Public Transport Optimization

This textbook is a comprehensive guide for new public transport modelers, covering mathematical modeling, optimization, complexity analysis, metaheuristics, and multi-objective optimization. It helps engineers and modelers develop accurate mathematical models and solve complex problems in public transport services.

Format: Hardback
Length: 626 pages
Publication date: 21 January 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This comprehensive textbook serves as a valuable guide for aspiring new public transport modelers. It encompasses an extensive introduction to mathematical modeling, encompassing continuous and discrete optimization, numerical optimization, computational complexity analysis, metaheuristics, and multi-objective optimization. These powerful tools empower engineers and modelers to enhance the effectiveness of existing public transport models and create innovative solutions to address future challenges. By delving into this book, readers will acquire the skills to translate future problem descriptions into mathematical models and employ appropriate solution methods to solve them.

Moreover, the textbook equips readers with the knowledge required to develop highly accurate mathematical models that serve as decision-support tools at the strategic, tactical, and operational planning levels of public transport services. Its detailed explanation of exact optimization methods, metaheuristics, bi-level, and multi-objective optimization approaches, coupled with the comprehensive description of implementing these approaches in classic public transport problems using open-source tools, sets this textbook apart. It is an invaluable resource for students and transport professionals alike.

Weight: 1130g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031124433
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022