Research Article

Dealing with the Empty Vehicle Movements in Personal Rapid Transit System with Batteries Constraints in a Dynamic Context

Table 4

Summary of the results of different strategies.

StrategyStatisticsEmpty movement%Effective movement%Mean waiting time (Min)

FIFOMean62.59937.4017
Minimum56.41432.9094
Maximum67.09143.58630
Standard deviation3.0223.0226

NNMean52.11747.8835
Minimum45.58840.0752
Maximum59.92554.41227
Standard deviation3.2603.2606

FNVSMean55.27044.7305
Minimum48.42340.2731
Maximum59.72751.57729
Standard deviation2.4832.4836

WGMean50.925449.07465
Minimum40.477642.46591
Maximum57.534159.522424
Standard deviation4.21064.21066