 Instance generation tool for on-demand transportation problemsMichell Queiroz, Flavien Lucas and Kenneth Sörensen European Journal of Operational Research, 2024, vol. 317, issue 3, 696-717 Abstract: We present REQreate, a tool to generate instances for on-demand transportation problems. Such problems consist of optimizing vehicle routes according to passengers’ demand for transportation under space and time restrictions (called requests). REQreate is flexible and can be configured to generate instances for a variety of problems types in this problem class. In this paper, we exemplify this with the Dial-a-Ride Problem (DARP) and On-demand Bus Routing Problem (ODBRP). In most of the literature, researchers either test their solution algorithms with instances based on artificial networks or they perform real-life case studies on instances derived from a specific city or region. Furthermore, locations of requests for on-demand transportation problems are mostly randomly chosen according to a uniform distribution, rather than being derived from actual data. Keywords: Transportation; Instance generator; On-demand public transport; REQreate (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:ejores:v:317:y:2024:i:3:p:696-717 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2024.03.006 Access Statistics for this article European Journal of Operational Research is currently edited by Roman Slowinski, Jesus Artalejo, Jean-Charles. Billaut, Robert Dyson and Lorenzo Peccati More articles in European Journal of Operational Research from Elsevier |
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