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.
A planning tool for maximising transit services
Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics ; 4 , 1 ; 1-22
2016-01-02
22 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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