A personalized walking bus service requiring optimized route decisions: A real case

Tresoldi, Emanuele; Malucelli, Federico; Nonato, Maddalena

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2019.07.046

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“…Egli et al (2020)'s study on children's perspectives of walking routes to school in New Zealand has found that they are aware of both time and distance. All the previous studies in optimisation of WSB routes have considered this objective (Bolkhanian & Reyers, 2019; Tanaka et al, 2016; Tresoldi et al, 2021), that is, to minimise walking time .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The focus is, therefore, again on time using distance as a proxy variable. Time is the only factor considered in both Bolkhanian and Reyers (2019) and Tresoldi et al (2021), which is not sufficient to help realise all the potential benefits WSB might bring. Children love the experience of walking when it is enjoyable and they never complain about walking longer distances even though the WSB route is normally longer than the direct one (Heelan et al, 2008).…”

Section: Research Gaps In Walking-to-school Route Planning Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this case, the 'driver' of the WSB will start from a 'Bus Stop' at the start of a route, walking from one stop to another to pick up children from each stop, with the final stop at the school. Both Bolkhanian and Reyers (2019) and Tresoldi et al (2021) have looked at the first type, that is, door-to-door then to school. This paper will be the first to look at the optimisation for the second type, with WSB routes operating bus-stop-to-bus-stop with the final stop at the school.…”

Section: Wsb With 'Bus Stops'mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Each route will serve a specific cluster and the optimisation includes clustering as well as route optimisation formulated as a vehicle routing problem. Tresoldi et al (2021) developed a two‐stage process to optimise the design of WSB lines to pick up children from their home and take them to school. They applied their model to a case study in Italy.…”

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Walking school bus line routing for efficiency, health and walkability: A multi‐objective optimisation approach

Wang

Kang

et al. 2023

Multi Criteria Decision Anal

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Walking School Bus (WSB) has been recognised as an innovative solution to promote walking to school, bringing a wide spectrum of benefits, including: health benefits from the physical exercise, social skills and traffic reduction. To facilitate the success of WSB, one vital element is its route planning, which directly affects the catchment for the service and the realisation of all the potential benefits. Previously, time has been the only factor that has been considered in WSB routing problems. Other important factors including air quality, safety and comfort will also be considered in this paper. Air quality along a WSB route is important to help realise the health benefits of walking. Traffic safety has been the biggest barrier to walking to school and must be addressed in planning a WSB route. Ensuring children have an enjoyable and comfortable experience is vital for the sustainability and success of WSB. A walking network is introduced to enable modelling pedestrian movements in detail, including walking movements on different sides of the road and crossing movements. This approach enables detailed route-based analysis to assess the localised effect of air quality on pollutant dose. We define walkability as a measure of children's needs in safety and comfort, which can also be assessed in detail on each route. We propose a multi-objective optimisation model to generate efficient WSB routes with three objectives representing the potential benefits of WSB: (1) to minimise time; (2) to minimise pollutant dose; and (3) to maximise walkability. We apply our model to a selected school in Bradford in the UK, generating three WSB lines following efficient routes. These lines go through a predetermined sequence of 'WSB Stops', with the final stop as the school. All children within the catchment area will be able to join a WSB within 1-2 min walk from their home to the nearest stop. Our multi-objective WSB route planning model is highly transferable to any selected school in any WSB targeted area. Planners will be able to select a combination of WSB lines to offer, based on the requirement of coverage area and resource availability.

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