Collaboration decisions on disruption recovery service in urban public tram systems

Authors

Amy Z. Zeng
Christian F. Durach
Yan Fang

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2011

Subject Area

mode - tram/light rail, mode - taxi, place - europe, economics - pricing

Keywords

Public tram systems, Transport systems, Disruption recovery service, Optimization, Collaboration

Abstract

This research focuses on the decisions on recovery services to deal with short-term disruptions in public tram systems. The disruption recovery approach used in Munich, Germany – the best service acclaimed by the public, is adopted as the basis to examine whether to collaborate with a taxi company to provide the recovery service and how to price to compensate the service. The two involving parties’ decision functions with the taxi’s average arrival time as the leading decision variable are formulated and analyzed. Both theoretical and numerical sensitivity analyses are conducted to shed lights on the critical factors affecting the decisions.

Rights

Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Zeng, A.Z., Durach, C.F., & Fang, Y. (2011). Collaboration decisions on disruption recovery service in urban public tram systems. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 48, (3), pp. 578-590.