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Optimal transit service atop ring-radial and grid street networks: A continuum approximation design method and comparisons

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  • Chen, Haoyu
  • Gu, Weihua
  • Cassidy, Michael J.
  • Daganzo, Carlos F.

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Two continuum approximation (CA) optimization models are formulated to design city-wide transit systems at minimum cost. Transit routes are assumed to lie atop a city’s street network. Model 1 assumes that the city streets are laid out in ring-radial fashion. Model 2 assumes that the city streets form a grid. Both models can furnish hybrid designs, which exhibit intersecting routes in a city’s central (downtown) district and only radial branching routes in the periphery. Model 1 allows the service frequency and the route spacing at a location to vary arbitrarily with the location’s distance from the center. Model 2 also allows such variation but in the periphery only.

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  • Chen, Haoyu & Gu, Weihua & Cassidy, Michael J. & Daganzo, Carlos F., 2015. "Optimal transit service atop ring-radial and grid street networks: A continuum approximation design method and comparisons," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 81(P3), pages 755-774.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:transb:v:81:y:2015:i:p3:p:755-774
    DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2015.06.012
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