Toward Real-time Multi-criteria Decision Making for Bus Service Reliability Optimisation

Vu The Tran, Peter Eklund, Chris Cook

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Abstract

This paper addresses issues associated with the real-time control of public transit operations to minimize passenger wait time: namely vehicle headway, maintenance of passenger comfort, and reducing the impact of control strategies. The randomness of passenger arrivals at bus stops and external factors (such as traffic congestion and bad weather) in high frequency transit operations often cause irregular headway that can result in decreased service reliability. The approach proposed in this paper, which has the capability of handling the uncertainty of transit operations based on Multi-objective evolutionary algorithm using a dynamic Bayesian network, applies preventive strategies to forestall bus unreliability and, where unreliability is evident, restore reliability using corrective strategies. 'Holding', 'expressing', 'short-turning' and 'deadheading' are the corrective strategies considered in this paper.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFoundations of Intelligent Systems : 22nd International Symposium, ISMIS 2015, Lyon, France, October 21-23, 2015, Proceedings
Number of pages8
Volume9384
Place of PublicationHeidelberg, Germany
PublisherSpringer
Publication date2015
EditionLNCS
Pages371-378
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-25251-3
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-25252-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume9384
ISSN0302-9743

Keywords

  • Bayesian network
  • Multi-objective optimization
  • public transit
  • Transit service reliability
  • Transit modeling and simulation
  • Control strategies

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