Title of article :
Fleet Size and Frequency in Rapid Transit Systems
Author/Authors :
De los Santos, Alicia Department of Applied Mathematics II - University of Seville, Spain , Mahmoodjanlou, Ahmad Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Behshar, Iran , Mesa, Juan A Department of Applied Mathematics II - University of Seville, Spain , Perea, Federico Department of Applied Statistics, Operations Research and Quality - Polytechnical University of Valencia, Spain
Abstract :
Given is a set of stations linked by railway tracks, forming an undirected
railway network. One or more lines are formed in this network.
Each line consists of an origin station, a destination station, and a number
of intermediate stations. In order to complete the line configuration,
it is needed to decide the frequency (number of services per hour) and the
capacity (number of carriages) for each train. This problem is called the
line frequency and capacity setting. In this work, an IL based algorithm for
solving this problem when the objective function is the net profit, is
proposed. A version of this problem that takes into account the passenger
behavior is also considered. Finally, some computational results are
presented.
Keywords :
Railway rapid transit planning , Optimum network design , Multi-commodity flow , Logit function , Sequential planning
Journal title :
Astroparticle Physics
