An efficient metaheuristic for the school bus routing problem

Existing literature on routing of school buses has focused mainly on building intricate models that attempt to capture as many real-life constraints and objectives as possible. Our work is more concerned with the bus route generation and the bus stop selection. The school bus routing problem (SBRP) is defined as a variant of the vehicle routing problem in which three simultaneous decisions have to be made : (1) determine the set of stops to...