A guided genetic algorithm for solving the long-term car pooling problem

Abstract

Rising vehicle numbers and increased use of private cars have caused significant traffic congestion, noise and energy waste. Public transport cannot always be set up in the non-urban areas. Car pooling, which is based on the idea that sets of car owners having the same travel destination share their vehicles has emerged to be a viable possibility for reducing private car usage around the world. In this paper, we present a guided genetic algorithm (GGA) for long-term car pooling problem. Computational results are given to show that this approach is competitive with some of the most powerful heuristics.