An objective understanding of the impacts of such anthropogenic activities demands the formulation of quantitative tools to measure the benefits and the impacts.

Hence, it results in an immediate need to understand the impacts and devise strategies to ensure coastal sustainability. Coastal tourism is one of the dominant economic activities in coastal areas, often susceptible to overexploitation through unregulated anthropogenic activities. This paper attempts to perform a sustainability assessment of coastal tourism in a region through quantitative measurement tools. Based on the analysis, possible scenarios are assumed, and new travel times are discussed along with savings in travel time. A social cost function is created to calculate the social cost of the operations. The study assumes the travel demand of the corridor to be constant. A methodology is demonstrated for determining the suitable accelerated operations, i.e., skip-stop, zonal, and express operations and to compare the social cost involved with the operations to the existing normal operations. The introduction of accelerated operations for bus transit will not only reduce the travel time of the passengers but will also help in increasing the comfort factor of passengers, this will lead to the increase in ridership of the bus transit and will make the bus services more efficient The research aims to identify suitable accelerated operations for the public transit corridor and evaluate these operations based on travel time and travel cost. The existing intercity public bus transit system can be improved by accelerated transit operation and reduce the travel time.

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