One Rule to Bring Them All: Investigating Transport Connectivity in Public Transport Route Generation for Equitable Access
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| author | Morozov, Aleksandr Kozliak, Ruslan Kontsevik, Georgii Mityagin, Sergey |
| author_facet | Morozov, Aleksandr Kozliak, Ruslan Kontsevik, Georgii Mityagin, Sergey |
| contents | Designing a city-wide public transport network poses a dual challenge: achieving computational efficiency while ensuring spatial equity for different population groups. We investigate whether AI-based optimization hybrid neuroevolutionary methods combining graph neural networks with evolutionary algorithms - can scale Transit Network Design Problem (TNDP) solutions from synthetic tests to real urban networks while preserving social fairness. Our contribution is to introduce a transport connectivity-aware accessibility metric that bases optimization on principles of equitable accessibility rather than traditional trade-offs between passenger and operator costs. The results show a noticeable improvement in network resilience by improving algebraic connectivity on synthetic datasets, and highlight the ambiguity of applying network generation to real data. |
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| spellingShingle | One Rule to Bring Them All: Investigating Transport Connectivity in Public Transport Route Generation for Equitable Access Morozov, Aleksandr Kozliak, Ruslan Kontsevik, Georgii Mityagin, Sergey Physics and Society Computers and Society Designing a city-wide public transport network poses a dual challenge: achieving computational efficiency while ensuring spatial equity for different population groups. We investigate whether AI-based optimization hybrid neuroevolutionary methods combining graph neural networks with evolutionary algorithms - can scale Transit Network Design Problem (TNDP) solutions from synthetic tests to real urban networks while preserving social fairness. Our contribution is to introduce a transport connectivity-aware accessibility metric that bases optimization on principles of equitable accessibility rather than traditional trade-offs between passenger and operator costs. The results show a noticeable improvement in network resilience by improving algebraic connectivity on synthetic datasets, and highlight the ambiguity of applying network generation to real data. |
| title | One Rule to Bring Them All: Investigating Transport Connectivity in Public Transport Route Generation for Equitable Access |
| topic | Physics and Society Computers and Society |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.15053 |