Transit route network design‐maximizing direct and transfer demand density

Transit route network design‐maximizing direct and transfer demand density

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Article ID: iaor20122370
Volume: 22
Start Page Number: 58
End Page Number: 75
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Journal: Transportation Research Part C
Authors: , , , ,
Keywords: heuristics: ant systems, combinatorial optimization, demand
Abstract:

Transit network design is an important part of urban transportation planning. The purpose of this paper is to build on direct traveler density model and extend it to design transit network considering demand density relating to direct demands and transfers, and lengths of routes. The proposed method aiming to maximize demand density of route under some resource constraints divides transit network design problem into three stages, i.e., skeleton route design, main route design and branch route design, based on the objective functions with different transfer coefficients. An ant colony optimization (ACO) is used to solve the model. The model and algorithm are illustrated with data from Dalian city, China and results show that the approach can improve the solution quality if the transfer coefficient is reasonably set.

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