Planificación estratégica de líneas en el Transporte Público de Cuenca, modelo para maximizar el número de pasajeros directos en el sistema de transporte público de Cuenca.

Abstract

This paper focuses on planning of transportation lines in the public transportation system of Cuenca, Ecuador, with the aim of maximizing the number of direct passengers. By analyzing the city’s context, we seek to optimize the existing bus routes to enhance the quality of service for users. The direct passenger maximization model proposed by Bussieck is thoroughly examined and adapted to Cuenca’s reality. We utilized Lin-Tim with Gurobi and Xpress solvers to solve the models on five instances prepared with real data from the city’s transportation companies. Four different experiments were conducted: the first on budget variation, the second on multi-criteria optimization, the third on model relaxation, and the last on the restrictions of line frequencies. Computational results and conclusions are presented.