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Optimising public bus services: robust network design and timetabling

In this research, we will focus on the robustness of public bus services. The idea is to incorporate robustness in the design phase of a public bus service network. This means we optimise the travel time for users in practice. This differs from the usual approach since we accept that small delays and disturbances happen and take them into account when doing our line planning. Creating a bus service contains four steps: determining the demand, designing the network or line planning, setting the timetable and assigning the drivers and available material. In this research, we only look at the line planning stage. Because we are working with delays and their impact, we also need to set the frequencies of each bus line. In a later stage the timetabling aspect might be added to the scope. So at the moment this research aims at mathematically optimising the 'Transport network design and frequencies settings problem' TNDFSP with robustness.

Date:1 Jan 2016 →  31 Dec 2019
Keywords:public bus services, robust network design, timetabling
Disciplines:Automotive engineering