A case study of reducing the total wasted time for the bus movement of Public Transportation Authority in Cairo (CTA)

Abstract

The goal of the transportation model is to improve the time or cost of transportation from the source to the destination. This paper aims to study the scheduling of the movement of transportation busses for the Public Transport Authority in Cairo, Egypt in the morning from the garages to the departure stations to reduce the time of the transportation trip and thus reduce the cost of the transportation trip. All the necessary data were collected manually through the busses commuting schedules datasheets in the morning for 30 days and preparation of the transportation model and calculation for minimizing the transportation time have been done using LINGO. The results of this studying reveal that the total waste time of the busses trips can be reduced from 7685 minutes to 5677 minutes by redistribution of the busses trip, which represents about 26 % of the actual times. and saves about 20% of the amount of fuel consumed per day.