A novel scheduling method for airport shuttle bus based on simultaneous pickup and delivery services

For large and medium-sized airports, the service of special vehicles such as shuttle bus cannot be replaced by other, which is very needed. However, how to schedule those vehicles quickly and cost effectively is a challenge faced by airports. To solve above issues, in this paper, combined with the characteristics of strong schedulable of shuttle bus, a multi-constraint simultaneous pickup and delivery scheduling model and method are established, the brainstorm algorithm is used to solve the example of Beijing Capital Airport. The research results show that the method mentioned in this paper can greatly reduce the service cost and make a significant contribution to reducing the flight delay, also contribute to realize reasonable allocate and schedule the shuttle bus.