A First Approach to the Optimization of Bogota´’s TransMilenio BRT System Francisco J. Pen˜a, Antonio Jime´nez and Alfonso Mateos Decision Analysis and Statistics Group (DASG) Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Polite´cnica de Madrid Campus de Montegancedo S/N, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, SPAIN Email:
[email protected], {ajimenez, amateos}@fi.upm.es http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/grupos/dasg/index.htm Abstract—Bus rapid transit (BRT) systems are massive trans There are very few proposals in the literature focused on port systems with medium/high capacity, high quality service and optimizing the BRT system operation, mainly because they are low infrastructure and operating costs. TransMilenio is Bogota´’s relatively recent phenomena, and many of the currently operat most important mass transportation system and one of the biggest ing BRT systems are far from reaching maximum capacity. To BRT systems in the world, although it only has completed its the best of our knowledge, there are not automatic proposals third construction phase out of a total of eight. In this paper we for route design. The closest to this is the model proposed in review the proposals in the literature to optimize BRT system operation, with a special emphasis on TransMilenio, and propose [2]) that evaluates and selects the best several routes. a mathematical model that adapts elements of the above proposals and incorporates novel elements accounting for the features of In this paper we review of the proposals in the literature TransMilenio system. to optimize BRT system operation, with a special emphasis on TransMilenio, and propose a mathematical model that adapts elements of the above proposals and incorporates novel elements accounting for the features of TransMilenio system.