Abstract
This paper presents a new conception model of school transportation supply-demand ratio (STSDR) in order to define the number of school buses needed in a limited area and to describe the conditions of school transport system. For this purpose, a mathematical equation was elaborated to simulate the real system based on the school transport conditions and on the estimated results of STSDR from 15 zones of Cuenca city in Ecuador. The data used in our model was collected from several diverse sources (i.e. administrative data and survey data). The estimated results have shown that our equation has described efficiently the school transport system by reaching an accuracy of 96%. Therefore, our model is suitable for statistical estimation given adequate data and will be useful in school transport planning policy. Given that, it is a support model for making decisions which seek efficiency in supply and demand balance.
Highlights
School transportation is the process of generating a set of school buses that efficiently transports students to and from their schools safely and on time
This paper presents a new conception model of school transportation supply-demand ratio (STSDR) in order to define the number of school buses needed in a limited area and to describe the conditions of school transport system
The purpose of this paper is to propose a new conception model of school transportation supply-demand ratio (STSDR) in order to describe the conditions of school transport system and to support theoretical and mathematical basis for transport policy-making
Summary
School transportation is the process of generating a set of school buses that efficiently transports students to and from their schools safely and on time. For example in [7], authors have described and evaluated a practical computer-based method for translating data concerning 1) the location of each school 2) the location of each student, 3) the time, and 4) the available buses. [9] has developed an estimation model of urban transportation supply-demand ratio (TSDR) to quantitatively describe the conditions of an urban transport system and to support a theoretical basis for transport policy-making. The purpose of this paper is to propose a new conception model of school transportation supply-demand ratio (STSDR) in order to describe the conditions of school transport system and to support theoretical and mathematical basis for transport policy-making.
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