Research Article

Dispatching Design for Customized Bus of Hybrid Vehicles Based on Reservation Data

Table 1

Notation.

SymbolDefinition and description

Sets
The set of stations
The set of vehicle types
The set of passengers

Parameters
, Bus station, indexed as
Passenger, indexed as
Type of the vehicle , indexed as
Total number of vehicles
Capacity of the vehicle of type /person
Travel distance from station to station (/m)
Fixed cost of the vehicle of type (yuan·vehicle−1)
Unit distance cost of the vehicle of type (yuan/m)
The cost of waiting time (yuan/min)
The number of passengers getting on the vehicle of type at station
The number of passengers getting off the vehicle of type at station
The number of passengers getting on at station
The number of passengers getting off at station
Passenger flow volume in ground station each hour
Passenger flow volume in elevated station each hour
Passenger flow volume in ground station at peak hour
Passenger flow volume in elevated station at peak hour
Appointment deadline set by the app (h)
Arrival time of passenger at station (h)
Waiting time of passenger at station (min)
Appointment time interval set by APP (min)
Iteration time of computer (min)
Time for dispatching vehicles and drivers (min)

Decision variables
If a vehicle of type travels from station to station and otherwise
The number of vehicles of type dispatched at the station