TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pan,Shuliang
AU  - Yu,Jie
AU  - Yang,Xianfeng
AU  - Liu,Yue
TI  - Designing a flexible feeder transit system serving irregularly shaped and gated communities: determining service area and feeder route planning
SN  - 07339488
AV  - HT169 JOU 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Reston
PB  - ASCE
KW  - Flexible feeder transit service
KW  - Irregularly shaped and gated communities
KW  - Public transit
N2  - This paper presents a mathematical model to design the appropriate service area and routing plans for a flexible feeder transit system serving irregularly shaped and gated communities. Given the fleet size and travel times between demand collection nodes, a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model is developed to optimize the service area and transit route planning concurrently. The proposed model features a two-level structure with an upper level to maximize the number of served passengers by the feeder transit system and a lower level to minimize the operational cost for transit operators. This paper further presents a heuristic approach to yield acceptable solutions to the model in a reasonable amount of time. Case study results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed model as well as the heuristic solution approach
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000224
ER  -