In developing countries, whereas the urban bus network is a major part of public transportation system, it is necessary to try to find the best design and routing for bus network. Optimum design of school bus routes is very important. Non-optimal solutions for this problem may increase traveling time, fuel consumption, and depreciation rate of the fleet. A new bus routing problem is presented i...

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...

this research presents and solves a new mathematical model for school bus routing problem (sbrp). sbrp is a specific case of vehicle routing problem (vrp). despite prevalent models, this model includes location and routing simultaneously. besides, the vehicles are non-homogenous. in addition, instead of locating schools which are the depots, we consider locating bus stops that are mentioned &ap...

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...

In the paper, a school bus routing problem, its mathematical models and solution methods are investigated. The aim of the study is to search for school bus routing problem and its solution method and to apply them for a sample case study. The case study concerns the routing and scheduling of school buses in an exemplary, well-recognized school located in one of Polish community. The problem is ...

This paper presents a set of test instances of the School Bus Routing Problem or SBRP. The test instances were created using an algorithm called SBRPGen. The depository of instances can be downloaded for others researchers for experimentation.

The School Bus Routing Problem (SBRP), a generalization of the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem, involves the routing, planning, and scheduling of public school bus transportation. The problem can be divided into several subproblems, including bus stop selection, assigning students to buses, and determining the bus routes. This work presents an exact branch-and-price framework for the SBRP, w...