A Basic Study on the Design Method of a Redundant Highway Network

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the design method of a redundant highway network considering the investment cost on the network. This problem is to design a highway network which has some alternate routes available between pairs of cities with minmum investment cost.
The hybrid type genetic algorithm is developed to design the network. practically. This method leads to an optimum solution which satisfies a prespesified redundancy criterion.