Practice Summary: Improving Bus Routing for KIPP Charter Schools

Michael W. Levin () and Stephen D. Boyles ()
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Michael W. Levin: Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
Stephen D. Boyles: Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712

Interfaces, 2016, vol. 46, issue 2, 196-199

Abstract: KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Program) provides school bus service to the majority of its students over a relatively large geographic region. We applied the Clarke-Wright heuristic in to quickly find routes that adhere to capacity and travel-time constraints. These routes improved transportation spending and reliability significantly over the previous routes that KIPP used.

Keywords: bus routing; vehicle routing problem; public transit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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