Time Saving of Bus Passengers Using Contactless Smart Card

• Main Authors: Chia-Lin Tsai, 蔡佳伶
• Other Authors: Shou-min Tsao
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11134625983199826395

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 土木工程學研究所 === 92 === The benefit of promoting contactless smart card system contains three parts: bus passengers’ benefit, bus operators’ benefit, and the government’s benefit. Because of contactless smart card making bus passengers’ time of getting on and off reduced, which can increase efficiency of bus operators and further solve the problem of congestion, the benefit of time saving is the major benefit mentioned by all of them. Literatures show that only the time of getting on and off is considered while analyzing the time saving benefit. This study supposes that whole benefit of using contactless smart card should include time saving of passengers getting on and off and the waiting time saving of passengers having been in the vehicle and waiting to getting on. The formula of bus passengers’ time saving benefit was built by different charge rules of Taipei co-operation bus, which implies that bus passengers’ time saving benefit varies with total passengers per frequency and riding distance per passenger. Three scenarios were set in this study to estimate the benefit of time saving. By contrast with results in literatures, it found that value is twenty to seventy times higher. The difference between them is the consideration of average passengers in vehicle, which refers to underestimation of the past results.