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This article presents the application of evolutionary algorithms to solve the bus synchronization problem. The problem model includes extended synchronization points, accounting for every pair of bus stops in a city, and the transfer demands for each pair of lines on each pair of bus stops. A specific evolutionary algorithm is proposed to efficiently solve the problem and results are compared with intuitive algorithms and also with the current planning of the transportation system on real scenarios from the city of Montevideo, Uruguay. Experimental results indicate that the proposed evolutionary algorithm is able to improve in up to 13.33% the synchronizations with respect to the current planning and systematically outperforms other baseline methods.
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Nesmachnow, S., Muraña, J., Goñi, G., Massobrio, R., Tchernykh, A. (2020). Evolutionary Approach for Bus Synchronization. In: Crespo-Mariño, J., Meneses-Rojas, E. (eds) High Performance Computing. CARLA 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1087. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41005-6_22
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