Laporte, GilbertMesa López-Colmenar, Juan AntonioOrtega Riejos, Francisco Alonso2021-01-272021-01-272000Laporte, G., Mesa López-Colmenar, J.A. y Ortega Riejos, F.A. (2000). Optimization methods for the planning of rapid transit systems. European Journal of Operational Research, 122 (1), 1-10.0377-2217https://hdl.handle.net/11441/104260A central question when planning rapid transit systems is the determination of alignments and stations. Operational research methods can help solve these problems and they are also useful for the assessment of the network characteristics. This survey article reviews the main available methods.application/pdf10engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Rapid Transit SystemsAlignmentsStationsLocationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0377-2217(99)00016-8