Month: August 2025

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First year students, welcome! Returning students, welcome back! Looking forward to a stupendous 2025-26!

With colleagues, he recently published “A Solution To The Single-School School Bus Routing Problem Considering Accessibility And Economy” in “Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.”

Abstract: “The school bus routing problem (SBRP) involves the optimal placement of bus stops and design of bus routes. A well-designed SBRP strategy can reduce the operating costs of the school bus system, improve accessibility, and ensure timely arrival for teachers and students. This paper integrates the heuristic Dijkstra algorithm with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to propose a three-stage heuristic GIS optimization method (THGO) for solving the Single-School Multi-Route School Bus Routing Problem (SSMR-SBRP).”

See: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S259019822500185X

The Indian Independence Bill, which created the independent nations of India and Pakistan from the former Mogul Empire, comes into force Aug. 15, 1947. This ended 200 years of British rule. Sadly, in the northern province of Punjab, which was sharply divided between Hindu-dominated India and Muslim-dominated Pakistan, hundreds of people were killed in the first few days after independence.

From https://tinyurl.com/5ytr96ue

Justices Used To Be On Dollar Bills: In the summer of 1969, America stopped distributing $10,000, $5,000, $1,000, and $500 bills. If you still had a $10,000 bill, however, you would have seen a portrait of Lincoln’s Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Salmon P. Chase. If you had a $500 bill, you would have seen a photo of John Marshall, one of the court’s most notable Chief Justices.