Average spacing increased from approximately 200 to 400 meters.
Passengers’ average walking time increased 0.60 minutes yet their in-vehicle times declined 1.8
minutes. Average vehicle running times declined 4.3 minutes per trip. Under the optimal stop
spacing solution, the combined savings to passengers and the agency was estimated to be $132
per hour.
Their
findings in the latter case yielded optimal stop spacing distances of 600 meters for the small city
case and 800 meters for the large city case. These distances were about twice as great as the
observed distances in selected systems in the Netherlands and other western European cities.
