The integrated dial-a-ride problem with timetabled fixed route service

This paper concerns operational planning of door-to-door transportation systems for the elderly and/or disabled, who often need a more flexible transportation system than the rest of the population. Highly flexible, but very costly direct transportation is often offered as a complement to standard fixed route public transport service. In the integrated dial-a-ride problem (IDARP), these modes of transport are combined and certain legs of the passengers journeys may be performed with the fixed route public transport system. We extend the IDARP and include timetables for the fixed route services, forcing the fleet of vehicles to schedule the arrival at transfer locations with care. Two mixed integer linear programming formulations of the integrated dial-a-ride problem with timetables are presented and analyzed. The key modeling challenge is that of the transfers between the fleet of vehicles and the fixed route public transport system. The formulations differ in how the transfers are modeled and the differences are thoroughly discussed. The computational study compares the formulations in terms of network size, computational time and memory usage and conclusions about their performances are drawn.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12469-016-0128-9
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  • Copyright © 2017, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. The contents of this paper reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official views or policies of the Transportation Research Board or the National Academy of Sciences.
• Authors:
  • Posada, Marcus
  • 0000-0001-9008-6407
  • Andersson, Henrik
  • Hall, Carl H
• Publication Date: 2017-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 217-241
• Serial:
  • Public Transport
  • Volume: 9
  • Issue Number: 1-2
  • Publisher: Springer Publishing
  • ISSN: 1866-749X
  • EISSN: 1613-7159
  • Serial URL: http://link.springer.com/journal/12469

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Mixed integer programming; Paratransit services; Routes and routing; Timetables; Transit vehicle operations
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01641121
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 17 2017 9:33AM