Personal Rapid Transit Networks and Demands

Training and evaluation networks and demands used in:

[1] John D. Lees-Miller. "Empty Vehicle Redistribution for Personal Rapid
Transit." Ph.D. thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.649440

Each folder contains a test network and one or more demand matrices.

The naming convention for folders is
__
for synthentic systems (e.g. grid) and
_
for case study systems (e.g. corby_cm). The delay is added to the basic shortest
path trip times to ensure that the strict triangle inequality holds.

Each system has:

trip_times_annotated.txt: station-to-station trip times in seconds; each origin is a row, and each column is a destination

demand_matrix_annotated_name.txt: station-to-station demand in passenger trips
per hour (unless otherwise noted; some case studies have been scaled to reflect
average occupancy estimates and/or mode perceived capacity limitations); each origin is a row, and each column is a destination

name.graphml: the network; nodes with labels are stations; locations are in
meters (because the earth is approximately flat); speeds are in meters per
second (usually assumed to be 10m/s, because detailed speed profiles were not
usually available)

The files in emat20005 are in the format for the "ATS/CityMobil Simulator", a
proprietary simulator available from ULTra Global PRT (www.ultraglobalprt.com).
They are zip files that contain an XML file with the network and demand data.
These data were extracted to produce the test* systems. These networks were
generated as part of a student project, as described in [1].