Site Selection of Integrated Urban-Rural Passenger Transport Hubs by Using Combined Approach of Plant Growth Simulation and Genetic Algorithm

The reasonable distribution of passenger transportation hubs across a wider region plays a crucial role in ensuring the success of an integrated urban-rural transport system. To solve the problem of site selection of the passenger hubs in urban-rural integration areas, it develops a multi-objective decision-making model for site selection of passenger transport hubs. The model aims at minimizing the total travel time of the residents living in the area, constrained by the traffic flow balance, hub capacity, and number of planning hubs. Aiming at the problem that the local optimal solution is too close to the global optimal solution in the existing models, it formulates an algorithm, which combines the plant growth simulation and genetic algorithm in this paper. The proposed method and the algorithm was tested and validated with its application in the specific urban-rural area.