P-hub problem for park and ride facility location with congestion

Abstract

Traffic congestion is a major problem in urban areas. This problem is usually occurred from the number of private vehicles in a limited road capacity. One good solution to deal with this problem is to encourage travelers to use public transportation system. Park and ride facility supports such encouragement. Therefore, the site selection of park and ride facility is an important factor. This study provides a p-hub problem for park and ride facility location. A classical p-hub problem is integrated with the Multinomial Logit (MNL) model to consider the travel choice behavior under the optimal facility location. Specifically, the Special Ordered Sets of Type 2 (SOS2) is used to consider the congestion effect. The result shows that the proposed Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) conform with Multinomial logit within the constraints.