OPTIMAL DIMENSIONING OF TRAM PARKS IN PUBLIC URBAN COMPANIES

Abstract

The specific problems of the urban public transport system in the literature of the field are widely reflected; the main targets are to increase the efficiency, the quality of service and to reduce their impact on the environment. The electric driven transport is an alternative that may operate according to these targets. This article inscribes in the actual concerns dedicated to optimize the tram parks with which the urban public transport companies (UPTC) operate, using an optimizing criterion, which leads to an efficient and quality transport service. In this article, after evoking the importance of this concern, the mathematical model of optimization is elaborated in two variants (general and simplified). The proposed analysing model is for an applied UPTC that operates a mixed system (trams + buses), in real level of reliability conditions of trams.

Keywords

• urban public transport
• tram park
• optimization
• availability