Title: An Autonomous Modular Public Transit Service
Authors: Xi Cheng, Yu (Marco) Nie, Jane Lin
Abstract: In this work, we present a proof-of-concept investigation of Autonomous Modular Public Transit (AMPT) at a network scale and compare it with the traditional fixed-route, fixed-vehicle size transit service in terms of total cost, which consists of both agency’s capital and operational cost (including energy cost) and passenger time cost. We formulat...
Keywords: Autonomous Modular Vehicle Technology (AMVT); Autonomous Modular Public Transit (AMPT); Gridded fixed-route transit network; Pod; Joining/disjoining of pods; Agency and passenger costs