Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
6th International Scientific Research Congress, Şanlıurfa, Türkiye, 1 - 03 Kasım 2019, cilt.1, sa.1, ss.159-165
Majority
of public transportation services are provided by government in developed
countries. However, there are also private public transportation services which
are autonomously directed. Although there are certain rules and regulations
directed by the government, these companies and their actions are on their own
responsibility. Minibus transportation service is provided by private craft in
Turkey. In this study, historical background of the minibus transportation and
its current operational process is investigated. Since each vehicle in the
system represents a private craftsman, the operational process is challenging.
It requires distribution of incomes equally. Due to uncertainty of incomes,
there is not a possibility to create a cash pooling system. In Turkey, there
are many different Minibus federations. Each federation represents a geographic
region in which they carry passengers. The network might be very small or very
large, depending upon the number of the terminals in the network. Due to
variances in the transportation demands the vehicles do not run on the same
route all the time. The demand defines the income levels for each route in the
network and some income levels are relatively higher than the others.
Therefore, it creates a scheduling problem. Before the implementation of the
proposed dynamic scheduling, the vehicles were being distributed to the routes
of network manually. This was causing a big problem because the people who held
the responsibility to create the schedules every week were able to check the
schedules of at most 4 or 5 weeks manually. The distribution of vehicles means
the distribution of incomes in the network. Hence, in order to be fairer in
distribution a computer based dynamic scheduling model is proposed and
implemented for a pilot federation. The model reduced the complaints of
craftsman about the schedules and provided equality in sharing the incomes of
the network.