Programação de ônibus interurbano utilizando a técnica de programação linear inteira

Abstract

Road transport is one of the most used modes for passenger transport mainly due to its affordability, in the national and global context. Organizations seek for a better methods and systems to meet the satisfaction of its customers, offering quality and reliable services. This research aimed to propose a vehicle scheduling model to minimize buses, avoiding the transmission system imbalance. The model tried to cover the restrictions inherent about the vehicle flow on bus stations to cover all travel in a given timetable, allocating only one vehicle for each trip and using it for other trips when it is possible, given the objective function. The model was applied to a passenger transportation company with four cities involved and 105 trips in a time of 24 hours. The variables and constraints were identified from semi-structured interviews and visits at organization, identifying the tours to be met by two bus models: articulated and metropolitan. In this context, two different models were fitted to meet the travel , and analyzed separately. The results defined a required total of twelve metropolitan buses and four articulated buses to meet the company and timetable requirements and all constraints were satisfied, detecting the need of perform six deadheading trips (without passengers) to meet the need for demand bus for each table in the daily trips. With the results, a comparison was made between the old programming system adopted by the organization to fulfill the timetable, identifying the reduction of a metropolitan bus, while fulfilling the constraint of autonomy that each bus can travel 400 kilometers. Some improvements were identified by observing the resulting route network, being discussed at the end of the research and guiding for a new works in the future.