The school bus routing problem: a case study

L Y O Li () and Z Fu
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L Y O Li: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Z Fu: Central South University, Changsha, People's Republic of China

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2002, vol. 53, issue 5, 552-558

Abstract: Abstract This paper describes a case study of the school bus routing problem. It is formulated as a multi-objective combinatorial optimisation problem. The objectives considered include minimising the total number of buses required, the total travel time spent by pupils at all pick-up points, which is what the school and parents are concerned with most, and the total bus travel time. It also aims at balancing the loads and travel times between buses. A heuristic algorithm for its solution is proposed. The algorithm has been programmed and run efficiently on a PC. Numerical results are reported using test data from a kindergarten in Hong Kong. It has shown to be effective with a saving of 29% in total travelling times when comparing to current practice.

Keywords: vehicle routing; transport; heuristics; combinatorics; optimisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2601341

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