Analysis of demand-responsive transport services: a microsimulation approach

Demand-Responsive Transport Services (DRTS) are an attempt to improve the efficiency of public transport when demand is sporadic. The DRT service simulator that we have developed analyses most of the random events, such as traffic congestion and the arrival time of passengers at their pickup points, which ultimately affect the quality of the service. We assume that vehicles are moving within the traffic flow on the network, and a microscopic traffic simulator was therefore used to observe the dynamics of congestion.