A novel bilevel programming model for designing feeder bus routes to simultaneously consider bus stop selection, bus routing, and passenger route/trip choice behavior is developed in this work. The objective of the upper-level model is to minimize the total in-vehicle travel time of passengers. The objective of the lower-level model is to determine bus stop locations and assign passenger demand to stops by minimizing the total passenger walking time. An ant colony optimization-based two-stage heuristic algorithm is developed to solve the bilevel programming model within an acceptance computation time. Different from conventional methods, the proposed methodology benefits from using real temporal and spatial characteristic datasets of travel demand aggregated from cellular data and traveling time and distance matrices under actual traffic conditions resulted from an open geographic information system (GIS) tool. Results of a real-life case study in Chongqing municipality, China, show that the proposed methodology could achieve a significant reduction of 2.9% total passenger travel time compared with a traditional method. Finally, sensitivity analyses are conducted to further understand the performance of the model. It is anticipated that the proposed methodology could be very useful in designing attractive and cost-effective feeder transit service in practice.


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    Title :

    Optimal Routing Design of Feeder Transit With Stop Selection Using Aggregated Cell Phone Data and Open Source GIS Tool


    Contributors:
    Wei, Ming (author) / Liu, Tao (author) / Sun, Bo (author)


    Publication date :

    2021-04-01


    Size :

    2551979 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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