Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1121374 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2012 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

The realization of innovative transport services, require increasingly greater flexibility and inexpensiveness of the service. In many cases the solution is to realize a demand responsive transportation system, in which there are two main goals: minimize costs and maximize flexibility. In this work, we address a Demand Responsive Transport System capable of managing incoming transport demand using a solution based on an insertion heuristics to solve an On-Line dynamic DaRP instance. The solutions provided by the heuristics are simulated dynamically in a discrete events environment in which it is possible to reproduce the movement of the vehicles, the passengers’ arrival to the stops, the delays due to the traffic congestion and possible anomalies in the behavior of the passengers. Finally, at the end of the simulation, a set of performance indicators summarize the solution planned by the heuristics.

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