… This justifies the need for Flex-Route Transit (FRT), which combines the flexibility of DRT …
In particular, we study similarities and differences between FRT and Vehicle Routing Problem, …

… of the flex-route transit in real time. A case study on real-life ITS-assisted flex-route transit [5, …
In this paper, we study the vehicle routing and scheduling problem of flex-route transit under …

… Any subsequence of clusters urn:x-wiley:09696016:media:itor12041:itor12041-math-0056
which can be visited by a feasible GVRP-flex route (total demand compatible with vehicle …

… With the advent of modular autonomous vehicles (MAVs), this paper presents a novel
operational design for flex-route transit services to reduce operation costs of vehicles and improve …

… Compared with complicated vehicle routing operation under flexroute policy, it is possible to
… under fixed-route policy. Also, simulations developed for fixed-route operating policy would …

… (first stage) and the vehicle routing problem (second stage). … Hence, we discuss only the
vehicle routing problem, in which … G = (N,A,T) to describe the vehicle routing network, where N …

… This research aims at exploring Flex-Route transit service to … are: assessing the practicality
of Flex-Route transit service in … The chapter concludes with a review of the vehicle routing …

… in constructing vehicle routing plans for flex-route transit services. Besides the speed limits
of different roadways, the type of traffic that the road handles should be considered to improve …

… The insertion algorithm constructs the vehicle routing plan by choosing the minimum … service
vehicle only if the pick-up and drop-off location are both feasible for the vehicle routing plan. …

… Specifically, to make a decision between assigning a trip to a flex-route vehicle or to a pure
demand-responsive vehicle, the scheduling and dispatching software for both services must …