| Article ID: | iaor20022316 |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Volume: | 20 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 83 |
| End Page Number: | 99 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2000 |
| Journal: | Pesquisa Operacional |
| Authors: | Carnieri C., Steiner M.T.A., Zamboni L.V.S., Costa D.M.B., Silva A.L. |
| Keywords: | transportation: road |
This paper deals with the vehicle routing problem for school children transportation and describes some Operations Research techniques that can be used to solve it. The problem considers, besides the distances to be traveled by m vehicles, the vehicle availabilities and capacities and the demands in each of the n points. The implementation to a real problem is studied and the results are analysed.