Robust bus bridging service design under rail transit system disruptions

Authors

Jinpeng Liang
Jianjun Wu
Yunchao Qu
Haodong Yin
Xiaobo Qu
Ziyou Gao

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2019

Subject Area

mode - bus, mode - rail, operations - performance

Keywords

Rail transit system disruption, Bus bridging service design, Robust optimization, Column generation

Abstract

This paper focuses on designing robust bus bridging service in response to the rail transit system disruptions. We firstly develop a path-based multi-commodity flow formulation to bus bridging service design. Then its robust counterpart is formulated to incorporate bus travel time uncertainty. The column generation procedure is devised to solve this problem efficiently. At last, we carry out case studies to demonstrate its applicability and promising effects. The results reveal that our approach can significantly reduce the total cost and number of stranded passengers in disruption events. Besides, the rise of bus travel time variation will deteriorate the performance of bus bridging service.

Rights

Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

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Recommended Citation

Liang, J., Wu, J., Qu, Y., Yin, H., Qu, X., & Gao, Z. (2019). Robust bus bridging service design under rail transit system disruptions. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 132, pp. 97-116.