The coronavirus pandemic changed paratransit service dramatically, with most operators eliminating shared rides to halt disease transmission. This paper applies an estimate of disease contact exposure to actual data from New York City’s Access-A-Ride (AAR) paratransit system. Scenario analyses performed using insertion heuristic trip construction showed that eliminating rideshare on the AAR system increased operating miles by 70%. We also showed contact exposure can be significantly limited (by ∼50% to 60%) by reducing vehicle capacity from 4 to 2 passengers. Manipulating the maximum ride time factor also showed the potential to reduce contact exposure, with a 50% increase of the ratio from 2 to 3 leading to a 40% increase in contact exposure. Contact exposure was relatively insensitive to changes in the maximum wait time policy.


    Access

    Download

    Check availability in my library

    Order at Subito €


    Export, share and cite



    Title :

    Paratransit Shared-Ride Capacity Design With Infectious Disease Contact Exposure


    Additional title:

    Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    2022-05-05




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



    Ride Shared Vehicle Paratransit System

    T. Au / D. M. B. Baumann | NTIS | 1977




    Paratransit

    Vuchic, Vukan R. | Wiley | 2007


    Paratransit

    TIBKAT | 1979