Research Article

Multi-Objective Stochastic Synchronous Timetable Optimization Model Based on a Chance-Constrained Programming Method Combined with Augmented Epsilon Constraint Algorithm

Table 1

Compliance description of notations used in this study.

Set

Routes set,
The earliest card-brush time set of all vehicles in line N,
All card-brush time of the a(i)th bus in line N,

Parameters
Total number of cars in route n
Passenger transfer demand
Total drop-off time of all transfer passengers in line M
Total vehicle travel time for line M
Total vehicle travel time for line N
Mean of total vehicle travel time for line M
Mean of total vehicle travel time for line N
Boarding time of the transfer passenger who holds the ith IC card
Drop-off time of the transfer passenger who holds the ith IC card in line M
Boarding time of the transfer passenger who holds the ith IC card in line N
Number of trips corresponding to the record of the ith IC card in line N
The earliest card swiping time of the ith IC bus in line N
Total boarding time of all transfer passengers in line N
Departure time of the th bus online N in the existing timetable,
Total waiting time of passengers transferring from line M to line N
Total departure adjustment time of line M to line N
Optimized bus travel time online N
Maximum departure time interval
Minimum departure time interval
Adjustable range of departure timetable
Floating range of a vehicle’s travel time
The earliest departure times of a bus line
The latest departure times of a bus line
Maximum card swiping time of the th bus online N
Optimal value of derived from deterministic programming
Optimal value of derived from deterministic programming
Random travel time of vehicles online N
Confidence level of constraint satisfaction for stochastic programming
Mean of random travel time in line N
Variance of random travel time in line N
Probability that the random planning transfer time after considering the random variable is less than the deterministic planning transfer time

Decision variables
1 − 
Departure time of the -th bus online N in the optimized timetable