SynphOnie

Project Description

SynphOnie's Goal

Given a mobility demand and a road network, the task is to determine a "good" transportation offering.
"Good" means:

• Short travel times for passengers
• Low costs for operators
• Low CO₂ emissions, low energy consumption

Specific Questions:

• Is a tram needed?
• In which areas do we provide scheduled bus services?
  Which routes are established?
• Where do we complement with ridepooling offers?
  How many vehicles are needed?
• For which mobility desires do we recommend a car?

Illustration

Given: Road network and demand

Goal: Determine a good transportation offer

Evaluation of Transportation Offer

Required for this:

• 🚌: Lines, frequencies, schedule, rotation plan, (duty roster)
  → Costs, traveled kilometers (energy and CO₂)
• 🚈: Lines, frequencies, schedule, rotation plan, (duty roster)
  → Costs, traveled kilometers (energy and CO₂)
• 🚐: Number of vehicles, route planning, typical routes for a day
  → Costs, traveled kilometers (energy and CO₂)

Determine passenger behavior (given transportation offer under equilibrium constraints)

• → 🚗 Costs, traveled kilometers (energy and CO₂)
• → Travel times

Challenge and Our Approach

Challenge:

• Public transportation planning is challenging (including the timetable alone)
• Routing under equilibrium constraints is challenging
• Optimally determining 🚗🚐🚌🚈 together is challenging

⇒ We need a simplification

Idea:

Decomposition into

• A coarse model and
• Models for fine planning of 🚗🚐🚌🚈

Planned Approach:

1. Coarse Model
2. Fine Models for Tram 🚈, Bus 🚌, and Ridepooling 🚐
3. Passenger Equilibrium Routing
4. Evaluation

SynphOnie's Idea: