A NOVEL MULTI-OBJECTIVE MATHEMATICAL MODEL FOR PLANNING AN AUXILIARY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NETWORK: A COVERING-ROUTING APPROACH

作者：Sedighy S Qaem^*; Shakouri Hamed; Rezaei Malek Mohammad

来源：Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research, 2015, 49(1).

• Auxiliary public transportation network
• Covering-routing problem
• Multi-objective optimization

This paper presents a new application of covering-routing problem for planning of an Auxiliary Public Transportation Network (APTN) to assist conventional network through satisfying additional demand during the time periods of peak traffic. The objective is to plan the APTN so that additional demand coverage is maximized, while the APTN costs are minimized, simultaneously. The main difference of the present work with the other applications of the covering-routing problem is that each bus station can be origin or destination of each passenger.In addition, this research demonstrates the applicability and usefulness of the developed model on a case study on the APTN planning for an urban area in Tehran metropolis, Iran, following different scenarios. It applies epsilon-constraint method to solve the proposed multi-objective model and to present Pareto frontier solutions. This work provides practitioners, specifically planning teams, with a new approach to assist with the APTN planning and improve their logistics decisions.

• 出版日期2015