Sustainable urban transit network design

Moschoula Pternea, Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou and Matthew G. Karlaftis

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2015, vol. 77, issue C, 276-291

Abstract: Sustainability is a requirement for modern public transportation networks, as these are expected to play a critical role in environment-friendly transportation systems. This paper focuses on developing an efficient model for solving a sustainable oriented variant of the Transit Route Network Design Problem. The model incorporates sustainable design objectives, considers emission-free (electric) vehicles and introduces a direct route design approach with route structure and directness control. An application in a real world case, highlights the performance and benefits of the proposed model.

Keywords: Transit network design; Sustainability; Emissions; Electric buses; Direct route design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2015.04.024

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