Simulation models for public transportation: a state-of-the-art review
Carmen Angelina García-Cerrud, Idalia Flores
Abstract
This article presents a state-of-the-art review regarding transport simulation models currently developed. To identify the variables and types of models in transport simulation and how the operational characteristics and its associated energy consumption and emissions generation merge in a simulation that aids the decision-making process regarding energy consumption. Several simulation models are addressed and studied to propose a new simulation incorporating energy consumption and emission. In specific for public passenger transport, since it is the mean of movement in urban areas and improvements to its energy consumption and emission needs to be addressed to meet the sustainability goals by minimizing the externalities it produces.