Efficiency Assessment of Optimizing the Urban Passenger Transport Schedule on Duplicating Stretches in the City of Gomel

The article presents a new alignment technique of time intervals between consecutive vehicles of different routes on duplicating stretches, taking into account existing public transport network in attaining optimization of public transport schedule. The adjusting technique of urban passenger transport schedule allows to increase movement steadiness of consecutive vehicles of different routes on duplicating stretches, adjust traffic intervals for each route, shorten the traffic load on stations, reducing idle time and queue lengths of route vehicles in front of transport stops and also minimize waiting time for route vehicle by those passengers, who can be transported along several routes. Improving the bus schedule on duplicating stretches in Gomel is illustrated to demonstrate the adjusting technique of urban passenger transport schedule. The obtained optimization results may be used by Open Joint Stock Company “Gomeloblavtotrans” for improving the quality of public passenger transportation.