Exact and approximate optimisation for strategic bus network planning

Ahern, Zeke Alexander (2020) Exact and approximate optimisation for strategic bus network planning. Master of Philosophy thesis, Queensland University of Technology.

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This thesis contributes to the area of transportation network design at the strategic level, considering objectives for the passenger and operator. The main goal of the research is to improve the existing methods by developing new and more rigorous approaches to integrating route choice, service frequency and adequately accounting for passenger waiting time. An exact model was developed: providing a concise non-ambiguous description to the problem. Case study problem instances found that exact methods implemented by commercial solvers are not scalable for practical problems. Therefore, meta-heuristics were presented to find near-optimal solutions efficiently and demonstrate the practicality of the model in the real-world.

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ID Code: 206458
Item Type: QUT Thesis (Master of Philosophy)
Supervisor: Corry, Paul & McGree, James
Keywords: Transit network design, Multi-objective optimisation, Simulated annealing, Tabu search, Genetic algorithm, Mixed-integer program
DOI: 10.5204/thesis.eprints.206458
Divisions: Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Science & Engineering Faculty
Current > Schools > School of Mathematical Sciences
Institution: Queensland University of Technology
Deposited On: 30 Nov 2020 12:45
Last Modified: 23 Jan 2025 00:47