Title
Meta-Heuristics for a Class of Demand-Responsive Transit Systems
Abstract
The demand-adaptive systems studied in this paper attempt to offer demand-responsive services within the framework of traditional scheduled bus transportation: Users call to request service between two given points and, in so doing, induce detours in the vehicle routes; at the same time, though, a given set of compulsory stops is always served according to a predefined schedule, regardless of the current set of active requests. The model developed to select requests and determine the routing of the vehicle yields a difficult formulation but with a special structure that may be used to develop efficient algorithms. In this paper, we develop, test, and compare several solution strategies for the single line-single vehicle problem that belong to two general meta-heuristic classes, memory-enhanced greedy randomized multistart constructive procedures, and tabu search methods. Hybrid meta-heuristics combining the two methods are also analyzed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1287/ijoc.1030.0051
INFORMS Journal on Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
demand-adaptive system,vehicle yield,demand-responsive service,compulsory stop,active request,demand-responsive transit systems,current set,single line-single vehicle problem,vehicle route,difficult formulation,paper attempt,meta heuristics,grasp,tabu search,hybrids,public transport
Mathematical optimization,GRASP,Constructive,Public transport,Tabu search,Mathematics,Metaheuristic
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
1
1091-9856
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.64
5
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Teodor Gabriel Crainic12329137.89
Federico Malucelli237146.99
Maddalena Nonato310514.60
François Guertin450537.63