An Experience of Optimization Approach Application to Improve the Urban Passenger Transport Structure

The results of the private passenger transport structure parameter estimation are presented (i.e. the transport vehicle number at each route path, payment, and passenger flow prediction) in order to achieve the concordance between the partially conflicting interests of transport vehicle owners, municipal governance, route motion controllers, and passengers as participants of the whole transport system operation. The problem is formulated in the terms of the multi-objective optimization. The two methods of objective vector scalarization are applied and compared. The first method is based on the vector components weighting approach while another method follows the Tchebycheff’s equalization ideas. The transport system parameter values determined via application of both methods are similar. The optimization and simulation results show that the profit of the transport owners can be increased up to 20% and at the same time common private transport vehicle number can be reduced at least twice without passenger service worsening.