Abstract This paper addresses a school bus routing problem formulated as capacitated and time-constrained open vehicle with heterogeneous fleet single loads. incorporates several realistic features, such student eligibility, maximum walking distances, stop selection, riding times, different types of buses, multistops, dwell times. A heuristic algorithm based on an iterated local search approach...

The emphasis of this research effort was on using AVL and APC dynamic data to develop a bus travel time model capable of providing real-time information on bus arrival and departure times to passengers (via traveler information services) and to transit controllers for the application of proactive control strategies. The developed model is comprised of two Kalman filter algorithms for the predic...

Spatial accessibility is a critical consideration in the provision of services, both public and private. In public transit planning, accessibility is comprised of access and geographic coverage. Interestingly, these two considerations are somewhat at odds with each other. Access is important because it is the process associated with getting to and departing from the service. Such access is typi...

Local bus network is the most popular transit mode and the only available transit mode in the majority of cities of the world. Increasing the utility of this mode which increases its share from urban trips is an important goal for city planners. Timetable setting as the second component of bus network design problem (network route design timetable setting vehicle assignment crew assignment) hav...