CB-Planner: A bus line planning framework for customized bus systems

Y Lyu, CY Chow, VCS Lee, JKY Ng, Y Li… - … Research Part C …, 2019 - Elsevier
A customized bus (CB) system is an emerging public transportation that aims to provide
direct and efficient transit services for groups of commuters with similar travel demands …

Time-dependent urban customized bus routing with path flexibility

R Guo, W Zhang, W Guan, B Ran - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Urban customized bus companies are increasingly motivated by design efforts that entail
more efficient route scenarios to incorporate adaptation to temporal and spatial …

Large‐scale demand driven design of a customized bus network: A methodological framework and Beijing case study

J Ma, Y Yang, W Guan, F Wang, T Liu… - Journal of Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, an innovative public transportation (PT) mode known as the customized bus
(CB) has been proposed and implemented in many cities in China to efficiently and …

Integrated optimization for commuting customized bus stop planning, routing design, and timetable development with passenger spatial-temporal accessibility

X Chen, Y Wang, X Ma - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The customized bus (CB) is an innovative type of transit service that can provide a
personalized efficient transit services for passengers and environmental friendliness and …

Customized bus route design with pickup and delivery and time windows: Model, case study and comparative analysis

X Chen, Y Wang, Y Wang, X Qu, X Ma - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
The customized bus (CB) is an emerging type of public transportation system, which not only
provides a flexible and reliable demand-responsive service, but also reduces the usage of …

Customized bus service design for jointly optimizing passenger-to-vehicle assignment and vehicle routing

LC Tong, L Zhou, J Liu, X Zhou - Transportation Research Part C …, 2017 - Elsevier
Emerging transportation network services, such as customized buses, hold the promise of
expanding overall traveler accessibility in congested metropolitan areas. A number of …

A data-driven and optimal bus scheduling model with time-dependent traffic and demand

Y Wang, D Zhang, L Hu, Y Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Urban bus companies have collected a tremendous amount of travel data from passengers
in the past years. In spite of great value for bus schedule optimization, these data have not …

Customized bus routing problem with time window restrictions: model and case study

R Guo, W Guan, W Zhang, F Meng… - … A: Transport Science, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Considering that, in reality, passengers usually hold preferred time windows when waiting
for a bus at a station, this study develops a mixed integer programming model for the …

Route design problem of customized buses: Mixed integer programming model and case study

R Guo, W Guan, W Zhang - Journal of Transportation Engineering …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
In recent years, the customized bus (CB) has been introduced and popularized in China to
improve the attraction and service level of public transportation. A key point of the CB …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling and optimization of dedicated bus lanes space allocation in large networks with dynamic congestion

D Tsitsokas, A Kouvelas, N Geroliminis - Transportation Research Part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
Dedicated bus lanes provide a low cost and easily implementable strategy to improve transit
service by minimizing congestion-related delays. Identifying the best spatial distribution of …