Fair Railway Network Design
Social and Information Networks
2024-09-05 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
When designing a public transportation network in a country, one may want to minimise the sum of travel duration of all inhabitants. This corresponds to a purely utilitarian view and does not involve any fairness consideration, as the resulting network will typically benefit the capital city and/or large central cities while leaving some peripheral cities behind. On the other hand, a more egalitarian view will allow some people to travel between peripheral cities without having to go through a central city. We define a model, propose algorithms for computing solution networks, and report on experiments based on real data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.02152,
title = {Fair Railway Network Design},
author = {Zixu He and Sirin Botan and Jérôme Lang and Abdallah Saffidine and Florian Sikora and Silas Workman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02152},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
32 pages, 18 figures