When Periodic Timetables Are Suboptimal

Ralf Borndörfer () and Christian Liebchen ()
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Ralf Borndörfer: Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin
Christian Liebchen: Technische Universität Berlin

A chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2007, 2008, pp 449-454 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract “The timetable is the essence of the service offered by any provider of public transport” (Jonathan Tyler, CASPT 2006). Indeed, the timetable has a major impact on both operating costs and on passenger comfort. Most European agglomerations and railways use periodic timetables in which operation repeats in regular intervals. In contrast, many North and South American municipalities use trip timetables in which the vehicle trips are scheduled individually subject to frequency constraints. We compare these two strategies with respect to vehicle operation costs. It turns out that for short time horizons, periodic timetabling can be suboptimal; for sufficiently long time horizons, however, periodic timetabling can always be done ‘in an optimal way’.

Keywords: Public Transport; Terminus Station; Timetabling Problem; Short Time Horizon; Frequency Constraint (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77903-2_69

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