Public transit is an essential infrastructure enabling access to employment, healthcare, education, and recreational facilities. While accessibility to transit is important in general, some sections of the population depend critically on transit. However, existing public transit is often not designed equitably, and often, equity is only considered as an additional objective post hoc, which hampers systemic changes. We present a formulation for transit network design that considers different notions of equity and welfare explicitly. We study the interaction between network design and various concepts of equity and present trade-offs and results based on real-world data from a large metropolitan area in the United States of America.
翻译:公共过境是获得就业、保健、教育和娱乐设施的基本基础设施,虽然一般而言,获得过境的机会很重要,但部分人口严重依赖过境,然而,现有的公共过境往往不是公平地设计的,而且往往只是被视为妨碍系统变革的附加目标后临时安排。我们提出过境网络设计方案,明确考虑不同的公平和福利概念。我们研究网络设计和各种公平概念之间的相互作用,并根据美利坚合众国大都市地区的真实世界数据提出取舍和结果。