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Designing a Backbone Trunk for the Public Transportation Network in Montevideo, Uruguay

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Massive public infrastructure is usually structured into hierarchical levels, where different technologies handle different scales of requirements allowing most efficient and scalable implementations. In opposition to the aforementioned architecture, the public transport system in Montevideo (Uruguay) uses a single/flat level, with buses as the only means. This work explores the performance benefits and the cost feasibility of a new hierarchically segmented metropolitan trunk network for the public system in Montevideo, a problem that is tackled through combinatorial optimization approaches. The reference structure assumes light railway trams (LRTs) are used to massively transfer passengers between remote points of the city, while buses are reassigned as feeders of the new backbone in the network. The real-world example integrates demands information, realistic travel and waiting times as well as standard deployment costs. Results show that this new structure is economically competitive and significantly better in terms of quality of service.

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  1. Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Claudio Risso & Sergio Nesmachnow

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    Luis Hernández Callejo

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Risso, C., Nesmachnow, S. (2020). Designing a Backbone Trunk for the Public Transportation Network in Montevideo, Uruguay. In: Nesmachnow, S., Hernández Callejo, L. (eds) Smart Cities. ICSC-CITIES 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1152. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38889-8_18

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