Transit is important for urban sustainable development, but the cost of providing transit services is high. Strategic planning for a public transit system is necessary to maximise the return of public investment. We develop a planning tool to aid decision-making about service area, using optimisation techniques for the Prize-Collecting Salesman problem and the concept of hierarchy of travel needs. We demonstrate the usefulness of the model for maximising service area under a given budget constraint and socioeconomic conditions, and suggest future research directions.


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    Title :

    A planning tool for maximising transit services


    Contributors:
    Ma, Yunfeng (author) / Li, Jianling (author) / Han, Chien-Pai (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2016-01-02


    Size :

    22 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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