General Approaches to Combining Bus and Trolleybus Routes

Abstract

In recent years, the number of bus routes in the cities of the DPR, which are served by rolling stock owned by several private enterprises or owners, has increased dramatically and the municipal bus transport has also been introduced. At the same time, urban electric transport within the framework of trolleybus routes retains its positions in traffic volumes. This reveals the emergence of significant competition for profits.

Bus drivers strive to ensure maximum occupancy of the bus cabin, which increases the speed and intensity of the traffic on the routes, leads to a decrease in the standard duration of bus idle time at stopping points. The noted aspects lead to additional difficulties in the conditions of bus traffic on combined sections of routes with trolleybus traffic, where there are overtaking buses of different routes and trolleybuses, including changes in traffic intervals with possible violations of traffic rules and a decrease in the quality of passenger service. In addition, buses of different capacity are used on the routes, and the intervals of movement remain equal, which leads to uneven passenger filling of the passenger compartments of buses and trolleybuses. This contributes to the underutilization of more spacious, or the overload of less spacious rolling stock and even the denial of boarding to passengers. There is an urgent problem of combining bus and trolleybus routes, based on the required estimated duration of the intervals and the sequence of movement of the rolling stock within the combined section.

The paper formulates general approaches to combining bus and trolleybus routes.

The condition for the formation of the characteristics of the transport operation of buses and trolleybuses within the combined section is obtained, which then need to be extended to the remaining sections of individual routes. The condition ensures the required occupancy of the interiors of buses and trolleybuses within the combined area, which reduces competition. The specified condition includes the ratio of tariffs for transportation by buses and trolleybuses, which will make it possible to balance the income from the transportation process by buses and trolleybuses within the limits of work on a combined section of routes.

Next, it is necessary to consider ways to implement the formulated condition in practice, by changing the interval of movement and technical speed at the same time.