Method for initial assessment of unit costs of public city transport means operation

Abstract

The study deals with the problems connected with modeling and simulation of technical objects operation processes carried out within a certain class of complex technical systems. The analyzed system is a city bus transport system. The study presents a method for assessment of unit costs involved in a technical object’s being in selected operational states. One of the subsets of data to be used for modeling the process of a technical object operational state changes, includes data concerning the costs borne by the system when the object is in the analyzed operational states. In order to determine this data, it is often necessary to modify the system of costs registration used in a given operation system. Since it is a very expensive and log process, a method of initial assessment of indispensable data has been proposed, on the basis of a costs registration method and simulation of the operation process. The study also includes basic assumptions of the operation process model, being an important element of the developed method. The assumptions of the operation model have been formulated on the basis of identification of a real operation system of city bus transport system and experimental tests carried out in system.