On the Dispatching Problem

Di Miele, Federico and Gallo, Giorgio (2000) On the Dispatching Problem. Technical Report del Dipartimento di Informatica . Università di Pisa, Pisa, IT.

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Abstract

Most often, space is the scarce resource in Bus Depots located in congested urban areas: vehicles arriving at the end of their trips are packed together in a rather small space. That implies that, when a vehicle has to leave to start a new trip, most often, other vehicles have to be moved to clear the way. Here a new model, based on "Min Non Crossing Matching" and "Generalized Assignment", is presented to allocate parking spaces to vehicles in a Depot in order to minimize the shunting cost. The results obtained applying our approach to a real life case are discussed.

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