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The School Bus Problem on Trees

Bock, Adrian Aloysius  
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Grant, Elyot
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Könemann, Jochen
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2012
Algorithmica

The School Bus Problem is an NP-hard vehicle routing problem in which the goal is to route buses that transport children to a school such that for each child, the distance travelled on the bus does not exceed the shortest distance from the child's home to the school by more than a given regret threshold. Subject to this constraint and bus capacity limit, the goal is to minimize the number of buses required. In this paper, we give a polynomial time 4-approximation algorithm when the children and school are located at vertices of a fixed tree. As a byproduct of our analysis, we show that the integrality gap of the natural set-cover formulation for this problem is also bounded by 4. We also present a constant factor approximation for the variant where we have a fixed number of buses to use, and the goal is to minimize the maximum regret.

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DOI
10.1007/s00453-012-9711-x
Web of Science ID

WOS:000321288100004

Author(s)
Bock, Adrian Aloysius  
Grant, Elyot
Könemann, Jochen
Sanità, Laura  
Date Issued

2012

Publisher

Springer US

Published in
Algorithmica
Volume

67

Issue

1

Start page

49

End page

64

Subjects

Vehicle routing

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Approximation algorithm

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Set-cover formulation

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