| Summary |
Wei-Hao Chen, 2006.06
Department of Transportation Technology and Management
National Chiao Tung University
Station dispatching is an important operation model for taxi companies. A good station partition strategy can increase the operation efficiency, increase total income, and reduce customer waiting time.
This research proposes a model to partition service areas of taxi stations while considering total demands, passengers for each depot, customer waiting time and the shape of each area. Tabu search algorithm is adopted to solve the proposed model. Moreover, a decision support system based operation environment is provided for users to evaluation different partition strategies.
This research use both real world and simulation data for our evaluation purpose. The simulation data testing shows that our model provides adequate flexibility for accommodation various decision styles. The real work data testing demonstrates that the proposed model can improve the exiting stations partition. |
