Public transport network optimisation in PTV Visum using selection hyper-heuristics

Heyken Soares, Philipp, Ahmed, Leena, Mao, Yong and Mumford, Christine L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4514-0272 2021. Public transport network optimisation in PTV Visum using selection hyper-heuristics. Public Transport , pp. 163-196. 10.1007/s12469-020-00249-7

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Abstract

Despite the progress in the field of automatic public transport route optimisation in recent years, there exists a clear gap between the development of optimisation algorithms and their applications in real-world planning processes. In this study, we bridge this gap by developing an interface between the urban transit routing problem (UTRP) and the professional transport modelling software PTV Visum. The interface manages the differences in data requirements between the two worlds of research and allows the optimisation of public transport lines in Visum network models. This is demonstrated with the application of selection hyper-heuristics on two network models representing real-world urban areas. The optimisation objectives include the passengers’ average travel time and operators’ costs. Furthermore, we show how our approach can be combined with a mode choice model to optimise the use of public transport in relation to other modes. This feature is applied in a special optimisation experiment to reduce the number of private vehicles on a selected set of links in the network. The results demonstrate the successful implementation of our interface and the applied optimisation methods for a multi-modal public transport network.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Additional Information:	This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher:	Springer Verlag (Germany)
ISSN:	1866-749X
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	24 November 2020
Date of Acceptance:	18 August 2020
Last Modified:	19 May 2023 21:11
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/136596

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