Designing robust rapid transit networks with alternative routes |
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| Authors: | Gilbert Laporte Angel Marín Juan A Mesa Federico Perea |
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| Institution: | 1. Canada Research Chair in Distribution Management, HEC Montréal, Canada;2. Departamento de Matemática Aplicada y Estadística, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain;3. Departamento de Matemática Aplicada II, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain;4. Departamento de Métodos Estadísticos, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain |
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| Abstract: | The aim of this paper is to propose a model for the design of a robust rapid transit network. In this paper, a network is said to be robust when the effect of disruption on total trip coverage is minimized. The proposed model is constrained by three different kinds of flow conditions. These constraints will yield a network that provides several alternative routes for given origin–destination pairs, therefore increasing robustness. The paper includes computational experiments which show how the introduction of robustness influences network design. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | rapid transit systems network design robustness |
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