A Survey on Demand-Responsive Transportation for Rural and Interurban Mobility

  1. Pasqual Martí 1
  2. Jaume Jordán 1
  3. María Angélica González Arrieta 2
  4. Vicente Julian 1
  1. 1 Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
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    Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

    Valencia, España

    ROR https://ror.org/01460j859

  2. 2 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Revista:
IJIMAI

ISSN: 1989-1660

Año de publicación: 2023

Volumen: 8

Número: 3

Páginas: 43-54

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.9781/IJIMAI.2023.07.010 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Resumen

Rural areas have been marginalized when it comes to flexible, quality transportation research. This review article brings together papers that discuss, analyze, model, or experiment with demand-responsive transportation systems applied to rural settlements and interurban transportation, discussing their general feasibility as well as the most successful configurations. For that, demand-responsive transportation is characterized and the techniques used for modeling and optimization are described. Then, a classification of the relevant publications is presented, splitting the contributions into analytical and experimental works. The results of the classification lead to a discussion that states open issues within the topic: replacement of public transportation with demandresponsive solutions, disconnection between theoretical and experimental works, user-centered design and its impact on adoption rate, and a lack of innovation regarding artificial intelligence implementation on the proposed systems.

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