On a Fair Fare Rating an a Bus Line
On a Fair Fare Rating an a Bus Line

Summary/Abstract: Suppose we are given a long bus line with a single tariff. Some passengers travel along long distances while another ones along short trips. Such a single tariff is advantageous for the first mentioned passengers. However, a single tariff is inconvenient for short trip passengers. Babel, Keller, Hamacher and Schobel tried to solve this problem by dividing serviced area into zones in [1], [2] and [3]. Kohani presented similar attitude in [4]. Another way how to improve fairness is to introduce a double tariff – fare x for passengers traveling at most along k laps and fare y for passengers traveling along more than k laps. This paper shows how to determine optimal values k, x and y.

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