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Umsteigen ohne Warten
(2017)
Wir stellen einen mathematischen Optimierungsansatz zur Berechnung von periodischen Taktfahrplänen vor, bei dem die Umsteigezeiten unter Berücksichtigung des Passagierverhaltens minimiert werden. Wir untersuchen damit den Einfluss wichtiger Systemparameter und Verhaltensmuster auf die Beförderungsqualität.
Umsteigen ohne Warten
(2017)
Wir stellen einen mathematischen Optimierungsansatz zur Berechnung von periodischen Taktfahrplänen vor, bei dem die Umsteigezeiten unter
Berücksichtigung des Passagierverhaltens minimiert werden. Wir untersuchen damit den Einfluss wichtiger Systemparameter und Verhaltensmuster auf die Beförderungsqualität.
The task of timetabling is to schedule the trips in a public transport system by determining periodic arrival and departure times at every station. The goal is to provide a service that is both attractive for passengers and can be operated economically. To date, timetable optimization is generally done with respect to fixed passenger routes, i.e., it is assumed that passengers do not respond to changes in the timetable. This is unrealistic and ignores potentially valuable degrees of freedom. We investigate in this paper periodic timetabling models with integrated passenger routing. We propose several models that differ in the allowed passenger paths and the objectives. We compare these models theoretically and report on computations on real-world instances for the city of Wuppertal.
The task of timetabling is to schedule the trips in a public transport system by determining periodic arrival and departure times at every station. The goal is to provide a service that is both attractive for passengers and can be operated economically. To date, timetable optimization is generally done with respect to fixed passenger routes, i.e., it is assumed that passengers do not respond to changes in the timetable. This is unrealistic and ignores potentially valuable degrees of freedom. We investigate in this paper periodic timetabling models with integrated passenger routing. We propose several models that differ in the allowed passenger paths and the objectives. We compare these models theoretically and report on computations on real-world instances for the city of Wuppertal.
Periodic timetabling is an important strategic planning problem in public transport. The task is to determine periodic arrival and departure times of the lines in a given network, minimizing the travel time of the passengers. We extend the modulo network simplex method, a well-established heuristic for the periodic timetabling problem, by integrating a passenger (re)routing step into the pivot operations. Computations on real-world networks show that we can indeed find timetables with much shorter total travel time, when we take the passengers' travel paths into consideration.
Periodic timetabling is an important strategic planning problem in public transport. The task is to determine periodic arrival and departure times of the lines in a given network, minimizing the travel time of the passengers. We extend the modulo network simplex method, a well-established heuristic for the periodic timetabling problem, by integrating a passenger (re)routing step into the pivot operations. Computations on real-world networks show that we can indeed find timetables with much shorter total travel time, when we take the passengers' travel paths into consideration.
The Cycle Embedding Problem
(2016)
Given two hypergraphs, representing a fine and a coarse "layer", and a cycle cover of the nodes of the coarse layer, the cycle embedding problem (CEP) asks for an embedding of the coarse cycles into the fine layer. The CEP is NP-hard for general hypergraphs, but it can be solved in polynomial time for graphs. We propose an integer rogramming formulation for the CEP that provides a complete escription of the CEP polytope for the graphical case. The CEP comes up in railway vehicle rotation scheduling. We present computational results for problem instances of DB Fernverkehr AG that justify a sequential coarse-first-fine-second planning approach.
The Cycle Embedding Problem
(2014)
Given two hypergraphs, representing a fine and a coarse "layer", and a cycle cover of the nodes of the coarse layer, the cycle embedding problem (CEP) asks for an embedding of the coarse cycles into the fine layer. The CEP is NP-hard for general hypergraphs, but it can be solved in polynomial time for graphs. We propose an integer rogramming formulation for the CEP that provides a complete escription of the CEP polytope for the graphical case. The CEP comes up in railway vehicle rotation scheduling. We present computational results for problem instances of DB Fernverkehr AG that justify a sequential coarse-first-fine-second planning approach.
Cycle inequalities play an important role in the polyhedral study of the periodic timetabling problem in public transport. We give the first pseudo-polynomial time separation algorithm for cycle inequalities, and we contribute a rigorous proof for the pseudo-polynomial time separability of the change-cycle inequalities. Moreover, we provide several NP-completeness results, indicating that pseudo-polynomial time is best possible. The efficiency of these cutting planes is demonstrated on real-world instances of the periodic timetabling problem.
Cycle inequalities play an important role in the polyhedral study of the periodic
timetabling problem. We give the first pseudo-polynomial time separation algo-
rithm for cycle inequalities, and we give a rigorous proof for the pseudo-polynomial
time separability of the change-cycle inequalities. Moreover, we provide several
NP-completeness results, indicating that pseudo-polynomial time is best possible.
The efficiency of these cutting planes is demonstrated on real-world instances of the
periodic timetabling problem.
Cycle inequalities play an important role in the polyhedral study of the periodic timetabling problem. We give the first pseudo-polynomial time separation algorithm for cycle inequalities, and we give a rigorous proof for the pseudo-polynomial time separability of the change-cycle inequalities. The efficiency of these cutting planes is demonstrated on real-world instances of the periodic timetabling problem.
