Genetic algorithms for urban transit routing problems

The problem of road congestion occurs in most of the urban cities in the world. An e±cient public transportation system is vitae in helping to reduce the overall tra±c on the road. The urban transit routing problem (UTRP) is involved in searching for a set of routes for the urban public transportati...

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Main Author: Chew, Joanne Suk Chun
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Published: 2012
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spelling my.upm.eprints.327552015-01-13T01:34:43Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32755/ Genetic algorithms for urban transit routing problems Chew, Joanne Suk Chun The problem of road congestion occurs in most of the urban cities in the world. An e±cient public transportation system is vitae in helping to reduce the overall tra±c on the road. The urban transit routing problem (UTRP) is involved in searching for a set of routes for the urban public transportation system, which proved to be a highly complex multi-constrained problem. UTRP is a NP-hard problem where a lot of criteria need to be met in order to generate a feasible solution. Metaheuristic algorithm is suitable for the di±culties of this problem. Thus in this study, one such metaheuristic algorithm, genetic algorithm (GA) is developed to solve the UTRP. The objective of this study is to design a GA to solve the UTRP. Due to the complexity of the UTRP, there is always a possibility of getting an infeasible chro- mosome. Thus, each chromosome is tested by a set of feasible criteria and modi¯-cation is made for the infeasible chromosomes. The genetic operations of crossover and mutation are also introduced to help the GA in exploring new characteristics for the chromosome and to maintain the diversity of the population as the GA evolves in each generation. The proposed algorithm is ¯rst applied to the single objective of UTRP which involves only the passengers' cost. It is later expanded to the bi-objective of UTRP which looks into the operator's cost as well. Due to the contradicting objective functions of the bi-objective UTRP, a trade-o® between the two objective functions is needed. Our proposed GA will search the Pareto Frontier and Pareto-optimal solutions are returned as the non-dominated solu- tions. The results obtained from the single and bi-objective of UTRP show that our proposed GA signi¯cantly improves the results compared to other published results in the literature for the Mandl's Swiss road network benchmark problem. 2012-04 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32755/1/FS%202012%2058R.pdf Chew, Joanne Suk Chun (2012) Genetic algorithms for urban transit routing problems. Masters thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
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description The problem of road congestion occurs in most of the urban cities in the world. An e±cient public transportation system is vitae in helping to reduce the overall tra±c on the road. The urban transit routing problem (UTRP) is involved in searching for a set of routes for the urban public transportation system, which proved to be a highly complex multi-constrained problem. UTRP is a NP-hard problem where a lot of criteria need to be met in order to generate a feasible solution. Metaheuristic algorithm is suitable for the di±culties of this problem. Thus in this study, one such metaheuristic algorithm, genetic algorithm (GA) is developed to solve the UTRP. The objective of this study is to design a GA to solve the UTRP. Due to the complexity of the UTRP, there is always a possibility of getting an infeasible chro- mosome. Thus, each chromosome is tested by a set of feasible criteria and modi¯-cation is made for the infeasible chromosomes. The genetic operations of crossover and mutation are also introduced to help the GA in exploring new characteristics for the chromosome and to maintain the diversity of the population as the GA evolves in each generation. The proposed algorithm is ¯rst applied to the single objective of UTRP which involves only the passengers' cost. It is later expanded to the bi-objective of UTRP which looks into the operator's cost as well. Due to the contradicting objective functions of the bi-objective UTRP, a trade-o® between the two objective functions is needed. Our proposed GA will search the Pareto Frontier and Pareto-optimal solutions are returned as the non-dominated solu- tions. The results obtained from the single and bi-objective of UTRP show that our proposed GA signi¯cantly improves the results compared to other published results in the literature for the Mandl's Swiss road network benchmark problem.
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author Chew, Joanne Suk Chun
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Genetic algorithms for urban transit routing problems
author_facet Chew, Joanne Suk Chun
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title Genetic algorithms for urban transit routing problems
title_short Genetic algorithms for urban transit routing problems
title_full Genetic algorithms for urban transit routing problems
title_fullStr Genetic algorithms for urban transit routing problems
title_full_unstemmed Genetic algorithms for urban transit routing problems
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publishDate 2012
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/32755/1/FS%202012%2058R.pdf
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