Comparison of Public Transport Network Design Methodologies Using Solution-Quality Evaluation

Abedin, Zain Ul; Busch, Fritz; Wang, David Z.W.; Rau, Andreas; Du, Bo

doi:10.1061/jtepbs.0000159

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“…One route set consists of a predefined number of stop sequences which can be used to define a transit network. As our work is focusing on the transit routing problem, interesting readers for other transit network planning problems can refer to Guihaire and Hao [19], Kepaptsoglou and Karlaftis [20], Farahani et al [21], Abedin et al [22], and Liu and Ceder [23]. Lampkin and Saalmans [24] first designed a heuristic algorithm to generate route set.…”

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Application of Modified NSGA-II to the Transit Network Design Problem

Yang

Jiang

2020

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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The transit network design problem involves determining a certain number of routes to operate in an urban area to balance the costs of the passengers and the operator. In this paper, we simultaneously determine the route structure of each route and the number of routes in the final solution. A novel initial route set generation algorithm and a route set size alternating heuristic are embedded into a nondominated sorting genetic algorithm-II- (NSGA-II-) based solution framework to produce the approximate Pareto front. The initial route set generation algorithm aims to generate high-quality initial solutions for succeeding optimization procedures. To explore the solution space and to have solutions with a different number of routes, a route set size alternating heuristic is developed to change the number of routes in a solution by adding or deleting one route. Experiments were performed on Mandl’s network and four larger Mumford’s networks. Compared with a fixed route set size approach, the proposed NSGA-II-based solution method can produce an approximate Pareto front with much higher solution quality as well as improved computation efficiency.

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Section: Initialization Procedurementioning

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Application of Modified NSGA-II to the Transit Network Design Problem

Yang

Jiang

2020

Journal of Advanced Transportation

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“…They have used different methods for their evaluation. The service quality using the users' perception of bus transit service was analyzed by Sinha et al [2]; Filipovic et al [10]; Yaya et al [11]; Eboli and Mazzulla [12]; Eboli and Mazzulla [13]; Fellesson and Friman [14]; Eboli and Mazzulla [15]; Dell'Olio et al [16] Morton et al [24]; Abedin et al [25]; and many others.…”

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Comparative Assessment of Service Quality of IPT Modes in Urban India

Ansari¹,

Sinha²

2020

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This paper carries out a comparative assessment of service quality of intermediate public transport (IPT) modes namely auto-rickshaws and e-rickshaws through users' perception.A questionnaire-based survey was carried out to collect users' data about the importance and satisfaction on a six-point Likert scale. A total number of 856 filled questionnaires were taken and analyzed using Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA). The analysis showed that the attributes of security, convenience for elderly and differently-abled people, and safety of female users, especially during night hours were assigned high importance but low satisfaction with both IPT modes. Further, it was also found that on-board illumination inside the vehicle at night for auto-rickshaw and safety concern for e-rickshaw was also rated with high importance but with low satisfaction. In order to increase the patronage of these IPT modes and improve their service quality, the above attributes were needed to be addressed on a priority basis. The attributes having a high satisfaction need to be maintained at least at the existing levels. The findings of the study shall be useful for policy makers and operators in planning and improvement of the transportation systems of mid-sized cities of developing countries.

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“…Existing public transport network design (Mandl 1980;Ceder and Wilson 1986;Pattnaik, Mohan, and Tom 1998;Borndörfer, Grötschel, and Pfetsch 2007;Szeto and Wu 2011;Ul Abedin et al 2018) and frequency setting (Gkiotsalitis and Cats 2018;Sun and Szeto 2019;Gkiotsalitis, Wu, and Cats 2019) methods cannot answer the above-mentioned research question because they consider only the trade-off between operational costs (e.g. running costs, in-vehicle occupancy levels) and passenger-related costs (e.g.waiting times at stations, total trip travel times).…”

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Optimal frequency setting of metro services in the age of COVID-19 distancing measures

Gkiotsalitis

Cats

2021

Transportmetrica A: Transport Science

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Public transport is one of the most disrupted sectors of the COVID-19 pandemic with reported ridership drops up to 90% in majorly affected countries. As many government authorities strive to partially resume activities, public transport operators are in an urgent need for models that can evaluate the impact of different social distancing policies on operational and passenger-related costs. In this study, we introduce a mixed-integer quadratic programming model for the redesign of public transport services considering the operational, passenger, and revenue loss-related costs by evaluating the effects of different social distancing policies. Our model is applied at the metro network of Washington DC and provides optimal redistribution of vehicles across lines for different social distancing scenarios. This model can be used as a decision support tool by other policymakers and public transport operators that are in need of evaluating the costs related to the implementation of different social distancing policies.

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Comparison of Public Transport Network Design Methodologies Using Solution-Quality Evaluation

Cited by 8 publications

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Application of Modified NSGA-II to the Transit Network Design Problem

Application of Modified NSGA-II to the Transit Network Design Problem

Comparative Assessment of Service Quality of IPT Modes in Urban India

Optimal frequency setting of metro services in the age of COVID-19 distancing measures

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