Estimation of Passenger Origin-Destination Matrices and Efficiency Evaluation of Public Transportation

In analyzing and evaluating the efficiency of a transportation system, origin-destination matrices are important. In this paper, we propose an optimization model to estimate origin-destination matrices. The proposed model is easily handled since it is a convex quadratic optimization model. We validate the proposed model using numerical results from real-world data. In addition, we use our model to evaluate the efficiency of a real-world bus service.