Journal of Geographic Information System

Volume 12, Issue 6 (December 2020)

ISSN Print: 2151-1950   ISSN Online: 2151-1969

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Transit Network Design Using GIS and Ant Colony Optimization in Sanandaj

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DOI: 10.4236/jgis.2020.126037    529 Downloads   1,528 Views  Citations
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The public transit system in Sanandaj has been under review and modification for the last several years. The goal is to reduce the traffic congestion and the share of private car usage in the city and increase the very low share of the public transit. The bus routes in Sanandaj are not connected. There is no connected transit network with the ability to transfer between the routes in locations outside of the downtown terminal. The routes mostly connect the downtown core directly to the peripheries without providing travel options for passengers between peripheries. Although there has been some improvement in the transit system, lack of service in many populated districts of Sanandaj and town nearby makes the transit system unpopular and unreliable. This research is an attempt to provide solutions for the transit network design (TND) problem in Sanandaj using the capabilities of GIS and artificial intelligence methods. GIS offers several tools that enable the decision-makers to investigate the spatial correlations between different features. One of the contributions of this research is developing a transit network design with utilizing a spectrum of GIS software modeling functionalities. The visual ability of GIS is used to generate TNDs. Many studies focus on artificial intelligence as the main method to generate the TNDs, but the focus of this research is to combine GIS and artificial intelligence capabilities in order to generate a multi-objective GIS-based procedure to construct different bus network designs and explore and evaluate them to find the suitable transit network alternative.

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Ahmadi, A. (2020) Transit Network Design Using GIS and Ant Colony Optimization in Sanandaj. Journal of Geographic Information System, 12, 646-662. doi: 10.4236/jgis.2020.126037.

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