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Trans. Planning Journal
| Title | Routing School Bus for Contract Carriers |
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| Author | Chih-Hung Lin, Chuen-Yih Chen, Yu-Li Lin, hih-Hyang Tserng |
| Summary | Many private schools offer school buses for their students; however, only a few of them run the business on their own while considering the operation cost. Those schools which own buses usually take schools as bus depots. This school bus routing planning can be viewed as a kind of general vehicle routing planning. However, if school buses are operated by outsources, the characteristics of the school bus routing planning are different in terms of vehicle dispatch and benefit calculation. This paper explores the routing problem of the school buses run by outsources, and selects a junior college in southern Taiwan as the case for study. Furthermore, a mathematical programming model is built for this bus routing problem. A location based heuristic (LBH) is employed to solve the routing problem. The case study shows that the heuristic seems to be promising. |
| Vol. | 31 |
| No. | 2 |
| Page | 391 |
| Year | 2002 |
| Month | 6 |
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