Simulation based scheduling in Istanbul bus rapid transit system

Population differences between regions have happened with the impact of factors such as Industry, suitable climatic conditions, tourism and transportation. The public transport has become more complicated in terms of both ones who service and ones who get service especially in a metropolitan city such as Istanbul day by day. It is obvious that this complicated form should be improved for both ones who service and ones who get service, having been made this improvement with a stochastic schedule based on simulation will make the system more ideal. Having carried out the system to be modelled by using Arena simulation software in the scope of this study, the system will be analyzed with diverse scenarios. However, it is required some data such as inter-arrival times of passengers, inter-stops times, capacity of bus in order to run the model and statistical distributions of some of them will be determined. With the achivement of a ideal scheduling, it's aimed to meet the satisfaction of passengers who received service in the Metrobus line, have an ideal working time in terms of drivers and determine the state to see if Metrobus line will meet the growing density in the coming years.