Optimization in Public Transportation Stop Location, Delay Management and Tariff Zone Design in a Public Transportation Network /

• Main Author: Schöbel, Anita (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Springer Optimization and Its Applications, 3
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Computer programming.; Algorithms.; Mathematical optimization.; Management science.; Optimization.; Operations Research, Management Science.; Programming Techniques.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity.

Customer-Oriented Optimization in Public Transportation develops models, results and algorithms for optimizing public transportation from a customer-oriented point of view. The methods used are based on graph-theoretic approaches and integer programming. The specific topics are all motivated by real...

Table of Contents:

• Customer-oriented Traffic Planning
• Customer-oriented Traffic Planning
• Stop Location
• Covering All Demand Points
• Bicriteria Stop Location
• Extensions
• Delay Management
• Delay Management With Fixed Connections
• Minimizing the Sum of All Delays
• The Bicriteria Delay Management Problem
• Extensions
• Tariff Planning
• Finding Zones and Zone Prices.