Public transit planning and scheduling based on AVL data in China

• Published in: International transactions in operational research Vol. 23; no. 6; pp. 1089 - 1111
• Main Authors: Shen, Yindong, Xu, Jia, Zeng, Zhongyi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2016
• Subjects: AVL data; Design engineering; Headways; Operational research; Operations research; Planning; public transit planning; public transport; Public transportation; Schedules; Scheduling; Studies; timetabling; Transportation networks; Transportation planning; vehicle scheduling; Vehicles; China

The public transit operations planning process commonly includes the following activities: network route design, service planning (frequency setting and timetabling), and scheduling (vehicle scheduling, crew scheduling, and rostering). However, the network route design is generally the only one wide...