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Optimization of Passenger Transportation Problem

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  • Park, Jun-Hyuk (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, POSTECH) ;
  • Kim, Byung-In (Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, POSTECH) ;
  • Kim, Seong-Bae (Institute of Information Technology, Inc. (IIT)) ;
  • Sahoo, Surya (Institute of Information Technology, Inc. (IIT))
  • Received : 2009.12.10
  • Accepted : 2010.05.06
  • Published : 2010.06.01
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Abstract

In this paper, we present the study of a real passenger transportation system. Passenger transportation problem aims to transport passengers from bus stops to their destinations by a fleet of vehicles while satisfying various constraints such as vehicle capacity, maximum allowable riding time in a bus, and time windows at destinations. Our problem also has special issues such as mixed loading, consideration of afternoon problem together with morning problem, and transferring passengers between vehicles. Our solution approach consists of three serial procedures: bus route generation, bus scheduling, and post optimization. Efficient heuristic algorithms were developed and implemented for the procedures. The proposed solution approach has been successfully applied to several real world problem instances and could reduce about 10% to 15% of buses.

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