An advanced public transportation system called the local initiative for neighborhood circulation (LINC) is proposed and the realization of its usage is investigated. LINC effectiveness and efficiency comes from its utilization of a transit-station-oriented system with elimination of present bus stops. LINC has three levels of services. Level 1 is the regional trunk line service with high-speed and high-capacity service provided by the regional transit authority. Level 2 is the intercommunity express bus service with frequent and reliable service provided by the metro transit system. Level 3 could have many forms to serve within the community and to/from level 1 or level 2 transit stations. Our study is limited to the dial-a-ride service, which operates door-to-door service as a public taxi, provided by small buses and/or vans. This paper will address the optimization problem of the dial-a-ride service. A genetic algorithm scheme is applied to its optimization and proper solutions are obtained as a result.
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Uchimura et al. (2002) studied this question.