Should autonomous shared taxis replace buses? A simulation study

摘要: Abstract The introduction of shared autonomous vehicles (SAV) will likely reduce operation cost per vehicle and might thereby allow to enhance conventional public transit systems with numerous small SAVs offering flexible ridesharing-like feeder services. These demand-responsive services could replace bus lines limited by their fixed routes schedules. This simulation study explores the potential replacing in a suburban area Berlin. Several scenarios different fleet sizes are simulated using multi agent transport MAT-Sim. suggests for all evaluated higher operating costs only slight travel time savings comparison buses. Door-to-door service allows significant reductions average walk time, but causes detours which consume high share gained. A 150 4 seats each seemed appropriate approximately 24 000 inhabitants.