SCHEDULING DIAL-A-RIDE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS: AN ASYMPTOTIC APPROACH

There has been some recent interest in the Dial-a-Ride proposal for innovative public transportation systems. These schemes ideally provide large numbers of passengers with personalized service. A passenger is taken from his origin to his destination by a small bus; the bus may deviate en-route to collect and deliver additional passengers. In such systems the central mathematical problem is one of scheduling: the assignment of a passenger to a bus and the determination of a time for the trip.

• Corporate Authors:

  Harvard University

  Division of Engineering and Applied Science, 29 Oxford Street
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02138
• Authors:
  • STEIN, D M
• Publication Date: 1977-9

Media Info

• Pagination: 142 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Algorithms; Combinatorial analysis; Distributions (Statistics); Optimization; Passenger vehicles; Public utilities; Scheduling; Travel time
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00169416
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: TR-670, Interim Report
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 14 2002 12:00AM