Article ID: | iaor20133122 |
Volume: | 22 |
Issue: | 9 |
Start Page Number: | 14 |
End Page Number: | 22 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2013 |
Journal: | Transportation Research Part D |
Authors: | Jimnez Felipe, Romn Alfonso, Lpez Jos Mara |
Keywords: | vehicle routing & scheduling |
This paper analyses the driving cycles of a fleet of vehicles with predetermined urban itineraries. Most driving cycles developed for such type of vehicles do not properly address variability among itineraries. Here we develop a polygonal driving cycle that assesses each group of related routes, based on microscopic parameters. It measures the kinematic cycles of the routes traveled by the vehicle fleet, segments cycles into micro‐cycles, and characterizes their properties, groups them into clusters with homogeneous kinematic characteristics within their specific micro‐cycles, and constructs a standard cycle for each cluster. The process is used to study public bus operations in Madrid.