An Optimization Procedure to Design a Minibus Feeder Service: An Application to the Sintra Rail Line

Martínez, Luis; Eiró, Tomás

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.770

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“…An effective solution can be achieved by 1) vertical urban development (Wahyudi, 2018), and 2) feeder reformation based on the demand-responsive connection (DRC) approach (Costa et al, 2021;Martínez and Eiró, 2012). An overview of DRC research is shown in Table 1.…”

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Feeder Bus Reformation for an Urban Rail Project: The Case of Khon Kaen City, Thailand

Prapaporn

2022

jrcp

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The ability to use public transportation should be available throughout the whole service area and the public transportation network should be well connected. This research compared the potential coverage of a feeder bus network in support of urban rail transportation, as well as the impact of future transit network plans on public transportation accessibility in the city of Khoan Kaen, Thailand. The performance of the public transportation system was predicted based on multimodal transport and the completed urban rail public transportation plan, as projected in the year 2036, in order to fill gaps in the existing feeder bus network. The feasibility and characteristics of the route reformation policy concept should provide an effective feeder network for the urban rail system. A comparative study was conducted on stakeholder impact for a three-fold scenario: 1) separate individual lines for bus routes; 2) both forms of feeder bus networks (conventional and reformed); and 3) access to three designated utility areas from the entire feeder bus network. In this scenario, the most effective urban mobility support was provided by public facilities combined with a major roadway directly connecting to the designated positions. The time used on the extended bus route network increased by around 11% on average for the entire trip, while accessibility increased by approximately 67.75%, 47.9%, and 43.68% for the entire multimodal transport network. These analytical results make a significant contribution to future knowledge on urban transformation through urban mass transit projects. The contribution of land acquisition was significant. Also, the demand-responsive connection approach used in this study can be adopted to determine feeder bus reformation options, particularly in emerging economies.

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Feeder Bus Reformation for an Urban Rail Project: The Case of Khon Kaen City, Thailand

Prapaporn

2022

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“…Using the GeoMedia software you can determine the length of an entity drawn in a class that can be done automatically due to the georeferencing of the image according to the previously chosen coordinate points. [10] Thus, the distance of a route was automatically calculated (measured) by accessing the "update attributes" function from the "Edit" menu, introducing a length operator inside the corresponding attribute. The automatic measurement of the desired route length on the map resulted.…”

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Study regarding the improvement of the postage transport system in the city of Sibiu

Popescu

Moldovan²

2021

MATEC Web Conf.

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This paper presents a study on the improvement of postal system in the city of Sibiu where there are a number of three post offices that serve a number of eight counters, to which are added the distribution point and the collection point. Each post office has a well-established work schedule that differs from one office to another. The transport of postal items between the counters / post offices within the municipality of Sibiu and the collection office, must be done on a certain route, in order to respect the work schedule of each office and to take into account a number of restriction factors. In order to streamline the process of collecting and distributing postal items in Sibiu, 6 routes have been proposed and studied for the two shifts of drivers. With the help of the GeoMedia software, various route variants were calculated in terms of distance in kilometers, fuel consummation and time traveled. With the help of a spreadsheet calculation performed in Microsoft Office Excel, it was possible to check and recalculate the proposed routes, by entering the times that drivers spend loading and unloading postal items from each counter. It was thus possible to create a calculation sheet that can improve postal transport in Sibiu, and can increase the quality of services.

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“…In other words, transit route was predetermined without optimization. Hence, enhanced methods were proposed which optimize transit route together with aforementioned factors [16][17][18][19]. Although the methods have been enhanced, there are still problems: (1) the access cost from real origin (e.g., home or school) to its corresponding feeder bus stop was ignored when assuming that demands are centered on feeder bus stops (nodes) [17,18,[20][21][22][23][24]; (2) locations of feeder bus stops are fixed [25,26]; (3) feeder buses must reach all predetermined stops without considering real-time demand information [11,18,27].…”

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An Agent-Based Model for Dispatching Real-Time Demand-Responsive Feeder Bus

Wei

et al. 2018

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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This research proposed a feeder bus dispatching tool that reduces rides' effort to reach a feeder bus. The dispatching tool takes in real-time user specific request information and optimizes total cost accordingly (passenger access time cost and transit operation cost) by choosing the best pick-up locations and feeder buses' routes. The pick-up locations are then transmitted back to passengers along with GPS guidance. The tool fits well with the Advanced Traveler Information Services (ATIS) which is one of the six highpriority dynamic mobility application bundles currently being promoted by the United State Department of Transportation. The problem is formulated into a Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) model. For small networks, out-of-the-shelf commercial solvers could be used for finding the optimal solution. For large networks, this research developed a GA-based metaheuristic solver which generates reasonably good solutions in a much shorter time. The proposed tool is evaluated on a real-world network in the vicinity of Jiandingpo metro station in Chongqing, China. The results demonstrated that the proposed ATIS tool reduces both buses operation cost and passenger walking distance. It is also able to significantly bring down computation time from more than 1 hour to about 1 min without sacrificing too much on solution optimality.

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An Optimization Procedure to Design a Minibus Feeder Service: An Application to the Sintra Rail Line

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Feeder Bus Reformation for an Urban Rail Project: The Case of Khon Kaen City, Thailand

Feeder Bus Reformation for an Urban Rail Project: The Case of Khon Kaen City, Thailand

Study regarding the improvement of the postage transport system in the city of Sibiu

An Agent-Based Model for Dispatching Real-Time Demand-Responsive Feeder Bus

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