Bus Route Design Problem for Rural Tourism Objectives: A Multiobjective Approach

Table 6

Results of tourist bus routes after the design compared to the existing network.

Studied variables	Existing	Result with minimized generalized cost	Result with maximized quality of service
Tourist bus route amount	3	15	15
Total suburban and rural bus route amount	86	96	96
Accessible tourist attractions via the routes	8	21	21
Total generalized cost for all bus passengers in tourists	323684.27	283806.37	287512.17
Total level of service for tourist routes	491.6	1991.41	2083.75
Total tourist route length (km)	87.39	398.85	428.10
Average length of all tourist routes	29.13	26.59	28.54
Average nonlinear coefficient of all tourist routes	1.61	1.44	1.78
Ratio of bus trips with no transfer per trip	29.38%	83.38%	83.20%
Ratio of bus trips with one transfer per trip	46.80%	15.55%	15.78%
Ratio of bus trips with more than one transfer per trip	23.82%	1.07%	1.02%
Total transfer cost for all tourist passengers	13517.94	3858.20	3876.29