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Improvement of operation on community bus considering user attributes

2009; Volume: 26; Linguagem: Inglês

10.2208/journalip.26.817

1884-8303

Mitsuteru SAKAKIBARA, Yukimasa Matsumoto, Masami Takahashi,

Transportation Planning and Optimization

In order to grasp the improvement effect of bus operation, passenger consciousnesses were investigated on the community buses operated in Nisshin City, Nagakute Town, Togo Town, Aichi prefecture. In general, it is thought that the degree of satisfaction relates to the frequency of using the community bus. However, we have not seen the relation directly between the satisfaction and the frequency. The improvement effect of bus operation was grasped under simulated scenarios. As a result, it is clarified that the bus operation to improve the satisfaction is different from the operation to increase the frequency, and effective measures to improve the satisfaction or the frequency depend on the passenger attributes.