Analysis of Feeder Bus Network Design and Scheduling Problems

Table 3

Classification of the literature based on problem perspective.

References	Objective	Decision variable	Constraint	Demand pattern	Urban or suburban	Application area and scope
Wirasinghe [35]	Coordinate transit system (rail and bus)	Z	RH	Many-to-one	Urban
Wirasinghe et al. [23]	Coordinate transit system (rail and bus)	Z, RS, RH		Many-to-one	Urban	Example, morning
Wirasinghe [36]	Coordinate operations	BRD, RSD, BF		Many-to-one	Urban	Calgary, peak
Hurdle and Wirasinghe [37]	Optimize rail station spacing	RS		Many-to-one	Urban	Calgary, peak
Kuah and Perl [17]	Optimal design for feeder bus	BS, BRL, BH		Many-to-one
Kuah and Perl [6]	Optimal design for feeder bus	BRL, BF	BL, N, RF	Many-to-one; Many-to-many	Suburban	Example benchmark, morning
Martins and Pato [1]	Optimal design for feeder bus	BRL, BF	BL, N, F, RF	Many-to-one	Suburban	Example benchmark, morning
Chien and Schonfeld [15]	Optimal design of integrated rail and bus	RL, BH, BS, RS, BRL		Many-to-many		Example
Chien and Yang [16]	Optimize feeder route location and headway	BRL, BH	G, BU, RC	Many-to-one	Suburban	Example
Shrivastav and Dhingra [7]	Development of routing and coordinated schedules	T	D, RL	Many-to-one	Suburban	Mumbai
Chien et al. [9]	Total welfare (operator and user cost)	BRL, BH	G, BU, RC	Many-to-one	Suburban	Example
Chowdhury and Chien [32]	Coordinated design of an intermodal transit system	BH, RH, BT	C, BH, RH	Many-to-one	Urban	Numerical example
Kuan [18]	Optimal design for feeder bus	BRL, BF	RL, N, RF	Many-to-one	Suburban	Example benchmark, morning
Kuan et al. [10]	Optimal design for feeder bus	BRL, BF	BL, N, RF	Many-to-one	Suburban	Example benchmark, morning
Chien [40]	Total welfare (operator and user cost)	BH, N, BRL	C, N, BU		Urban	Sandy Hook, park
Kuan et al. [11]	Optimal design for feeder bus	BRL, BF	BL, N, RF	Many-to-one	Suburban	Example benchmark, morning
Shrivastava and O’mahony [41]	Development of routing and coordinated schedules	BRL, BF	N, D, LF	Many-to-one	Suburban	Dublin
Shrivastava and O’mahony [43]	Development of routing and coordinated schedules	BRL, BF	N, D, LF	Many-to-one	Suburban	Dublin
Shrivastava and O’mahony [29]	Development of routing and coordinated schedules	BRL, BF	N, D, LF	Many-to-one	Suburban	Dublin, morning
Shrivastava and O’mahony [44]	Development of routing and coordinated schedules	BRL, BF	N, D, LF	Many-to-one	Suburban	Dublin, morning
Mohaymany and Gholami [31]	Optimize multimode feeder	BRL, BF, M	BL, N, F, BH, RS	Many-to-one	Suburban	Example benchmark, morning
Gholami and Mohaymany [47]	Optimize multimode feeder	BRL, BF, M	BL, N, F, BH, RS	Many-to-one	Urban	North of Tehran
Sivakumaran et al. [26]	Coordination of vehicle schedules in a transit system	BH, RH, BL		Many-to-one	Urban	An idealized network
Hu et al. [48]	Model for layout region of feeder	T	TD		Urban	Guangzhou
Ciaffi et al. [49]	Develop routing and scheduling simultaneously	BRL, BF	BL		Urban	Winnipeg and Rome, morning
Cipriani et al. [50]	Develop an operative tool in the bus system	BRL, BF	C, BL, F	Many-to-many	Urban	City of Rome
Xiong et al. [19]	Optimal routing problem	BRL, BH	D, BU	Many-to-one	Urban	Example