The school bus routing and scheduling problem deals with the transportation of pupils from home to school in the morning and from school to home in the evening. It is a problem in public transportation and differs from typical vehicle routing problems in several aspects, as for example pointed out in [6]. Variants of this problem are often studied in literature. A comprehensive overview of exis...

Background. Bus transit time prediction is to predict how long it takes for a bus to travel from point A to point B. Good prediction helps with urban transportation planning and bus riders’ time planning. Artificial neural networks have been proven to work well in this field. Aim. This project aims to make good travel time predictions for both route and segments of route with the bus GPS data u...

This paper proposes a multicriteria model for assessing public bus operation systems based on the ELECTRE method in the city of Eskisehir, Turkey. In this specific problem, public and expert opinions towards the privatization of urban bus lines were collected through a comprehensive survey to determine the best operation system; either by the local authority or private operators. The data colle...

in our country, school bus routes are determined by experiments of driver without considering the scientific optimum route and location. traversing additional routes will always result an increase in vehicle movements and fuel consumption and enormous costs. hence, this paper will study the school bus routing in tehran considering special students and a model will be presented to minimize trave...

Evolution of public road transportation systems requires analysis and planning tools to improve service quality. A wide range of road transportation simulation tools exist with a variety of applications in planning, training and demonstration. However, few simulation models take into account traveler behaviors and vehicle operation specific to public transportation. We present in this paper a b...

Demand Bus System, a new public transportation system, is expected to be a convenient service for special transportation demands to solve more and more serious traffic problems concerning metropolises as Shanghai. Under this background, this paper focuses on evaluating the usability of the demand bus system rather than on the algorithms as the previous researches did. As a useful evaluation too...

Evolution of public road transportation system requires analysis and planning tools to improve the service quality. A wide range of road transportation simulation tools exist with a variety of applications in planning, training and demonstration. However, few simulations take into account the specificities of public transportation. We present in this paper a bus network simulation which models ...

Transportation is one of the main activities related to creating value for the tourists. Transport management in tourism mainly focuses on managing transfer points and vehicle capacity. However, transport service level must also be ensured as it now relates to tourist’s experiences. This paper emphasizes on the responsiveness as one of key service performance measures. An evaluation framework i...