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In this paper we analyse a flexible real world-based model for designing school bus transit systems and note a number of parallels between this and other well-known combinatorial optimisation problems including the vehicle routing problem, the set covering problem, and one-dimensional bin packing. We then describe an iterated local search algorithm for this problem and demonstrate the sort of solutions that we can expect with different types of problem instance.
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In our case a value for x is selected randomly according to a binomial distribution \(X\sim B(|V'_1|, 3/|V'_1|)\).
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Lewis, R., Smith-Miles, K., Phillips, K. (2018). The School Bus Routing Problem: An Analysis and Algorithm. In: Brankovic, L., Ryan, J., Smyth, W. (eds) Combinatorial Algorithms. IWOCA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10765. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78825-8_24
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