The design of a flexible bus line plan

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Highlights：

• A Flexible Line Plan for bus services concept is presented.

• Line plans adapted to unusual situations are created without affecting the usual line plan as much as possible.

• Three techniques to select the lines to be modified and to design the new routes are presented.

• The concept is tested on a benchmark and on a real network.

摘要

•A Flexible Line Plan for bus services concept is presented.•Line plans adapted to unusual situations are created without affecting the usual line plan as much as possible.•Three techniques to select the lines to be modified and to design the new routes are presented.•The concept is tested on a benchmark and on a real network.

论文关键词：Flexible line plan,Line planning problem,Alternative lines,Genetic algorithms

论文评审过程：Received 28 June 2021, Revised 17 November 2021, Accepted 25 April 2022, Available online 4 May 2022, Version of Record 16 May 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117352