Abstract
In the last decade we have experienced fast-growing traffic congestion and spreading built-up urban areas without adequate transportation systems. We are searching for a new public transit system with dial-a-ride service to maintain our quality of life. Our concept for a public transit management system has three stages of service; the dial-a-ride services operate at the lowest, local-level services, as public taxi or jitney services. This paper will investigate and define how dial-a-ride service will optimize many customers' requests with a short response time. Our previous study showed how one dial-a-ride service vehicle could operate in a service zone. However, realistically there are many more customers in a service zone than one dial-a-ride service vehicle can handle. Therefore, in this paper, we study how multiple dial-a-ride service vehicles can operate in one service zone and apply a genetic algorithm to demonstrate the optimization of their operations and services. © 1999 Scripta Technica, Electron Comm Jpn Pt 3, 82(7): 30–38, 1999
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