Integrated optimization in public transport planning (Q2191130)

This book is essentially based on the author's PhD Thesis. It tries to contribute at optimizing public transport systems, in the light of the main aspects involved are line planning, time tabling and vehicle scheduling. The book is structured in 7 main chapters, a final part with discussions and conclusions, and the bibliography. Chapter 1, the Introduction, replies the basic concepts used in this book, the main single stage problems as well as the data sets for the computational experience. Chapter 2 presents an integrated for time tabling and passenger routing, and a model for distributing the start times of passenger routes. Chapter 3 extends this models to the integrated line planning, timetabling and passenger routing problem. Chapter 4 deals with the integration of periodic timetabling and aperiodic vehicle scheduling. In Chapter 5, the integrating line planning is defined, timetabling, passenger routing, and vehicle scheduling problems as well as the role of different matrix decompositions on the computational performance. Chapter 6 considers two heuristics approaches: the look-ahead heuristic together with an iterative re-optimization scheme for a given line plan. In Chapter 7, the multi-stage problemsare presented for which the concept of integrating planning stages in public transport is generalized. The last part of the book consists of discussions of the results and an outlook to future work. The book is intended to be used by different level of students (graduate, master) as well as researches in the topic .