Generation and design heuristics for zonal express services |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Botany, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong 793022, India;2. Department of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, India;1. Van der Waals – Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Energy Research Center of the Netherlands (ECN), P.O. Box 1, 1755 ZG Petten, The Netherlands;1. Department of Occupational Health and Radiation Health, Chongqing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chongqing 400042, China;2. Xiejiawan Street Community Health Service Center, Chongqing 400042, China;1. Department of Mathematics and Applications, University Federico II of Naples, Complesso Monte S. Angelo, Via Cintia – 80126 Naples, Italy;2. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University, Technická 2 – 166 27 Prague, Czech Republic |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | Public transport Network design Route design Express services Zonal services Bus Rapid Transit |
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