Optimum headway time in a stochastic transport system with a sinusoidal arrival rate of passengers

Authors

Haneka Celine Lava ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
Gay Jane Perez ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman
Johnrob Bantang ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

We investigate the effect of the instability (variation) of headway time to the efficiency of a transport system using the mean-field analysis to a single station S given a sinusoidally varying passenger arrival rate. An optimum average headway time T_op is shown to give a proper balance between the efficiency in the utility of vehicles and the effectivity of the system. T_op is also found to be independent of the two types of distribution of the headway time. The analytic result is shown to be comparable to an agent based model.

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Issue

2011: Proceedings of the 29th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas National Physics Congress

Article ID

SPP2011-PB-12

Section

Poster Session PB

Published

2011-10-24

How to Cite

[1]

HC Lava, GJ Perez, and J Bantang, Optimum headway time in a stochastic transport system with a sinusoidal arrival rate of passengers, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 29, SPP2011-PB-12 (2011). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP2011-PB-12.