delays and performance: king county metro rapidride c & d lines
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Delays and Performance:King County METRORapidRide C & D Lines
University of WashingtonURBDP 422 Geospatial Analysis, Winter 2014Debmalya Sinha, Austin Bell, Riley Smith, Andrew Brick
Overview• Primary task: identify delays• Where• When• Magnitude
• Secondary tasks:• Identify priorities for remediation• Recommend delay reduction strategies
• Future research:• Relationship between delays and socioeconomic status
Data• Onboard System (OBS) for October 2013 (245,826
entries)• Records real-time information of bus activity• No weekend data was included in data file
• General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)• Provides scheduled arrival times for all routes
• Shapefiles• C & D Line stop locations (point)• C & D Line routes, manually segmented (line)
• Field Data• Physical attributes of stops and route segments
Methods• Raw OBS and GTFS data imported into R• All times converted to seconds after midnight where
required• Trips categorized by start time:• 0000 – 0600: pre-peak• 0600 – 0900: am-peak• 0900 – 1500: midday• 1500 – 1800: pm-peak• 1800 – 0000: post-peak
Data Preparation
Methods• Delays• scheduled arrival time – actual arrival time (in seconds after
midnight)• Stop performance• “Marginal” doors open time: number of seconds it takes for
each passenger to board or alight (over the amount of time it takes only one passenger to do so)• Averaged for each stop
• Segment performance• Seconds per foot: number of seconds between sequential
stops divided by the segment length, converted to speed• Averaged for each segment
Computations
Methods• Raw OBS data imported into GIS• X,Y data extracted from GPS entries (generated point
shapefile)• Data screen: retained only those stops which did not
occur at bus stops (retained only entries where STOP_ID = 0)• Computed kernel density with DWELL_SEC as value field• Reclassified output raster from 1 to 9, with 1
representing shortest stops / lowest number of stops
Unplanned Stops
• Worst Delays• Southbound in West Seattle• Southbound and
Northbound Downtown
ResultsDelays
Results
• Marginal on/off time consistently higher in D than C• Correlated with
passengers embarking and alighting• Off board payment
generally unused
Relative Stop Performance
Results
• Worst performance:• Northern and
Southern endpoints of Rapid Ride• Downtown
segments• Alaska Junction
Relative Segment Performance
Results• Averaged data reveals differences by time of day
and by ridership
Stops & Segments
0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30 33 36 39 42 45 480
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Number of “Doors Open” Seconds per Passenger by Ridership
Per-passenger Doors Open Time Observations (Secondary Axis)
Number of Passengers Boarding and Alighting
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Conclusions and Questions• No correlation between physical attributes of stops and
performance• Ridership explains only 26% of doors open time• More complex phenomena (traffic flows, signals)
account for most variation
• Why does C Southbound accumulate large delays in West Seattle?
Questions
University of WashingtonURBDP 422 Geospatial Analysis, Winter 2014Debmalya Sinha, Austin Bell, Riley Smith, Andrew Brick
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