The task of periodic timetabling is to determine trip arrival and departure times in a public transport system such that travel and transfer times are minimized. This paper investigates periodic timetabling models with integrated passenger routing. We show that different routing models can have a huge influence on the quality of the entire system: Whatever metric is applied, the performance ratios of timetables w.r.t. different routing models can be arbitrarily large. Computations on a real-world instance for the city of Wuppertal substantiate the theoretical findings. These results indicate the existence of untapped optimization potentials that can be used to improve the efficiency of public transport systems by integrating passenger routing.
The task of periodic timetabling is to schedule the trips in a public transport system by determining arrival and departure times at every station such that travel and transfer times are minimized. To date, the optimization literature generally assumes that passengers do not respond to changes in the timetable, i.e., the passenger routes are fixed. This is unrealistic and ignores potentially valuable degrees of freedom. We investigate in this paper periodic timetabling models with integrated passenger routing. We show that different routing models have a huge influence on the quality of the entire system: Whatever metric is applied, the performance ratios of timetables w.r.t. to different routing models can be arbitrarily large. Computations on a real-world instance for the city of Wuppertal substantiate the theoretical findings. These results indicate the existence of untapped optimization potentials that can be used to improve the efficiency of public transport systems.
Im Zuge der Übernahme von 6 Linien der Havelbus Verkehrsgesellschaft
mbH durch die ViP Verkehr in Potsdam GmbH ergab sich 2009 die Notwendigkeit der
Entwicklung eines neuen Linien- und Taktplans für das Jahr 2010.
Das Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB)
entwickelt in einem Projekt des DFG-Forschungszentrums Matheon ein Verfahren zur mathematischen Linienoptimierung. Dieses Tool wurde bei der Optimierung des ViP Linienplans 2010 in
einer projektbegleitenden Studie eingesetzt, um Alternativen bei
verschiedenen Planungs- und Zielvorgaben auszuloten.
In dem Artikel wird eine Auswertung der Ergebnisse mit dem Verkehrsanalysesystem Visum der PTV AG beschrieben. Die Auswertungen bestätigen, dass mit Hilfe von mathematischer Optimierung eine weitere Verkürzung der Reisezeit um 1%, eine
als um 6% verkürzt empfundene Reisezeit, 10% weniger Fahrzeit im
Fahrzeug und eine gleichzeitige Kostenreduktion um 5% möglich sind.
Wir illustrieren anhand des Liniennetzes der Stadt Potsdam das Potenzial mathematischer Methoden der Angebotsplanung. Wir zeigen, dass das "bestmögliche" Verkehrsangebot stark von planerischen Vorgaben beeinflusst wird, mit denen man die Erreichung unterschiedlicher und teilweise gegenläufiger Ziele steuern kann. Die Komplexität des Systems führt zum Auftreten von Rückkoppelungseffekten, die man nicht mit Hilfe von Daumenregeln beherrschen kann. Vielmehr ist der Einsatz moderner Planungsverfahren in einer interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit von politischen Entscheidungsträgern, Verkehrsingenieuren und Mathematikern notwendig, um die aktuellen Herausforderungen in der Verkehrsplanung zu meistern. Der Artikel dokumentiert einen Beitrag zum 7. ÖPNV Innovationskongress des Ministeriums für Verkehr und Infrastruktur des Landes Baden-Württemberg, der vom 9.-11. März 2015 in Freiburg stattfand.
Wir illustrieren anhand des Liniennetzes der Stadt Potsdam das Potenzial mathematischer Methoden der Angebotsplanung. Wir zeigen,
dass das "bestmögliche" Verkehrsangebot stark von planerischen Vorgaben beeinflusst wird, mit denen man die Erreichung unterschiedlicher und teilweise gegenläufiger Ziele steuern kann. Die Komplexität des Systems führt zum Auftreten von Rückkoppelungseffekten, die man nicht mit Hilfe von Daumenregeln beherrschen kann. Vielmehr ist der Einsatz moderner Planungsverfahren in einer interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit von politischen Entscheidungsträgern, Verkehrsingenieuren und Mathematikern notwendig, um die aktuellen Herausforderungen in der Verkehrsplanung zu meistern. Der Artikel dokumentiert einen Beitrag zum 7. ÖPNV Innovationskongress des Ministeriums für Verkehr und Infrastruktur des Landes Baden-Württemberg, der vom 9.-11. März 2015 in Freiburg stattfand.
We consider multi-commodity flow problems in which capacities are installed on paths. In this setting, it is often important to distinguish between flows on direct connection routes, using single paths, and flows that include path switching. We derive a feasibility condition for path capacities supporting such direct connection flows similar to the well-known feasibility condition for arc capacities in ordinary multi-commodity flows. The condition can be expressed in terms of a class of metric inequalities for routings on direct connections. We illustrate the concept on the example of the line planning problem in public transport and present an application to large-scale real-world problems.
We consider multi-commodity flow problems in which capacities are installed on paths. In this setting, it is often important to distinguish between flows on direct connection routes, using single paths, and flows that include path switching. We derive a feasibility condition for path capacities supporting such direct connection flows similar to the feasibility condition for arc capacities in ordinary multi-commodity flows.
