Nottingham Bus Route Optimisation Instances

The present datasets contain instance data and results which were presented in the publications "An Adaptive Scaled Network for Public Transport Route Optimisation" by Philipp Heyken Soares, Christine L. Mumford, Kwabena Amponsah and Yong Mao, 2019 in "Public Transport" (Springer), and "Optimising Bus Routes with Fixed Terminal Nodes: Comparing Hyper-heuristics with NSGAII on Realistic Transportation" by Leena Ahmed, Philipp Heyken Soares, Christine L. Mumford, and Yong Mao at the GECCO 2019 conference.

The data sets can be found in the folder Instance_Data_ASN ("Adaptive Scaled Network...") and Instance_Data_OBR ("Optimising Bus Routes..."). Both contain the instance data sets of the respective publications in the subfolder. These include: - X_Nodes.csv/.txt: Contains information on the network nodes (node IDs, longitude and latitude coordinates, and if the respective node is a potential terminal (1-yes, 0-no) ) - X_TravelTimes.csv/.txt: Contains a symmetrical matrix with the travel times between directly connected nodes in minutes (see ASN section 2.4).