SIMULATION OF TRANSIT ROUTE OPERATIONS (ABRIDGMENT)

Public transport managers and operators face increasingly difficult problems in providing adequate levels of service at reasonable social and financial costs. A greater demand exists for analytical techniques that would allow them to evaluate changes to operational strategies before committing themselves to implementation in the field. This paper contains a description of the development of a discrete event simulation model for the analysis of on-street transit routes. The structure of the model is described and details are provided of the types of events that are explicitly modeled in the TRAMS package. The input requirements are described, and the modular nature of the simulation model is highlighted. The various options for output format are described, including the use of a computer graphics real-time animation option.