A Fuzzy Approach for Organizational Transportation Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals: Health Promotion, Inequality Reduction, and Responsible Consumption

Abstract

In 2015 the United Nations Organization approved the Agenda for Sustainable Development. This agenda defines the Sustainable Development Goals, including Good Health and Well-being, Reduced Inequalities, and Responsible Consumption and Production. The present research introduces a new model for the School Bus Routing Problem (SBRP) to have a direct impact on the three mentioned objectives. The proposed model focuses on fuzzy modeling of maximum students’ walking distance and bus capacity restrictions. Likewise, a new characteristic in the students that imply the differentiation in the distance to walk is included. Experimental results are obtained by applying a parametric linear approach to solve the fuzzy model in conjunction with metaheuristics. The analyzed results allow us to affirm that cost-saving can be achieved at the expense of slightly increasing the student's walking distance and a little overload of the bus capacity. Also, the results reveal that this saving can be obtained by reducing students’ inequalities.