Optimizing school bus routes is a lot more complicated than one might think. The International School of Geneva handed their problem over to a group of mathematicians. "Our student population is increasing rapidly," observes Michel Chinal, Director General of the International School of Geneva. And the rising number of parents picking up and dropping off their children is creating traffic problems in the village of Founex, just outside Geneva. The bus service offered by the school is too slow. "Parents often say that they would like to sign their children up, but the bus ride is too long." The buses pick up students in an area bounded by Morges, Geneva and neighboring France. So how can they improve the routes of 11 different buses carrying a total of 283 students to and from school? That's the problem that was given to a research group of mathematicians at EPFL.
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