Modeling horizontal and vertical equity in the public transport design problem: A case study

In the transportation literature, equity has been and is still used with a variety of meanings and purposes. Traditionally, equity has been considered in strategic transport planning but very few works have been addressing it in a quantitative way, detailing how to explicitly consider it at a transportation design level (tactical and/or operational) focusing on the consequent social role of transportation.This paper deals with how to quantitatively incorporate spatial and social equity principles in the Transit Network Design Problem. With respect to the authors' previous preliminary study, this paper goes a step further in the definition of the solution to the problem, proposing a starting candidate route set generation procedure as a preliminary step to solve before the main optimization. The objective function considers at the same time the cost of users, operators and unsatisfied demand, and a comprehensive horizontal and vertical equity indicator is also specified among the constraints of the problem. An extensive sensitivity analysis investigates how the costs of the system vary with respect to the achieved level of equity. Then, an application to a real case of study is presented to validate the proposed methodology and highlight its usefulness and performances.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.04.006
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856417307267
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  • © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Camporeale, Rosalia
  • Caggiani, Leonardo
  • 0000-0001-7390-5191
  • Ottomanelli, Michele
• Publication Date: 2019-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 184-206
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 125
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Case studies; Costs; Equity; Networks; Public transit; Sensitivity analysis; Strategic planning
• Uncontrolled Terms: Network design; Transit network design
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01710610
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 10 2019 3:17PM