Flexible feeder transit route design to enhance service accessibility in urban area

Lu, Xiaolin; Yu, Jie; Yang, Xianfeng; Pan, Shuliang; Zou, Nan

doi:10.1002/atr.1357

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“…Similar to a taxi, DRT has the opportunity to complement general public transport services [37]. By integrating FRT's cost efficiency and DRT's flexibility, feeder buses were allowed to temporarily deviate from the given route in order to serve reported travel demands [38].…”

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Feeder Bus Accessibility Modeling and Evaluation

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To improve first/last mile travel services between metro stations and communities, this study modeled and analyzed four kinds of feeder bus operation strategies in terms of travel time and accessibility. The analytical modeling was used to compare the travel times and the simulation experiments were used to compare the accessibilities of different operation strategies. The results showed that when the ratio between length and width of study area increases, the number of stops for the fixed route transit with fixed stops will increase. When the travel demand is low, the demand responsive transit with separate routes has the highest accessibility. When the travel demand is high, the fixed route transit with fixed stops provides the highest accessibility. In addition, the ratio of flows in two passenger directions has different influences on the four operation strategies. This study can provide guidance for feeder bus operation to improve public transportation attraction.

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Feeder Bus Accessibility Modeling and Evaluation

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“…The results demonstrate that vehicle routing modelling and an optimised algorithm can confidently handle the daily operation of demand-responsive connector services with on-demand stations. There is an interesting solution for urban areas [14] with flexible feeder transit routing model that can serve irregular shaped networks. This approach with some constraint can be feasible in rural areas.…”

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Integrated Passenger Transport System in Rural Areas – A Literature Review

Maretić

Abramović

2020

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The planning and organisation of public passenger transport in rural areas is a complex process. The transport demand in rural areas is often low, which makes it hard to establish and run a financially sustainable public transport system. A solution is integrated passenger transport that eliminates deficiencies and provides benefits for all participants in the public passenger transport process. This paper describes the impact of integrated passenger transport on mobility in rural areas and critically evaluates different literature sources. Integration of passenger transport in urban areas has been described in the context of rural areas, and the challenges of integration of public passenger transport specific to rural areas have been analysed. Through the application in urban and rural areas, the planning of integrated and non-integrated passenger transport has been functionally analysed. The analysis found an increase in the degree of mobility in the areas that use integrated passenger transport compared to the non-integrated one. This research of the literature review has identified the rural areas of mobility as under-researched. The mobility research can set up a more efficient passenger transport planning system in rural areas.

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“…Other relevant studies on DRTs address the coordination between design of the passenger rail service, station spacing, the design of bus routes, and headways using integrated, robust, and bi-level programming optimization [22][23][24][25]. The above varieties of DRTs are addressed from various objectives, including minimizing the operating costs of the fleet [3,11,26], the shortest length or travel time of the route [27,28], the minimal fleet size required for shuttle service [1,22], ride time, and waiting time of passengers [4,15]. Fortunately, these objectives normally do not affect the properties of DRTs and, thus, similar models and algorithms can be adopted to solve the problem with different objectives.…”

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“…Some scholars have tried to develop route-building heuristics by first generating a set of feasible routes, before searching fine-tuned initial solutions [3,4,28,32]. Furthermore, these developed route-building-based heuristics, which are the three most widely used metaheuristics, are often adopted to contend with VRPTW, including evolutionary algorithm [26], genetic algorithms [27,[32][33][34][35] and table search [36][37][38][39].…”

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Optimal Design of Demand-Responsive Feeder Transit Services with Passengers’ Multiple Time Windows and Satisfaction

2018

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This paper presents a mixed-integer linear programming model for demand-responsive feeder transit services to assign vehicles located at different depots to pick up passengers at the demand points and transport them to the rail station. The proposed model features passengers' one or several preferred time windows for boarding vehicles at the demand point and their expected ride time. Moreover, passenger satisfaction that was related only to expected ride time is fully accounted for in the model. The objective is to simultaneously minimize the operation costs of total mileage and maximize passenger satisfaction. As the problem is an extension of the nondeterministic polynomial problem with integration of the vehicle route problem, this study further develops an improved bat algorithm to yield meta-optimal solutions for the model in a reasonable amount of time. When this was applied to a case study in Nanjing City, China, the mileage and satisfaction of the proposed model were reduced by 1.4 km and increased by 7.1%, respectively, compared with the traditional model. Sensitivity analyses were also performed to investigate the impact of the number of designed bus routes and weights of objective functions on the model performance. Finally, a comparison of Cplex, standard bat algorithm, and group search optimizer is analyzed to verify the validity of the proposed algorithm.

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Flexible feeder transit route design to enhance service accessibility in urban area

Cited by 35 publications

References 18 publications

Feeder Bus Accessibility Modeling and Evaluation

Feeder Bus Accessibility Modeling and Evaluation

Integrated Passenger Transport System in Rural Areas – A Literature Review

Optimal Design of Demand-Responsive Feeder Transit Services with Passengers’ Multiple Time Windows and Satisfaction

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