Bus Network Design and Frequency Setting in the Post-COVID-19 Pandemic

The Case of London

Journal article (2023)

Authors

Manuel Filgueiras Universidade do Porto
Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis University of Twente
M.D. Yap Transport and Planning - CEG
O. Cats Transport and Planning - CEG
António Lobo Universidade do Porto
Sara Ferreira Universidade do Porto
Research Group
Transport and Planning (CEG) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2023 Manuel Filgueiras, Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis, M.D. Yap, O. Cats, António Lobo, Sara Ferreira
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https://doi.org/10.1061/JTEPBS.TEENG-7176
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Civil Engineering & Geosciences

Department

Transport and Planning

Research Group

Transport and Planning

Abstract

A transit network design frequency setting model is proposed to cope with the postpandemic passenger demand. The multiobjective transit network design and frequency setting problem (TNDFSP) seeks to find optimal routes and their associated frequencies to operate public transport services in an urban area. The objective is to redesign the public transport network to minimize passenger costs without incurring massive changes to its former composition. The proposed TNDFSP model includes a route generation algorithm (RGA) that generates newlines in addition to the existing lines to serve the most demanding trips, and passenger assignment (PA) and frequency setting (FS) mixed-integer programming models that distribute the demand through the modified bus network and set the optimal number of buses for each line. Computational experiments were conducted on a test network and the network comprising the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London.