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Indexed by:期刊论文

Date of Publication:2012-06-01

Journal:TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART C-EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

Included Journals:SCIE、EI、Scopus

Volume:22

Page Number:58-75

ISSN No.:0968-090X

Key Words:Transit network design; Demand density; Transfer coefficient; ACO

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. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.