Abstract
Access roads of transfer points, such as railway stations, can be a bottleneck due to conflicts between different road users coming to the transfer stations. Congestions from the bottleneck may propagate to other arterial roads. Kiss-and-ride vehicles, as one of the user types, are able to choose their stop positions freely on the access road, while their characteristics and how they affect on congestions are unknown. The purpose of this research is to clarify the relationship between stop position choice behavior of picking- up or dropping-off vehicles and queueing patterns at the access road, and to build a simulation model which quantitatively represents the queueing phenomena. From the survey data analysis, it was found that distribution of stopping duration varies by time of the day and the double parking of vehicles with relatively shorter stopping duration causes queue occurrence. The proposed simulation with stopping position choice including double-parking maneuver was able to represent various queueing patterns at the access road.
