Designing a Flexible Feeder Transit System Serving Irregularly Shaped and Gated Communities: Determining Service Area and Feeder Route Planning

作者：Pan, Shuliang; Yu, Jie^*; Yang, Xianfeng; Liu, Yue; Zou, Nan

来源：Journal of Urban Planning and Development, 2015, 141(3): 04014028.

DOI：10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000224

• Public transit
• Flexible feeder transit service
• Irregularly shaped and gated communities
• Service area
• Gravity-based method

This paper presents a mathematical model to design the appropriate service area and routing plans for a flexible feeder transit system serving irregularly shaped and gated communities. Given the fleet size and travel times between demand collection nodes, a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model is developed to optimize the service area and transit route planning concurrently. The proposed model features a two-level structure with an upper level to maximize the number of served passengers by the feeder transit system and a lower level to minimize the operational cost for transit operators. This paper further presents a heuristic approach to yield acceptable solutions to the model in a reasonable amount of time. Case study results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed model as well as the heuristic solution approach.

• 出版日期2015-9
• 单位山东大学