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Optimizing Schedules for School Bus Routing Problem: the Case of Dar Es Salaam Schools

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dc.creator Mushi, Allen R.
dc.creator Ngonyani, B.
dc.creator Mujuni, E.
dc.date 2016-03-16T15:05:52Z
dc.date 2016-03-16T15:05:52Z
dc.date 2014
dc.date.accessioned 2018-04-18T11:50:12Z
dc.date.available 2018-04-18T11:50:12Z
dc.identifier Mushi, A.R., Mujuni, E. and Ngonyani, B., 2015. Optimizing Schedules for School Bus Routing Problem: the case of Dar Es Salaam Schools. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science, 6(1).
dc.identifier 0976-5697
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1033
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/10626
dc.description Full text available at http://search.proquest.com/openview/21abd454aa316a3c812d1fc53f0b9c04/1?pq-origsite=gscholar
dc.description The School Bus Routing Problem (SBRP) deals with transportation of students to and from their schools. Given a set of fleet of buses of a school, a set of bus stops, the time matrix and the number of students at each stop, the task is to determine the schedule of buses that minimizes amount of time students spend in the buses on the way to and from school. The school bus routing problem is a special case of the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) and is known to be NP-hard. This NP-hardness implies that it is very unlikely that the problem can be solved in polynomial time. The common methods used to solve NP-hard problems are heuristic algorithms which gives quick and good solutions without guarantee that the solution obtained is optimal. In this paper a Tabu search based heuristic for SBRP is developed. The algorithm has been implemented using Borland C++ 4.5 programming language and tested using data from Tusiime Nursery and Primary School in Dar es salaam, Tanzania. The proposed implementation results in reduction of students’ travelling time by 19.24%.
dc.language en
dc.publisher International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science
dc.subject Optimizing Schedules
dc.subject School Bus
dc.subject Routing Problem
dc.subject Dar Es Salaam Schools
dc.title Optimizing Schedules for School Bus Routing Problem: the Case of Dar Es Salaam Schools
dc.type Journal Article


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