Optimization of Parking Public Transport Vehicles in Ostrava

Dušan Teichmann
Institute of Transport, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

Michal Dorda
Institute of Transport, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

Helena Bínová
Department of Logistics and Management of Transport, Faculty of Transportation Sciences, Czech Technical University in Prague

Martin Ludvík
Institute of Transport, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

Abstract

A typical trait of public transport is a spatially scattered demand. A route net that is operated by a carrier (or several carriers) has to be adapted to the demand. Public transport vehicles that are not used during a period of a day are usually parked in defined parking lots that have a given capacity. When the vehicle goes from the place where its schedule ends (usually a terminus of the last connection served by the vehicle) to the place where the vehicle should be parked, a non-productive journey occurs. The same occurs at the beginning of the vehicle schedule as well. The main goal of the paper is to present a mathematical model that enables minimization of the total length of all the non-productive journeys. Functionality of the proposed mathematical model was tested in the conditions of a real bus public transport network.