Abstract In Brazil, bus services, which have to meet extraordinary levels of demand and traffic congestion, are generally planned by a city transport authority, and franchised out to several private companies for operation. The nature of the scheduling problem is different from most of those described at previous workshops, because vehicle and driver schedules are developed simultaneously, but on a line by line basis. The present paper describes work carried out on representative Brazilian city schedules using enhancements of the Leeds scheduling systems reported at previous workshops. Although the precise nature of the problem varies among the cities studied, the approaches adopted in this research are similar. The Leeds scheduling software, adapted for the Brazilian situation, is used in a novel way to produce efficient combined bus and driver schedules, with buses being switched between lines to improve efficiency. Already savings have been indicated. The paper includes a detailed exposition of the processes used in one of the cities, serving to emphasize the practical problems which must be addressed in any implementation.


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    Title :

    Integrated Scheduling of Buses and Drivers


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    Publication date :

    1999-01-01


    Size :

    22 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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