Title
A heuristic algorithm based on leaf photosynthate transport
Abstract
AbstractTransportation network design is non-deterministic polynomial-time hard due to its attributes of multi-objects, multi-constraints, and the non-convexity objective function. In this paper, a bi-level programming model is proposed for the transportation network design. The upper layer pursues the minimum total travel time of users and the total length of the road network simultaneously, while the lower layer is an equilibrium assignment model. A new algorithm for the network optimization based on the principle of leaf photosynthate transport in nature is proposed. The proposed algorithm simulates the natural selection of biological evolution and genetic transmission. It can retain the genetic idea of the evolutionary algorithm, together with the heuristic information update mechanism of swarm intelligence. Finally, empirical research is carried out with the Sioux Falls network to validate the performance of the proposed algorithm. The results show that although the total network length obtained by the proposed algorithm increases slightly compared with the ant colony algorithm and the genetic algorithm, the total travel time and objective function value reduce obviously. This indicates that the proposed algorithm has good performance on topology and efficiency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1177/0037549717733063
Periodicals
Keywords
Field
DocType
Heuristic algorithm,leaf photosynthate transport,evolutionary rule,transportation network optimization
Flow network,Mathematical optimization,Heuristic (computer science),Computer science,Real-time computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
94
7
0037-5497
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bin Yu123817.33
Wenxuan Shan210.36
Guo Zhen310.36
Yunpeng Wang419425.34