Improving service regularity for high-frequency bus services with rescheduling and bus holding

作     者：Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis Konstantinos Gkiotsalitis

作者机构：Centre for Transport StudiesDepartment of Civil EngineeringUniversity of TwenteEnschedeThe Netherlands 

出 版 物：《Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering(English Edition)》 (交通运输工程学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第8卷第5期

页      面：778-794页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 082303[工学-交通运输规划与管理] 082302[工学-交通信息工程及控制] 0823[工学-交通运输工程] 

主　　题：Traffic engineering Rescheduling Bus holding Dynamic control Combinatorial optimization Bus bunching 

摘      要：In high-frequency bus services,maintaining the service regularity is a critical *** service regularity is directly related to the excessive waiting times(EWT) of passengers at bus *** a regular service,the EWT is minimized resulting in even headways between consecutive buses of the same *** this study,we propose the combined use of rescheduling and bus holding to improve passengers’ excessive waiting *** model the dynamic rescheduling and bus holding problem as an integer nonlinear program(INLP) and we prove its *** model considers the constraints of the original timetable e an issue that is usually neglected from most dynamic control *** the NP-hardness of our mathematical program,we introduce a problem-specific heuristic to explore efficiently the solution *** convergence rate of the proposed heuristic is tested against other solution methods,including simulated annealing with linear cooling,hill climbing and branch and bound with multi-start sequential quadratic *** addition,simulations with the use of actual operational data from a major bus operator in Asia Pacific demonstrate an up to 35% potential EWT improvement for a minor increase of 6% to the travel times of onboard passengers.