Optimizing schools' start time and bus routes.

ABSTRACT: Maintaining a fleet of buses to transport students to school is a major expense for school districts. To reduce costs by reusing buses between schools, many districts spread start times across the morning. However, assigning each school a time involves estimating the impact on transportation costs and reconciling additional competing objectives. Facing this intricate optimization problem, school districts must resort to ad hoc approaches, which can be expensive, inequitable, and even detrimental to student health. For example, there is medical evidence that early high school starts are impacting the development of an entire generation of students and constitute a major public health crisis. We present an optimization model for the school time selection problem (STSP), which relies on a sch

SUBMITTER: Bertsimas D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6442556 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature