Smart Bus Transportation System for Fast Arrival Time to the Girls Campus at Taif University

摘要

Many universities in Saudi Arabia suffer from the difficulties to offer fast, smart and comfortable transportation systems for their girls students in order facilitate their arrival to the girls campus on time. Therefore, in this paper, an efficient student bus transportation system is proposed based on student feedback and minimum path length calculation. This system optimizes the overall path length and minimizes the delay time where the sequence of picked up students are chosen to minimize the overall path length. Also the student feedback will be an important input to optimize the new path length when the student is absent. The reduced path length and time delay will be reflected on energy and resources conservation as well as reduction in pollution and traffic densities. Simulation results show that to collect and drop 5 students in a medium sized city such as Taif, a saving in the path length of 13 km can be achieved by proper selection of the path. Also if one student is absent, the saving in the path length can be improved to 17.6 km using the proposed student-bus information system.