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Owais, M., Moussa, G., Abbas, Y., El-Shabrawy, M. (2013). OPTIMAL FREQUENCY SETTING FOR CIRCULAR BUS ROUTES IN URBAN AREAS. JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences, 41(No 5), 1796-1811. doi: 10.21608/jesaun.2013.114910
M. M. Owais; Ghada Moussa; Yousef Abbas; Mohamed El-Shabrawy. "OPTIMAL FREQUENCY SETTING FOR CIRCULAR BUS ROUTES IN URBAN AREAS". JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences, 41, No 5, 2013, 1796-1811. doi: 10.21608/jesaun.2013.114910
Owais, M., Moussa, G., Abbas, Y., El-Shabrawy, M. (2013). 'OPTIMAL FREQUENCY SETTING FOR CIRCULAR BUS ROUTES IN URBAN AREAS', JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences, 41(No 5), pp. 1796-1811. doi: 10.21608/jesaun.2013.114910
Owais, M., Moussa, G., Abbas, Y., El-Shabrawy, M. OPTIMAL FREQUENCY SETTING FOR CIRCULAR BUS ROUTES IN URBAN AREAS. JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences, 2013; 41(No 5): 1796-1811. doi: 10.21608/jesaun.2013.114910

OPTIMAL FREQUENCY SETTING FOR CIRCULAR BUS ROUTES IN URBAN AREAS

Article 5, Volume 41, No 5, September and October 2013, Page 1796-1811  XML PDF (316.23 K)
Document Type: Research Paper
DOI: 10.21608/jesaun.2013.114910
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Authors
M. M. Owais email 1; Ghada Moussaorcid 2; Yousef Abbas2; Mohamed El-Shabrawy3
1Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
2Civil Engineering Department, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt
3Civil Engineering Department, El–Mansura University, El-Mansura, Egypt
Abstract
This paper is concerned with using a frequency – based passengers’ route choice models for circular closed bus routes. Transit passengers, in many cases, deal with overlapping bus routes with some routes sharing common sections and stops. Passenger assignment problem is a major task in frequency setting of bus service which aims to minimize passengers and operator costs. In this work, mixed integer mathematical formulation based on passenger choice problem is developed to track each proportion of passengers’ in selecting bus routes for -0- and -1- trips transfer. The proposed model would help for a given transit network and total bus fleet size to minimize network total travel time. It would optimally distribute frequency among bus routes, regarding passengers’ interests in selecting bus routes. It differs from traditional models, since it helps in tracking different users while they are moving on the network. Numerical examples are given to clarify the proposed mathematical formulation. Circular bus routes operational performance is tested using Mandl’s network benchmark problem. Genetic Algorithm has been implemented with Matlab language in solution procedure. Comparing results with previous work indicates that circular bus routes manage in minimizing average user travel time for the same operator cost. The results from this study would help in further work to optimize transit vehicle size and stops distances along each single bus route.
Keywords
Circular bus routes; Frequency setting - Mixed Integer Programming; Genetic Algorithm
Main Subjects
Civil Engineering: structural, Geotechnical, reinforced concrete and steel structures, Surveying, Road and traffic engineering, water resources, Irrigation structures, Environmental and sanitary engineering, Hydraulic, Railway, construction Management.
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