Quantifying the potential benefits of buspooling: Case study and sensitivity analysis

IF 4.4 2区工程技术 Q2 BUSINESS

Research in Transportation Business and Management Pub Date : 2025-07-24 DOI:10.1016/j.rtbm.2025.101457

Xiaobing Liu , Yite Sun , Rui Wang , Weimin Tan , Feng Chen , Xuedong Yan , Yun Wang

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Abstract

In the realm of mobility services, high-capacity ridesharing such as buspooling holds promise in alleviating the overuse of low-capacity cars and addressing accessibility bottlenecks to public transit systems. However, research on buspooling remains in its fancy stage, requiring dedicated efforts to quantify and enhance its potential benefits. In this paper, we propose car-user-oriented and sustainable operating principles and embody them in a passenger matching model. Furthermore, we employ a solution approach including the spatial-temporal pruning strategies and a heuristic algorithm to guarantee the efficiency of larger-scale computing. Applying this system to the case of Beijing, results demonstrate that buspooling services could yield significant benefits to passengers, operators, and the environment. The consistency observed between the distribution of taxi trips and bus routes suggests that buspooling could effectively enhance subway accessibility, especially for residents in suburban areas. Moreover, findings from a sophisticated analysis can inform the design of a more attractive and eco-friendly system for intermodal transit services in practice.

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量化公共汽车合用的潜在好处：案例研究和敏感性分析

在移动服务领域，大容量拼车（如公交车拼车）有望缓解低容量汽车的过度使用，并解决公共交通系统的可达性瓶颈。然而，公共汽车合用的研究仍处于初级阶段，需要专门的努力来量化和增强其潜在效益。本文提出了以汽车用户为导向的可持续运营原则，并将其体现在乘客匹配模型中。此外，为了保证大规模计算的效率，我们采用了一种包含时空剪枝策略和启发式算法的求解方法。将该系统应用到北京的案例中，结果表明，公交车拼车服务可以为乘客、运营商和环境带来显著的好处。出租车出行和公交路线分布的一致性表明，公交合用可以有效提高地铁的可达性，尤其是对郊区居民而言。此外，复杂分析的结果可以为设计更具吸引力和更环保的多式联运服务系统提供参考。

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7.10

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8.30%

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175

期刊介绍： Research in Transportation Business & Management (RTBM) will publish research on international aspects of transport management such as business strategy, communication, sustainability, finance, human resource management, law, logistics, marketing, franchising, privatisation and commercialisation. Research in Transportation Business & Management welcomes proposals for themed volumes from scholars in management, in relation to all modes of transport. Issues should be cross-disciplinary for one mode or single-disciplinary for all modes. We are keen to receive proposals that combine and integrate theories and concepts that are taken from or can be traced to origins in different disciplines or lessons learned from different modes and approaches to the topic. By facilitating the development of interdisciplinary or intermodal concepts, theories and ideas, and by synthesizing these for the journal''s audience, we seek to contribute to both scholarly advancement of knowledge and the state of managerial practice. Potential volume themes include: -Sustainability and Transportation Management- Transport Management and the Reduction of Transport''s Carbon Footprint- Marketing Transport/Branding Transportation- Benchmarking, Performance Measurement and Best Practices in Transport Operations- Franchising, Concessions and Alternate Governance Mechanisms for Transport Organisations- Logistics and the Integration of Transportation into Freight Supply Chains- Risk Management (or Asset Management or Transportation Finance or ...): Lessons from Multiple Modes- Engaging the Stakeholder in Transportation Governance- Reliability in the Freight Sector