Fig 1.
Two bus route plans for an example of school district.
Table 1.
Parameters and decision variables for homogeneous fleet bus scheduling problem.
Table 2.
Parameters and decision variables for heterogeneous fleet school bus scheduling problem.
Table 3.
The school bus scheduling instances HOMO and HETERO.
Table 4.
CPLEX results for the homogeneous fleet instances.
Table 5.
CPLEX results for the heterogeneous fleet instances.
Table 6.
Heuristic results for the homogeneous fleet instances.
Table 7.
Heuristic results for the heterogeneous fleet instances.
Fig 2.
Objective difference between metaheuristic and CPLEX solutions for the heterogeneous fleet instances.
Table 8.
The school bus routing and scheduling instances RSRB and CSCB.
Table 9.
Results for the RSRB benchmark instances.
Table 10.
Results for the CSCB benchmark instances.
Table 11.
Comparison of our algorithm with existing algorithm.