establishing a network of transit routes with satisfactory demand coverage is one of the main goals of transitagencies in moving towards a sustainable urban development. a primary concern in obtaining such anetwork is reducing operational costs. this paper deals with the problem of minimizing construction costsin a grid transportation network while satisfying a certain level of demand coverage....

afghanistan is a land-locked country that depends on its neighboring countries to transit essential commodities. iran, for its proximity and access to the high seas, seems to have the most economical route to meet afghanistan’s needs. however, this country did not pursue such an economical route due to its western tendencies and its foreign policies which were completely different with iran’s. ...

Transit network conditions change everyday. While those changes should be considered for modifying a transit network, formulating and optimizing the whole transit network may be a costly, difficult task. This article uses a developed transit network design model to examine how optimal transit networks should be developed based on changes in input elements of the transit network. Three major inp...

Majority of the million plus cities in India are facing serious problems of traffic congestion and pollution due to the unprecedented and rapid pace of urbanization in last decade. City planners are providing solution to these twin problems by developing Mass Rapid Transit System including Metro and BRT in many Indian Metropolitan cities. The availability of transit network and pedestrian acces...

The present paper deals with the transit network design problem related to the feeder bus lines defined as transit services for connecting suburban areas, where the demand has to be gathered, with the stops of the mass transit network, usually railway or underground stations. The objective of the research is the development of a procedure that simultaneously generates routes and frequencies of ...

Planning new transit routes and refining existing routes often requires the calculation of the transit dependant socio-economic characteristics of potential passengers. The most common method used to derive the social profile for potential passengers is to create buffers around the transit routes and use Census data collected by the statistics bureau, which in this case is the Australian Bureau...

• Produces optimized non-uniform set of speed levels • Enables dynamic, traffic-responsive grouping • Reduces transit times and attack rates compared to the existing group transit scheme with fixed schedules and uniform speed levels Randomized Transit Routing • Randomizes vessel transit routes to make them maximally unpredictable and reduces attack rates • Utilizes the transit game model (twopl...

The design of public transportation networks is complex and can include conflicting objectives. Networks designed to minimise travel time may not fulfil the requirement of maximum coverage and accessibility. In this context, a multi-criteria approach for transit alignment design has been developed to maximise a range of objectives using census data. Whenever a subdivision is developed in a subu...

This article presents a new method for determining optimal transit routes. The Transit Route Arc-Node Service Maximization model is a mathematical model that maximizes the service value of a route, rather than minimizing cost. Cost (distance) is considered as a budget constraint on the extent of the route. The mathematical formulation modifies and exploits the structure of linear programming pr...

With little investment required for operating in streets, bus services are often designed to serve many overlapping routes with frequent stops. To upgrade services and attract choice riders, major bus routes should be provided with exclusive lanes, preferential signals, and fewer but more distinct stops. The Federal Transit Administration’s (FTA) Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) program is aimed at upgr...