The concept allows to solve large-scale real-world line planning problems in public transport including a novel passenger routing model that favors direct connections over connections with transfers.
We consider multi-commodity flow problems in which capacities are installed on paths. In this setting, it is often important to distinguish between flows on direct connection routes, using single paths, and flows that include path switching. We show that the concept of metric inequalities to characterize capacities that
support a multi-commodity flow can be generalized to deal with direct connections.
Steiner trees are constructed to connect a set of terminal nodes in a graph. This basic version of the Steiner tree problem is idealized, but it can effectively guide the search for successful approaches to many relevant variants, from both a theoretical and a computational point of view. This article illustrates the theoretical and algorithmic progress on Steiner tree type problems on two examples, the Steiner connectivity and the Steiner tree packing problem.
Dieses Dokument fasst den Stand der mathematischen Modellierung von
Preissystemen des öV mittels eines am ZIB entwickelten Tarifgraphenmodells zusammen. Damit sind sehr einfache und konzise
Beschreibungen von Tarifstrukturen möglich, die sich algorithmisch
behandeln lassen: Durch das zeitgleiche Tracken eines Pfades im
Routinggraphen im Tarifgraphen kann schon während einer Routenberechnung der Preis bestimmt werden. Wir beschreiben
zunächst das Konzept. Die konkrete Realisierung wird im Folgenden
beispielhaft an den Tarifsystemen der Verkehrsverbünde Warnow,
MDV, Vogtland, Bremen/Niedersachsen, Berlin/Brandenburg und Mittelsachsen erläutert. Anschließend folgen Überlegungen zur konkreten Implementierung von Kurzstrecken-Tarifen und zur Behandlung des Verbundübergriffs.
In dieser Arbeit wird ein graphenbasiertes Modell zur Einbindung von Preissystemen des öffentlichen Nahverkehrs in Routing-Algorithmen vorgestellt. Jeder Knoten des Graphen repräsentiert einen abstrakten Preiszustand einer Route und ist an einen tatsächlichen Preis gekoppelt. Damit sind sehr einfache und konzise Beschreibungen von Tarifstrukturen möglich, diesich algorithmisch behandeln lassen. Durch das zeitgleiche Tracken eines Pfades im Routinggraphen im Ticketgraphen kann schon während einer Routenberechnung der Preis bestimmt werden. Dies ermöglicht die Berechnung von preisoptimalen Routen. An den Tarifsystemen der Verkehrsverbünde MDV (Mitteldeutscher Verkehrsverbund) und VBB (Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg) wird die Konstruktion des Modells detailliert erläutert.
A Simple Way to Compute the Number of Vehicles That Are Required to Operate a Periodic Timetable
(2018)
We consider the following planning problem in public transportation: Given a periodic timetable, how many vehicles are required to operate it? In [9], for this sequential approach, it is proposed to first expand the periodic timetable over time, and then answer the above question by solving a flow-based aperiodic optimization problem. In this contribution we propose to keep the compact periodic representation of the timetable and simply solve a particular perfect matching problem. For practical networks, it is very much likely that the matching problem decomposes into several connected components. Our key observation is that there is no need to change any turnaround decision for the vehicles of a line during the day, as long as the timetable stays exactly the same.
A Simple Way to Compute the Number of Vehicles That Are Required to Operate a Periodic Timetable
(2018)
We consider the following planning problem in public transportation: Given a
periodic timetable, how many vehicles are required to operate it?
In [9], for this sequential approach, it is proposed to first expand the periodic
timetable over time, and then answer the above question by solving a flow-based
aperiodic optimization problem.
In this contribution we propose to keep the compact periodic representation of
the timetable and simply solve a particular perfect matching problem. For practical
networks, it is very much likely that the matching problem decomposes into several
connected components. Our key observation is that there is no need to change any
turnaround decision for the vehicles of a line during the day, as long as the timetable
stays exactly the same.
We extend the primal-dual approximation technique of Goemans and Williamson to the Steiner connectivity problem, a kind of Steiner tree problem in hypergraphs. This yields a (k+1)-approximation algorithm for the case that k is the minimum of the maximal number of nodes in a hyperedge minus 1 and the maximal number of terminal nodes in a hyperedge. These results require the proof of a degree property for terminal nodes in hypergraphs which generalizes the well-known graph property that the average degree of terminal nodes in Steiner trees is at most 2.
The treatment of transfers is a major challenge in line planning. Existing models either route passengers and lines sequentially, and hence disregard essential degrees of freedom, or they are of
extremely large scale, and seem to be computationally intractable. We propose a novel direct connection approach that allows an integrated optimization of line and passenger routing, including accurate estimates of the number of direct travelers, for large-scale real-world instances.
We propose a novel extended formulation for the line planning problem in public transport. It is based on a new concept of frequency configurations that account for all possible options to provide a required transportation capacity on an infrastructure edge. We show that this model yields a strong LP relaxation. It implies, in particular, general classes of facet defining inequalities for the standard model.