A column-generation-based approach for solving the bus rapid transit route design problem

Bus rapid transit systems have been gaining popularity all over the world. They constitute an alternative for urban transportation systems by providing reserved lanes for buses and thus improving transportation times. Nonetheless, there are several intrinsic strategic and operational problems that n...

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Autores:
Cardona Ramírez, Ernesto
Tipo de recurso:
Trabajo de grado de pregrado
Fecha de publicación:
2022
Institución:
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Repositorio:
Repositorio Universidad Javeriana
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repository.javeriana.edu.co:10554/59049
Acceso en línea:
http://hdl.handle.net/10554/59049
Palabra clave:
Bus rapid transit route design problem
Generación de columnas
Optimización combinatoria
Programación entera
Teoría de la complejidad computacional
Análisis de convexidad
Convex analysis
Complexity theory
Integer optimization
Combinatorial optimization
Bus rapid transit route design problem
Column generation
Matemáticas - Tesis y disertaciones académicas
Optimización combinatoria
Matemáticas
Combinaciones (Matemáticas)
Heurística
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openAccess
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Summary:Bus rapid transit systems have been gaining popularity all over the world. They constitute an alternative for urban transportation systems by providing reserved lanes for buses and thus improving transportation times. Nonetheless, there are several intrinsic strategic and operational problems that need to be addressed. In this work we focus on developing mathematical and computational tools to support the problem of designing the routes to be operated on the system and their frequencies. This document is composed of two chapters. In the first chapter, we present the preliminary topics that are required to have a better understanding of the subsequent sections. This chapter is divided into four sections containing topics on convex analysis, Linear, Integer and Combinatorial Optimization, Solution Methodologies and Complexity Theory. In the second chapter, we present the main results of the capstone project in the format of a research article. In particular, we present the literature review, problem definition and a new formulation for the Bus Rapid Transit Route Design Problem. Then, we introduce a column-generation-based approach to solve large-scale instances of the LP relaxation of the formulation and show some computational experiments to test the proposed approach.