An integrated approach for timetabling and vehicle scheduling problems to analyze the trade-off between level of service and operating costs of transit networks (2014)

Title

An integrated approach for timetabling and vehicle scheduling problems to analyze the trade-off between level of service and operating costs of transit networks

Publication Type

Journal Article

Year of Publication

2014

Authors

Omar J. Ibarra-Rojas, Ricardo Giesen, Yasmin A. Rios-Solis

Journal Title

Transportation Research Part B

Keywords

Timetabling, Vehicle scheduling, Integrated approach, Bi-objective optimization, e-Constraint

Abstract

In transit systems there is a critical trade-off between the level of service and operating costs. At the planning level, for a given network design, this trade-off is captured by the timetabling (TT) and vehicle scheduling (VS) problems. In the TT problem we try to maximize the number of passengers benefited by well timed transfers, while in the VS problem we seek to minimize the operating costs, which are related to the fleet size. This paper presents two integer linear programming models for the TT and VS problems, and combines them in a bi-objective integrated model. We propose and implement an -constraint method to jointly solve this TT and VS bi-objective problem. This allows to analyze the trade-off between these two criteria in terms of Pareto fronts. Numerical experiments show that our proposed approach can solve scenarios with up to 50 bus lines.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2014.08.010

Corresponding Author

Omar J. Ibarra-Rojas, Email: oibarrar@uc.cl

Line (s) of Research

Access and Mobility