Abstract: Focusing on the airport shuttle service based on multivehicles， the cooperative scheduling model taking the minimum total mileages driven as the objective is built， and a heuristic optimization algorithm is proposed to solve the model. The pickup points which need a vehicle to offer individual shuttle service， namely isolated points，are determined after basic routes are planned. Then the cooperative patterns between isolated points and basic routes， between remaining routes and basic routes cooperating with isolated points， as well as between final remaining routes are taken into account respectively. The vehicle scheduling scheme based on the cooperation is obtained. Numerical experiments show that the proposed cooperative model and optimization algorithm can effectively decrease the operation cost in the airport shuttle service.

Key words: airport shuttle service, passenger load factor, vehicle cooperation, cooperative scheduling model, optimization algorithm