EURO 2025 Leeds
Abstract Submission

1785. How to optimize an entire road network

Invited abstract in session TA-59: Road network optimization, monitoring and control, stream Transportation.

Tuesday, 8:30-10:00
Room: Liberty 1.14

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Yves Lucet
Computer Science, University of British Columbia
2. Paavai Manimaran V.
Computer Science, University of British Columbia
3. Warren Hare
University of British Columbia
4. John Thompson
Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, University of British Columbia

Abstract

We extend current road design optimization from a single road between two points to an entire network of roads such as those required to deploy a wind farm. The first step is to determine corridor locations using extended shortest path, minimum spanning tree, and Steiner tree techniques. Next, we identify each road between 2 connection points: turbine location, or access road, and we compute the horizontal alignment using a bilevel optimization approach (upper uses branch-and-bound while the lower level is a mixed-integer linear program). Finally, with the horizontal alignments fixed, we fine tune the results by recomputing all the vertical alignment for the entire network as a convex quadratically-constrained quadratic optimization problem.

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Status: accepted


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