A new mathematical formulation for the static demand responsive transport problem

Manel Ayadi, Habib Chabchoub and Adnan Yassine

International Journal of Operational Research, 2017, vol. 29, issue 4, 495-507

Abstract: Demand responsive transport is a new transportation mode aiming to make the transportation system easier and more flexible. This mode allows passengers to be carried to their destinations through a set of transportation requests established by customers. These requests are to be answered by a single depot with different vehicle configurations. The idea is to group a number of passengers in the same vehicle respecting of the capacity of each vehicle in order to reduce the operational cost while maintaining a good quality of service. In this paper, we treated the static case of demand responsive transport problem. A new mathematical model for this problem is presented aiming to optimise the cost and the quality of service. This model integrates an original concept; penalty concept to enhance the quality of service. The model is validated on small and medium size instances.

Keywords: demand responsive transport problem; DRTP; optimisation models; pickup and delivery; integer programming; CPLEX; operational research. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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