenas,Francisco Javier
dc.contributor.authorMuñoz Abogabir, Juan Carlos
dc.contributor.authorGschwender Krause, Antonio Enrique
dc.contributor.otherCEDEUS (Chile)
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-13T19:13:44Z
dc.date.available2024-09-13T19:13:44Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractBus Rapid Transit (BRT) has proven to be an effective and affordable transportation option for large-sized cities. In these cities, BRT is usually considered an effective complement or substitute for rail-based systems, playing a key role in complex multimodal networks with several massive transport corridors. More recently, medium-sized cities of less than 200,000 inhabitants have also considering implementing BRT as a means of mass transit. These cities usually need only a few of these massive transport corridors (often just one), and they must decide how to structure their services. This report discusses which of the two types of BRT-based networks is best for the social interest in the case of medium-sized cities: (1) Closed BRT, in which buses operating inside and outside the corridor are separated and have different designs, or (2) Open BRT, in which the same buses operate inside and outside the corridor, entering and exiting at different points along a route. To answer this question two models with different levels of detail in terms of a city's characteristics were developed to represent both agency and user costs. In the first model a classic idealized city approach is addressed, while in the second model the problem is solved for the specific geographic characteristics and constraints of a real city. The results based on both models show that when it is optimally configured, Closed BRT networks offer mid-sized cities higher frequencies and lower waiting times. However, these benefits do not offset the cost associated with higher number of transfers that Closed BRT networks require, as compared to Open BRT networks. Transfers not only affect users due to the transferring experience, but also end up making the entire system slower. Overall, Open BRT shows significantly less Total Costs than Closed BRT in most of the scenarios that were analyzed.
dc.format.extent26 páginas
dc.fuente.origenConveris
dc.identifier.converisid1
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.tra.2020.06.005
dc.identifier.issn0965-8564
dc.identifier.scopusidSCOPUS_ID: 2-s2.0-85086586305
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2020.06.005
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/87877
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:000553351200013
dc.information.autorucEscuela de Ingeniería; Proboste Cárdenas,Francisco Javier; S/I; 177847
dc.information.autorucEscuela de Ingeniería; Muñoz Abogabir, Juan Carlos; 0000-0003-1775-985X; 75822
dc.information.autorucEscuela de Ingeniería; Gschwender Krause, Antonio Enrique; S/I; 1157599
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesocontenido parcial
dc.pagina.final212
dc.pagina.inicio187
dc.revistaTransportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
dc.rightsacceso restringido
dc.subjectNetwork design
dc.subjectBus rapid transit
dc.subjectMedium sized city
dc.subjectContinuum approximation
dc.subjectPublic transport
dc.subject.ddc380
dc.subject.deweyComunicación y transportees_ES
dc.subject.ods09 Industry, innovation and infrastructure
dc.subject.ods11 Sustainable cities and communities
dc.subject.odspa09 Industria, innovación e infraestructura
dc.subject.odspa11 Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles
dc.titleComparing social costs of public transport networks structured around an Open and Closed BRT corridor in medium sized cities
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen138
sipa.codpersvinculados177847
sipa.codpersvinculados75822
sipa.codpersvinculados1157599
sipa.trazabilidadConveris;20-07-2021
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