Urban public transport systems must periodically close certain links for maintenance, which can have significant effects on the service provided to passengers. In practice, the effects of closures are mitigated by replacing the closed links with a simple shuttle service. However, alternative shuttle services could reduce inconvenience at a lower operating cost. This paper proposes a model to select shuttle lines and frequencies under budget constraints. We propose a new formulation that allows a minimal frequency restriction on any line that is operated and minimizes passenger inconvenience cost, which includes transfers and frequency-dependent waiting time costs. This model is applied to a shuttle design problem based on a real-world case study of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority network of Boston, Massachusetts. The results show that additional shuttle routes can reduce passenger delay compared to the standard industry practice, while also distributing delay more equally over passengers, at the same operating budget. The results are robust under different assumptions about passenger route choice behavior. Computational experiments show that the proposed formulation, coupled with a preprocessing step, can be solved faster than prior formulations.


    Zugriff

    Zugriff über TIB

    Verfügbarkeit in meiner Bibliothek prüfen

    Bestellung bei Subito €


    Exportieren, teilen und zitieren



    Titel :

    Shuttle Planning for Link Closures in Urban Public Transport Networks



    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2016




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Print


    Sprache :

    Englisch



    Klassifikation :

    Lokalklassifikation TIB:    770/1935/7000
    BKL:    55.80 / 55.80 Verkehrswesen, Transportwesen: Allgemeines



    Shuttle Planning for Link Closures in Urban Public Transport Networks

    van der Hurk, Evelien / Koutsopoulos, Haris N. / Wilson, Nigel et al. | British Library Online Contents | 2016


    Urban Public Transport Planning Strategies

    Gordana Štefančić / Josip Gracin / Mladenko Kordić | DOAJ | 2012

    Freier Zugriff

    Models in Planning Urban Public Passenger Transport

    Gordana Štefančić / Ninoslav Nogić / Drago Bago | DOAJ | 2007

    Freier Zugriff

    Study on Urban Public Transport Information Platform Planning

    Wang, X.-K. / Rao, Q.-L. / Chen, W.-Q. et al. | British Library Conference Proceedings | 2010


    Traffic and Planning Aspects of Public Urban Transport

    Vladimir Marić / Zvonko Kavran / Dražen Kovačević | DOAJ | 2004

    Freier Zugriff