Transfer-based customized modular bus system design with passenger-route assignment optimization

M Gong, Y Hu, Z Chen, X Li - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Customized bus (CB) is an increasingly popular mode of transportation in many cities
around the world. However, studies on CB network design have mostly overlooked three …

Dynamic vehicle routing problem for flexible buses considering stochastic requests

W Ma, L Zeng, K An - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
Flexible buses provide on-demand services to one or more local communities in a specific
geographical area. Bus routes can be adjusted dynamically according to real-time …

Scheduling zonal-based flexible bus service under dynamic stochastic demand and Time-dependent travel time

E Lee, X Cen, HK Lo - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper schedules the zonal-based flexible bus service (ZBFBS) considering elastic
stochastic demand, stochastic location, time-dependent travel time, and passenger time …

Economies and diseconomies of scale in on-demand ridepooling systems

A Fielbaum, A Tirachini, J Alonso-Mora - Economics of Transportation, 2023 - Elsevier
We analyse the sources of economies and diseconomies of scale in On-Demand
Ridepooling (ODRP), disentangling three effects: when demand grows, average costs are …

A novel demand-responsive customized bus based on improved ant colony optimization and clustering algorithms

W Shu, Y Li - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The customized bus operating mode based on passenger demand is an effective way to
solve the problem of bus services in low travel density areas such as urban fringe areas …

Improving the performance of airport shuttle through demand-responsive service with dynamic fare strategy considering mixed demand

J Ma, X Chen, Z Xing, Y Zhang, L Yu - Journal of Air Transport …, 2023 - Elsevier
Given the booming aviation industry, airport landside transportation systems have been
facing severe challenges. With the development of communication technologies, the …

Dynamic operations of an integrated mobility service system of fixed-route transits and flexible electric buses

X Tang, J Yang, X Lin, F He, J Si - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics …, 2023 - Elsevier
As an emerging mobility service with a wide range of benefits, flexible buses balance
monetary costs, travel time, and comfort, and have evolved into a powerful supplement to …

Trends in passenger transport optimisation

C Filippi, G Guastaroba, L Peirano… - International …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The growing number and complexity of modern megalopolises, where several millions of
inhabitants request efficient transport services, pose colossal challenges to urban mobility …

Vehicle dispatching and routing of on-demand intercity ride-pooling services: A multi-agent hierarchical reinforcement learning approach

J Si, F He, X Lin, X Tang - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The integrated development of city clusters has given rise to an increasing demand for
intercity travel. Intercity ride-pooling service exhibits considerable potential in upgrading …

Frequency-based zonal flexible bus design considering order cancellation

M Li, E Lee, HK Lo - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2023 - Elsevier
Order cancellation is ubiquitous in on-demand mobility pre-booking systems, which affects
the pricing and operational strategies of on-demand mobility services. This paper …