Alleviating public traffic congestion is an efficient and effective way to improve the travel time reliability and quality of public transport services. The existing public network optimization models usually ignored the essential impact of public traffic congestion on the performance of public transport service. To address this problem, this study proposes a data-based methodology to estimate the traffic congestion of road segments between bus stops (RSBs). The proposed methodology involves two steps: (1) Extracting three traffic indicators of the RSBs from smart card data and bus trajectory data; (2) The self-organizing map (SOM) is used to cluster and effectively recognize traffic patterns embedded in the RSBs. Furthermore, a congestion index for ranking the SOM clusters is developed to determine the congested RSBs. A case study using real-world datasets from a public transport system validates the proposed methodology. Based on the congested RSBs, an exploratory example of public transport network optimization is discussed and evaluated using a genetic algorithm. The clustering results showed that the SOM could suitably reflect the traffic characteristics and estimate traffic congestion of the RSBs. The results obtained in this study are expected to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed methodology in sustainable public transport improvements. these network optimization models developed in the above-mentioned articles had been usually applied in uncongested road segments.Public traffic condition refers to the traffic volume of the road network and its dynamic spatial-temporal distribution, which can reflect the degree of congestion [8]. Recently, the traffic congestion impacts of bus operations on a road segment or a corridor have been investigated by researchers [9,10]. These congestion effects mainly include the effects of bus stop design, bus travel time, and bus priority options such as exclusive bus lanes or priority signals for buses [9]. Understanding these congestion impacts can help operators to identify the effectiveness of transport network optimization in relieving congested areas or congested routes. For example, under congested traffic conditions, it is difficult for buses to return to the driving lane, which leads to a longer travel time after picking-up/dropping off passengers at stops [11]. Furthermore, the bus travel time variation dominated by traffic congestion often results in unreliable service, which has negative impacts on both the operators and passengers [12]. Previous studies have pointed out that well-located stops have the potential to alleviate the impact of traffic congestion [3]. Therefore, it is critical to optimize PTN by considering the impact of traffic congestion in order to achieve a high level of public transport service and improve travel time reliability.In this study, we proposed a data-based methodology to estimate the traffic congestion of road segments between bus stops (RSBs) using a self-organizing feature map (SOM). The SOM was used to cluster and effective...

Transit-oriented development (TOD) is among the most feasible strategies for relieving urban issues caused by the unbalanced development of transportation and land use. This study proposes a multiobjective TOD land use design framework for the optimization of the land use layout in station catchments. Given the high density and diverse development in Chinese megacities, a planning model that considers nonlinear impacts on ridership, land use efficiency, quality of life, and the environment is constructed. The model applies fine-grained geo-big data to fill gaps in the empirical and statistical data and improve practicability. A genetic multiobjective optimization approach without reliance on objective weighting is used to generate alternative land use schemes. A metro station in Shanghai is applied as a case study. The results indicate that the proposed ridership objective outperforms the commonly used linear function, and the optimization method has superior extreme optima and convergence to baseline models. We also discuss the consistencies and conflicts in the objectives and provide a balanced land use scheme considering local policies. This work provides suggestions for sustainable urban design with coordinated land use and transportation.

Transit-oriented development (TOD) is generally understood as an effective urban design model for encouraging the use of public transportation. Inspired by TOD, the node-place (NP) model was developed to investigate the relationship between transport stations and land use. However, existing studies construct the NP model based on the statistical attributes, while the importance of travel characteristics is ignored, which arguably cannot capture the complete picture of the stations. In this study, we aim to integrate the NP model and travel characteristics with systematic insights derived from network theory to classify stations. A node-place-network (NPN) model is developed by considering three aspects: land use, transportation, and travel network. Moreover, the carrying pressure is proposed to quantify the transport service pressure of the station. Taking Shanghai as a case study, our results show that the travel network affects the station classification and highlights the imbalance between the built environment and travel characteristics.