Modeling Bus Stops in Transit Networks: A Survey and New Formulations

Belgacem Bouzaïene-Ayari, Michel Gendreau and Sang Nguyen
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Belgacem Bouzaïene-Ayari: Centre de Recherche sur les Transports and Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Canada H3C 3J7
Michel Gendreau: Centre de Recherche sur les Transports and Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Canada H3C 3J7
Sang Nguyen: Centre de Recherche sur les Transports and Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, Canada H3C 3J7

Transportation Science, 2001, vol. 35, issue 3, 304-321

Abstract: In this paper, we undertake a detailed study of the bus stop problem in congested transit networks. In the first part of the paper, we present and discuss the bus stop models existing in the literature. In the second part, we propose a new general model for which we prove a number of good properties and we give equivalent formulations. Then, we examine two special cases of the general model. In the first case, the line capacities are considered limited and therefore they can not be exceeded by the on-board passenger flows. In the second case, the strict capacity constraints are relaxed in order to obtain a stop model that can be easily integrated into an assignment model to predict the global passenger behavior in transit networks.

Date: 2001
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