Title
Vehicle Scheduling Based On Variable Trip Times With Expected On-Time Performance
Abstract
The vehicle scheduling problem (VSP) is concerned with determining the most efficient allocation of vehicles to carry out all the trips in a given timetable. The duration of each trip (called trip time) is normally assumed to be fixed. However, in practice, the trip times vary due to the variability of traffic, driving conditions, and passengers' behavior. It is therefore difficult to adhere to the compiled schedule. This paper proposes a new VSP model based on variable trip times. Instead of being a fixed value, the duration of a trip falls into a time range that can be easily set based on the schedulers' experience or the data collected by automatic vehicle location systems. Within this range, an expected trip time is provided according to the schedulers' expectation of on-time performance. This new model can reduce schedulers' pressure on setting fixed scheduled trip times. Moreover, computational results generated using CPLEX show that this model can increase the on-time performance of resulting schedules without increasing the fleet size.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1111/itor.12321
INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS IN OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
public transit, vehicle scheduling, variable trip times, on-time performance
Job shop scheduling,Scheduling (computing),Real-time computing,Public transport,Schedule,On-time performance,TRIPS architecture,Mathematics,Automatic vehicle location
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
1-2
0969-6016
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
15
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yindong Shen1414.19
Jia Xu229836.94
Xianyi Wu310.69