Routing Algorithms for the Safe Transportation of Pupils to School Using School Buses

This paper presents a methodology for the planning and the operation of the students’ transportation to and from school. The school transportation has a lot of hidden issues that make it difficult to be organized and managed (i.e. safety, punctuality, time, etc). This paper treats the school bus routing problem and proposes routing algorithms that could be applied when planning transportation for students who go to school by using school buses. Furthermore, this paper proposes a routing methodology for both pedestrians (from home to the bus stop and school bus and from the bus stop to the school and backwards), in order to provide to the children a safer and more efficient way to school. For this reason, a “Safe Map” concept, a map with safety parameters integrated to its links and its nodes, is constructed both for the pedestrian and the school bus route and it is presented below. Also, various solving algorithms are used and compared in terms of performance and processing time. These algorithms have been developed within the context of the European Project SAFEWAY2SCHOOL.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Institut Francais des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)

  14-20 bd Newton, Cité Descartes, Champs su Marne
  77447 Marne la Vallée,   France  Cedex 2
• Authors:
  • Chalkia, Eleni
  • Grau, Josep Maria Salanova
  • Bekiaris, Evangelos
  • Ayfandopoulou, Georgia
  • Ferarini, Chiara
  • Mitsakis, Evangelos
• Conference:
  • Transport Research Arena (TRA) 5th Conference: Transport Solutions from Research to Deployment
  • Location: Paris , France
  • Date: 2014-4-14 to 2014-4-17
• Publication Date: 2014-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 10p
• Monograph Title: Transport Research Arena (TRA) 2014 Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Maps; Pedestrian traffic; Routing; School buses; Students; Traffic safety
• Geographic Terms: Europe
• Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01529608
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: VTI, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jun 30 2014 9:44AM