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Transit agencies have experienced dramatic changes in service and ridership because of the COVID-19 pandemic. As communities transition to a new normal, strategic measures are needed to support continuing disease suppression efforts. This research provides actionable results to transit agencies in the form of improved transit routes. A multi-objective heuristic optimization framework employing the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II algorithm generates multiple route solutions that allow transit agencies to balance the utility of service to riders against the susceptibility of routes to enabling the spread of disease in a community. This research uses origin–destination data from a sample population to assess the utility of routes to potential riders, allows vehicle capacity constraints to be varied to support social distancing efforts, and evaluates the resulting transit encounter network produced from the simulated use of transit as a proxy for the susceptibility of a transit system to facilitating the transmission of disease among its riders. A case study of transit at Oregon State University is presented with multiple transit network solutions evaluated and the resulting

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Author

Sylvan Hoover; J. David Porter; Claudio Fuentes

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Engineering (Physical Sciences)