# Fair Railway Network Design

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02152 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.02152/

## Key facts

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- First posted on arXiv 3 Sep 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Participatory Budgeting with Project Groups](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2012.05213/) (2020)

## Abstract (arXiv)

When designing a public transportation network in a country, one may want to minimise the sum of travel duration of all inhabitants. This corresponds to a purely utilitarian view and does not involve any fairness consideration, as the resulting network will typically benefit the capital city and/or large central cities while leaving some peripheral cities behind. On the other hand, a more egalitarian view will allow some people to travel between peripheral cities without having to go through a central city. We define a model, propose algorithms for computing solution networks, and report on experiments based on real data.