GOAL-PROGRAMMING APPROACH TO ASSESSING URBAN TRANSIT SYSTEM

Transportation systems often are evaluated to see whether they satisfy a variety of community goals. Of primary concern in this study in the development of a procedure for using the goal-programming technique, a modification and extension of linear programming, to evaluate urban transit systems for meeting the transportation-related goals of a community. These goals are intended to be general enough to permit adaptation of the goal-programming technique for the solution of a wide variety of urban problems. First, constraints are formulated from the inputs from a community; then the output variables are chosen to correlate with basic characteristics of urban transit systems to select a system or group of systems to fulfill the community transportation requirements. A computer program is employed to ease application of the goal programming and allow flexibility for a complex set of equations. A set of sample community goals are assumed to illustrate how the technique is practical in actual applications. /Author/

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• Authors:
  • Yu, Jason C
  • Hawthorne, Richard C
• Conference:
  • 54th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia
  • Date: 1975-1-13 to 1975-1-17
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 35-47
• Monograph Title: Planning and programming for transportation
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Record
  • Issue Number: 574
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0361-1981

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer programming; Computer programs; Equations; Evaluation; Linear programming; Public transit; Social values; Strategic planning; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Programming
• Old TRIS Terms: Community values
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00139556
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0309024889
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Sep 16 1981 12:00AM