Abstract
Rapid transit construction projects are major endeavours that require long-term planning by several players, including politicians, urban planners, engineers, management consultants, and citizen groups. Traditionally, operations research methods have not played a major role at the planning level but several tools developed in recent years can assist the decision process and help produce tentative network designs that can be submitted to the planners for further evaluation. This article reviews some indices for the quality of a rapid transit network, as well as mathematical models and heuristics that can be used to design networks.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 95-104 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Socio-Economic Planning Sciences |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2011 |
Funding
This research was partly funded by the Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council under grant no. 39682-10 , the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under grant no. MTM 2009-14243 and the Junta de Andalucía, Spain , under grant no. P09-TEP-5022 . This support is gratefully acknowledged. Fig. 10 was kindly provided by Giuseppe Bruno. Thanks are due to a referee who provided several valuable comments on an earlier version of this paper.
Keywords
- Heuristics
- Mathematical programming
- Planning
- Rapid transit network design
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Economics and Econometrics
- Strategy and Management
- Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
- Management Science and Operations Research