One of the problems faced by Bus Transport Systems in India is low occupancy rate. Efforts are being made by Bus Transport Corporations to improve bus occupancy by requesting the public to use buses over other modes of transport. One of the reasons for low occupancy is that a passenger normally does not know the bus scheduling information, and bus-arrival timing information to bus-stops. Trends...

A growing number of control systems are distributed and based on the use of a communication bus. The distributed nodes execute periodic tasks, which access the bus by releasing the messages using a priority-based mechanism with the goal of minimal message response times. Instead of randomly accessing the bus, a dynamic scheduling of messages technique based on adaptation of time offsets between...

School bus planning is usually divided into routing and scheduling due to the complexity of solving them concurrently. However, the separation between these two steps may lead to worse solutions with higher overall costs than that from solving them together. When finding the minimal number of trips in the routing problem, neglecting the importance of trip compatibility may increase the number o...

We focus on control systems in which sensors send data to actuators via a bus shared with other applications. An approach is proposed for specifying and implementing dynamic scheduling policies for the bus with performance guarantees. Specifically, we propose an automata-based scheduler which we automatically generate from a model of the controlled plant and the controller. We show that, in add...

Bus driver scheduling problem is one of most important and complex problem faced by many companies and bus terminals. This paper attempts to solve this problem using paramterless evolutionary algorithms, TLBO and JAYA algorithm. The objective of this paper is to assign the drivers to duty on a particular day and block duty by satisfying the constraints. Algorithms are tested on four randomly ge...

The flexibility of bus rapid transit (BRT) in scheduling is one of the greatest differences with traditional buses. In order to improve BRT operation quality, the paper studied the headway optimization and scheduling combination of BRT vehicles. A model has been established to minimize passengers’ travel costs and vehicles’ operation cost, and constraints included passenger volume, time, and fr...

In the last years, the sensitive increase of congestion phenomena in the urban areas has produced important changes for the role reserved to the public transport. This should become the main tool to solve urban transport problem. Critical phase for the planning of the public transport system is the network design problem (determination of routes and associated frequencies). This step may affect...

This paper presents the application of Genetic algorithm (GA) to solve the economic load dispatch problem of the power system. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm has been demonstrated on two different test systems considering the transmission losses. Test system-1 includes a three generator system and test system-2 includes an IEEE 30-bus system. The results of test system-1 are compar...

We describe an environment to produce traces representing significant workloads for a shared-bus shared-memory multiprocessor used as a general-purpose multitasking machine, where each processor can include multithread facilities. By means of an exclusively software approach, the environment produces traces that include both user and kernel references, starting from source traces containing onl...

We present a tool suite for working with hierarchical bus schedule/arbitration descriptions for nodes sharing a bus in real-time applications. These schedules can be based on a variety of factors including time slicing and the characteristics of messages. These schedules are represented in a tree-like structure. Using this structure we can describe many popular arbitration schemes, and automati...