A New Integrated Multimodal Multi-criteria Route Planning Method in Bus Network Considering Passengers's Walking Behavior

Route planning systems in bus networks play a key role in providing a better experience to passengers for public transportation services. The existing systems satisfy the multicriteria in two ways. One way is firstly to find the k-shortest paths, then these paths are compared according to the given multi-criteria to select the ultimate path. Another way is to search for a set of Pareto paths with multi-criteria. However, both of the above systems only consider users' preferences qualitatively but not quantitatively. As a result, they can not integrate multicriteria as a single criterion based on users' quantitative preferences. Therefore, in this paper, a new integrated multi-criteria route planning method is proposed for searching the optimal path in a bus network according to passengers' quantitative references. Multi objectives being considered in this work are arrival time, walking time and number of bus transfers. A set of simulation scenarios is executed to show the performance of proposed new system.