Disruption management in public transit: the bee colony optimization approach

Miloš Nikolić, Dušan Teodorović and Katarina Vukadinović

Transportation Planning and Technology, 2015, vol. 38, issue 2, 162-180

Abstract: Disruptions in carrying out planned bus schedules occur daily in many public transit companies. Disturbances are often so large that it is necessary to perform re-planning of planned bus and crew activities. Dispatchers in charge of traffic operations must frequently find an answer to the following question in a very short period of time: How should available buses be distributed among bus routes in order to minimize total passengers' waiting time on the network? We propose a model for assigning buses to scheduled routes when there is a shortage of buses. The proposed model is based on the bee colony optimization (BCO) technique. It is a biologically inspired method that explores collective intelligence applied by honey bees during the nectar collecting process. It has been shown that this developed BCO approach can generate high-quality solutions within negligible processing times.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2014.997447

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