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A demand-responsive feeder service with a maximum headway at mandatory stops

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  • GALARZA MONTENEGRO, Bryan David
  • SÖRENSEN, Kenneth
  • VANSTEENWEGEN, Pieter

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Public transportation out of suburban or rural areas is crucial. Feeder transportation services offer a solution by transporting passengers to areas where more options for public transport are available. On one hand, fully flexible demand-responsive feeder services efficiently tailor their service to the needs of the passengers. On the other hand, traditional feeder services provide predictability and easier cost control. In this paper, a semi-flexible demand-responsive feeder service is considered, which combines positive characteristics of both traditional services as well as fully flexible services. This feeder service has two types of bus stops: mandatory bus stops and optional bus stops. Mandatory bus stops are guaranteed to be visited by a bus within a certain time interval. Optional stops are only visited when there is demand for transportation nearby. The performance of this feeder service is optimized with the use of a heuristic that combines elements of different metaheuristic frameworks. Experimental results on small benchmark instances indicate that the heuristic performs on average 12.42% better than LocalSolver, a commercial optimization solver, with an average runtime of 2.1s. Larger instances can also be solved, typically within two minutes.

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  • GALARZA MONTENEGRO, Bryan David & SÖRENSEN, Kenneth & VANSTEENWEGEN, Pieter, 2023. "A demand-responsive feeder service with a maximum headway at mandatory stops," Working Papers 2023001, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics.
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