Implementation and Evaluation of Customized Buses in a Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Environ-ment:Taking Customized Commuting Bus in Changsha as an Example
The existing literature on customized bus services mainly concentrated on route planning and tai-lored responses to specific demands.Nevertheless,enhancing the travel efficiency of customized buses is equally deserving of attention.The advantages of Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything(C-V2X)in detection ac-curacy and real-time transmission are beneficial for improving the travel efficiency of customized buses,and can provide data sources for evaluating the operation performance of customized buses.Firstly,based on the Internet positioning data,the steps for planning customized bus routes are clearly defined,and a pre-cise route selection philosophy is established.Meanwhile,a methodology for the signal priority system of customized buses is proposed based on C-V2X.Then,with the large amount of interaction data generated in a-V2X environment,the operation performance of customized buses is evaluated.The evaluation frame-work includes four evaluation dimensions,namely the level of travel demand carrying capacity,the level of improvement in commuting efficiency,the level of passenger travel experience,and the level of C-V2X service,and 14 detailed evaluation indicators are determined.Then the Analytical Hierarchy Process(AHP)is utilized to develop an evaluation scheme for performance evaluations.Finally,the example of customized commuting bus line from Meixi Lake to High-Tech Industrial Zone of Changsha is analyzed,and the rationality and applicability of the evaluation scheme were verified.