Personal rapid transit (PRT) is a kind of innovative public transport service operated by autonomous vehicles on a dedicated guideway network. In the situation, where PRT guideway network is composed of unidirectional links, the congestion degree of network and vehicle travel distance depend on the arrangement of link directions, given certain traffic demand and network configuration. The motivation of this paper is to propose a method to optimize the link direction of PRT network for enhancing system performance. The proposed optimization problem considers both the vehicle travel time and waiting time at merging nodes as the optimization objective and is formulated as a non-linear programming model. A linear approximation-based solution method is further developed to obtain solutions in an efficient way and the exact solution is achieved via this method. The result shows that the proposed method is effective to find an optimized arrangement of link directions in the network given certain travel demand and network configuration. The computational results of the proposed model in comparison to other models are presented and discussed, which show that the significant reduction of waiting time does not necessarily lead to the high increase of travel time, suggesting the importance of congestion control for merging modes.


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    Title :

    Optimizing the Link Directions of Personal Rapid Transit Network


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    Publication date :

    2018-10-01


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    1349014 byte




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    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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