The Bus Rapid Transit investment problem
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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Date
2024-07
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en
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25
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Computers and Operations Research, Volume 167, pp. 1-25
Abstract
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems can provide a fast and reliable service to passengers at low investment costs compared to tram, metro and train systems. Therefore, they can be of great value to attract more passengers to use public transport. This paper thus focuses on the BRT investment problem: Which segments of a single bus line should be upgraded such that the number of newly attracted passengers is maximized? Motivated by the construction of a new BRT line around Copenhagen, we consider a setting in which multiple parties are responsible for the financing of different segments of the line. As each party has a limited willingness to invest, we solve a bi-objective problem to quantify the trade-off between the number of attracted passengers and the investment budget. We model different problem variants: First, we consider two potential passenger responses to upgrades on the line. Second, to prevent scattered upgrades along the line, we consider different restrictions on the number of upgraded connected components on the line. We propose an epsilon-constraint-based algorithm to enumerate the complete set of non-dominated points and investigate the complexity of this problem. Moreover, we perform extensive numerical experiments on artificial instances and a case study based on the BRT line around Copenhagen. Our results show that we can generate the full Pareto front for real-life instances and that the resulting trade-off between investment budget and attracted passengers depends both on the origin–destination demand and on the passenger response to upgrades. Moreover, we illustrate how the generated Pareto plots can assist decision makers in selecting from a set of geographical route alternatives in our case study.Description
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Bi-objective optimization, Bus rapid transit, Network design, Public transport
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Hoogervorst, R, Hurk, E V D, Schiewe, P, Schöbel, A & Urban, R 2024, ' The Bus Rapid Transit investment problem ', Computers and Operations Research, vol. 167, 106640, pp. 1-25 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2024.106640
