Incorporating equity into the school bus scheduling problem

Banerjee, Dipayan; Smilowitz, Karen

doi:10.1016/j.tre.2019.08.006

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“…Similar problems are studied in Fügenschuh and Martin (2006), in Fügenschuh (2011) (set partitioning formulation), in Zeng et al (2018) and in Wang and Haghani (2020). Banerjee and Smilowitz (2019) also combine the route scheduling problem with SBA and incorporate additional considerations related to equity and efficiency. Equity is sought by seeking to minimize the maximum disutility associated with changing start times across all schools.…”

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The Dial-a-Ride Problem with School Bell Time Adjustment

Vercraene

Lehuédé

Monteiro

et al. 2023

Transportation Science

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In this paper, we study a paratransit application in which children are transported every day from their homes to their special schools or medical-social establishments. To optimize this transportation system, the establishments collaborate to propose a joint transportation plan. We propose a new algorithm to jointly build vehicle routes that visit several establishments and simultaneously set the establishments’ opening hours. This algorithm combines a large neighborhood search, the resolution of a route-based model, and the progressive shrinkage of the planning window. It is applied to a real case from the area of Lyon in France, including 34 schools and 575 heterogeneous users served by a heterogeneous fleet of reconfigurable vehicles. On average, we show that in addition to the 10% of saving that can be expected by sharing vehicle routes between schools, 7% of additional savings can be achieved by school bell adjustment. This cost saving also decreases average user ride times and the number of vehicles required, creating longer routes that are more attractive for driver services.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Dial-a-Ride Problem with School Bell Time Adjustment

Vercraene

Lehuédé

Monteiro

et al. 2023

Transportation Science

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“…Yet, doing so can have unintentional effects. For example, Banerjee and Smilowitz [10] find that simply minimizing busing costs leads to disparate impacts in the setting of individual school start times. Essentially, costs can be minimized by using fewer buses, but doing so means that some students must start extremely early or late in the morning.…”

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“Make no little plans”: Impactful research to solve the next generation of transportation problems

2020

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The transportation science research community has contributed to numerous practical and intellectual innovations and improvements over the last decades. Technological advancements have broadened and amplified the potential impacts of our field. At the same time, the world and its communities are facing greater and more serious challenges than ever before. In this paper, we call upon the transportation science research community to work on a research agenda that addresses some of the most important of these challenges. This agenda is guided by the sustainable development goals outlined by the United Nations and organized into three areas: (1) well‐being, (2) infrastructure, and, (3) natural environment. For each area, we identify current and future challenges as well as research directions to address those challenges.

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“…The school bus routing problem (SBRP) deals with the design and operation of the transportation service for students from and to schools in a cost-efficient manner (for operators), reliable (for schools), with good quality of service (for students), and safe (for everyone) ( Corberán et al, 2002 , Ellegood et al, 2020 , Kim et al, 2012 ). Quality of service is seen as a social measure that directly impacts the students, where the number of stoppages, travel times, walking distances, and other equity measures are considered ( Banerjee & Smilowitz, 2019 ).…”

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confidence: 99%