A metaheuristic for the rural school bus routing problem with bell adjustment
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Highlights：
• Bell adjusted approach for school bus routing with a great social and economic appeal.
• Experiments using real instances from dozens of cities.
• Three strategies based on meta-heuristics are devised to address the problem.
• Different transportation approaches are analyzed: with multi-load and with bell adjustment.
• The approach with bell adjustment can substantially reduce the solutions’ cost.
摘要
•Bell adjusted approach for school bus routing with a great social and economic appeal.•Experiments using real instances from dozens of cities.•Three strategies based on meta-heuristics are devised to address the problem.•Different transportation approaches are analyzed: with multi-load and with bell adjustment.•The approach with bell adjustment can substantially reduce the solutions’ cost.
论文关键词：Combinatorial optimization,Metaheuristics,School bus routing problem,Rural bus routing,Bell adjustment,Multi-loading
论文评审过程：Received 12 March 2020, Revised 9 January 2021, Accepted 26 March 2021, Available online 24 April 2021, Version of Record 8 May 2021.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115086
