Resiliency of On-Demand Multimodal Transit Systems During a Pandemic

摘要: During the COVID-19 pandemic, collapse of public transit ridership led to significant budget deficits due dramatic decreases in fare revenues. Additionally, agencies are facing challenges reduced vehicle capacity social distancing requirements, additional costs cleaning and protective equipment, increased downtime for cleaning. Due these constraints on resources budgets, many have adopted essential service plans with hours, number routes, or frequencies. This paper studies resiliency during a pandemic On-Demand Multimodal Transit Systems (ODMTS), new generation systems that combine network high-frequency trains buses on-demand shuttles serve first last miles act as feeders fixed network. It presents case study city Atlanta evaluates ODMTS multiple scenarios depressed demand representing various stages pandemic. The relies real data from Metropolitan Rapid Authority (MARTA), an optimization pipeline design ODMTS, detailed simulation designs. demonstrates how provide resilient solution terms cost, convenience, accessibility this wide range scenarios.