Affiliations: [a] Logistics Research Group, National Maritime Research Institute, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan | [b] Faculty of Electro-Communications, The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan | [c] Department of Logistics and Information Engineering, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan | [d] SocioTechData, Tokyo, Japan
Correspondence:
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Corresponding author: Takahiro Majima, Logistics Research Group, National Maritime Research Institute, 6-38-1, Shinkawa, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. E-mail:majy@nmri.go.jp
Abstract: Scheduled transportation service is a proper system for mass transportation
and it is adopted by wide range of transportation modes, such as railway,
airline, maritime container shipping and bus. The providers of the service
are required to generate effective routes and networks. For this issue, this
paper tackles the problem of generating Public Transport Network for
stranded commuter in a disaster. The stranded commuter problem in the Tokyo
Metropolitan area was posed by the Great East Japan Earthquake in the year
2011, where several millions of commuters had difficulties to return their
homes due to the out of service of the railway's transportation system. In
such a situation, bus and waterbus are expected as alternative
transportation modes and transportation networks should be generated from
scratch for bus and waterbus. In particular, the hub-spoke network is
effective for a mass transportation. However, it is a tough problem to
design trunk lines and branch lines simultaneously from scratch. As the
first step towards the goal, this paper starts to focus on the local
transportation network (branch lines), which connect to the trunk line. The
method in this paper is based on a network evolution model that is
investigated actively in the research field of complex networks. The
characteristic and capability of the developed method are reported.
