Generation and design heuristics for zonal express services

Homero Larrain

Juan Carlos Muñoz

Ricardo Giesen

Journal Article

10.1016/j.tre.2015.04.008

1366-5545

A methodology is presented for designing zonal services for a bus corridor, in which buses visit all stops in a route’s initial and final segments, skipping all stops in between. Two heuristics are described, one for congested (binding capacity) and other for uncongested cases. An experiment on a bidirectional corridor shows that the heuristics can find savings in social costs of 6.6% and 10.3% when compared to an express-service-only solution. We also show that, in some cases, the zonal service design problem can be solved analytically, outperforming the heuristics. This suggests the two approaches could be employed in tandem.

2015-12-28 21:42:58

July 2015

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

ScienceDirect

201-212

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Generation and design heuristics for zonal express services

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1366554515000976

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