Urban Bus Transport Job Scheduler

Nowadays public transportation is well-developed in spite of that sometimes it is not as efficient as expected. In some other cases they are so disorganized that it offers unsatisfactory services. There is lots of work that needs to be done in order to make public transportation services more efficient such as making timetables, providing a job scheduler program or even renewing bus lines. In many cases they already seem to be efficient but it can be always questioned, truly how much are they? Can we make them more efficient? And these questions remain unanswered. In this paper a new kind of job-shop scheduler is introduced which is expected to be more efficient than older ones. There are two resources in a bus line, drivers and buses and the goal is to optimize the number of buses in bus lines in particular time. Indeed it's the drivers who need to rest not the buses, so another driver who had enough rest, can continue driving the bus in the line which the system asks to. In this paper the authors demonstrate there is a relation between days and months of a year and the passengers of a bus line. The authors can make a dynamic program for buses which can provide better service and be more efficient.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission from Intelligent Transportation Society of America.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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• Authors:
  • Salehi, Sajjad
  • Sadafi, Ario
  • Gheidari, Saeed Shiri
• Conference:
  • 18th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Orlando Florida, United States
  • Date: 2011-10-16 to 2011-10-20
• Publication Date: 2011

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 12p
• Monograph Title: 18th ITS World Congress, Orlando, 2011. Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bus drivers; Bus transit; Optimization; Passenger transportation; Schedules and scheduling; Timetables
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01449955
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 22 2012 9:14AM