Network design for integrated vehicle-sharing and public transportation service
Thesis: S.M. in Transportation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2015.
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| author | Zhou, Tianli, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| author2 | Cynthia Barnhart and Carolina Osorio. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/995702020-07-16T18:09:31Z Network design for integrated vehicle-sharing and public transportation service Zhou, Tianli, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cynthia Barnhart and Carolina Osorio. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering. Thesis: S.M. in Transportation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2015. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-83). Vehicle sharing services have become a major urban transportation mode. One-way vehicle sharing service facilitates access to public transportation systems, thereby addressing the first and last mile challenges and creating an integrated vehicle-sharing and public transportation network providing origin-to-destination service. In this thesis we provide models and methods for design one-way vehicle-sharing networks. The location of one-way vehicle sharing stations strongly influence the level of travel time savings achieved by the users of the system. Our goal, then, is to select station locations so as to maximize the connectivity with the public transportation system, increase the accessibility to the urban area, reduce travel times, reduce congestion, and reduce emissions. We select a certain number of stations to install from a set of candidates whose locations are predetermined. In Chapter 2, we review existing literature in which the objective is to minimize total user travel cost. In Chapter 3, we propose a new model with the objective to design a network such that more users experience travel time savings that are sufficiently large to elicit mode shifts to the integrated public transportation option. We develop a decomposition procedure to solve our model and propose cut generation methods to expedite the solution process. Computational results in Chapter 4 show that our algorithm reduces solution times, while increasing the number of travelers who can experience travel time savings of significance by using our newly designed network. In Chapter 5, we propose a heuristic method to generate a network design with (near-) minimal total travel cost. Our decomposition method that searches in a neighborhood around the known best design, and changes the neighborhood center when improved solution are identified or expands the neighborhood if no better solution is found. Computational results show that our algorithm finds improved solutions, compared to existing approaches, for large-scale networks with imposed limits on computation time. In Chapter 6, we conclude the thesis and provide future research guidance. by Tianli Zhou. S.M. in Transportation 2015-10-30T18:56:26Z 2015-10-30T18:56:26Z 2015 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99570 924788806 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 83 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Civil and Environmental Engineering. Zhou, Tianli, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Network design for integrated vehicle-sharing and public transportation service |
| title | Network design for integrated vehicle-sharing and public transportation service |
| title_full | Network design for integrated vehicle-sharing and public transportation service |
| title_fullStr | Network design for integrated vehicle-sharing and public transportation service |
| title_full_unstemmed | Network design for integrated vehicle-sharing and public transportation service |
| title_short | Network design for integrated vehicle-sharing and public transportation service |
| title_sort | network design for integrated vehicle sharing and public transportation service |
| topic | Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99570 |
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