A Review of Service Reliability Measures for Public Transportation Systems

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to review various public transport reliability measures including the factors responsible for causing variability in the travel time. A four quadrant approach is used to summarize various reliability measures. These indicators use both Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) data and the stated preference data to measure reliability. Further various supply and demand side factors causing uncertainties in travel time are listed and discussed. In the end a brief case study on two routes of Bus Rapid Transit System(BRTS) of Ahmedabad is reported to apply and test the reviewed travel time measures on the ITS data. © 2019, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.