EURO 2025 Leeds
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2652. Line planning and timetabling with limited station capacities

Invited abstract in session MA-59: Time tabling in public transportation, stream Transportation.

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

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Michael Rihlmann
2. Anita Schöbel
Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau

Abstract

Offering attractive public transport systems is a crucial aspect to reach a climate-neutral world. Many papers consider how to make them attractive for passengers but research mostly neglects to make them realizable in practice. In this talk we will cover model extensions to line planning and timetabling models from the literature to encounter the problem of limited station capacities.
Many urban public transport systems have some main stations, where most of the existing lines stop regularly. The physical space at those stations can limit the number of platforms and therefore the maximal number of simultaneously arriving vehicles. Allowing two lines to stop at the main station at the same time creates a very convenient cross-platform connection for passengers, which is particularly reasonable if many passengers want to use this transfer. However, this is probably not possible to establish for all transfers at the main station if the number of platforms is limited. We will extend known line planning and timetabling models from the literature to include the aspect of stations with limited capacities.
Additionally, we will present a new model for the case of one large main station which selects groups of lines to meet there minimizing the number of passengers transferring between the groups.
Our findings are illustrated at the public transport bus system of Kaiserslautern, Germany.

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Status: accepted

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