 Collaborative vehicle-crew scheduling for multiple routes with a mixed fleet of electric and fuel busesYuan Cong, Yiming Bie, Ziyan Liu and Aoze Zhu Energy, 2024, vol. 298, issue C Abstract: Since some fuel buses have not yet reached their retirement age, many cities still have a mix of fuel buses and electric buses (EBs) operating. This study focuses on multiple bus routes with fuel-electric mixed fleet. To address operation problems arising from separately scheduling vehicles and crews (known as the two-stage method) of each route, we propose a collaborative approach to optimize the vehicle dispatching plan and crew scheduling plan. Initially, we establish a nonlinear programming model by minimizing the overall operating costs of bus companies, encompassing vehicle purchase costs, EB charging costs, fuel bus refueling costs, and driver labor costs. Next, we devise an improved simulated annealing algorithm to solve the model. The proposed method is validated through a case study involving three real-world routes. A comparison with the traditional two-stage method reveals promising outcomes. Results indicate that the proposed method can decrease the number of vehicle changes by 21.43 %, driver labor costs by 2.04 %, and daily operating costs for the bus company by 0.82 %. Keywords: Multiple routes; Electric bus; Fuel bus; Vehicle dispatching; Crew scheduling; Collaborative optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:298:y:2024:i:c:s0360544224011733 DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.131400 Access Statistics for this article Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser More articles in Energy from Elsevier |
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