Metro-based Co-transportation

This book presents a comprehensive summary of an innovative facet of metro operation: the co-transportation of passengers and freight. It delves into this topic specifically through the lenses of advanced modeling approaches and efficient solution algorithms. This book employs innovative modeling approaches to depict the co-transportation issues based on the metro system and devises highly efficient algorithms to address them. Moreover, it offers several extensions, such as the impact of metro-based co-transportation on urban traffic carbon emissions, metro-based same-city express delivery services, and the high-speed railway model for combined passenger and freight transportation, among others. The book’s content primarily encompasses the following aspects. Firstly, it focuses on the optimization of the coordination between freight and passenger transportation, starting from a single line scenario and gradually expanding to a network-wide scope. Secondly, it explores the collaboration mechanisms between road and subway systems. Additionally, it examines the same-city express delivery model leveraging the subway infrastructure, among other related topics. The intended readership includes enterprise managers involved in subway operations, as well as students and researchers focused on passenger and freight coordination. Additionally, it targets students and managers engaged in multi-modal transportation.