Simulation model for transit network-modeling

The trip distribution of passengers in various major urban areas possessing different road networks require a large number of overlapping routes. In the analysis of these networks it is desirable to simulate the flow of passengers and vehicles on all the routes simultaneously thereby accounting for the interaction of the routes rather than dealing with individual routes. The model developed in this study simulates at a micro level the flow of passengers and vehicles in a given network. In order to incorporate the interaction of the overlapping routes in the network, the station scanning technique has been developed and used. The Kanpur metropolis (population: 1.6 million) bus service is taken as the case study for the purpose of modeling the route network and for the complimentary problem of scheduling, the case study has been presented in a separate paper to follow.