Integrated Optimization in Public Transport Planning
Integrated Optimization in Public Transport Planning

Author: Philine Schiewe

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-06-23

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 3030462706

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This book is one of the first to include an extensive discussion of integrated public transport planning. In times of growing urban populations and increasing environmental awareness, the importance of optimizing public transport systems is ever-developing. Three different aspects are presented: line planning, timetabling, and vehicle scheduling. Classically, challenges concerning these three aspects of planning are solved sequentially. Due to their high interdependence, the author presents a clear and detailed analysis of innovative, integrated models with accompanied numerical experiments performed to assess, and often support, the benefits of integration. The book will appeal to a wide readership ranging from graduate students to researchers.

Integration of Information and Optimization Models for Routing in City Logistics
Integration of Information and Optimization Models for Routing in City Logistics

Author: Jan Ehmke

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-05-01

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1461436281

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​As urban congestion continues to be an ever increasing problem, routing in these settings has become an important area of operations research. This monograph provides cutting-edge research, utilizing the recent advances in technology, to quantify the value of dynamic, time-dependent information for advanced vehicle routing in city logistics. The methodology of traffic data collection is enhanced by GPS based data collection, resulting in a comprehensive number of travel time records. Data Mining is also applied to derive dynamic information models as required by time-dependent optimization. Finally, well-known approaches of vehicle routing are adapted in order to handle dynamic information models. This book interweaves the usually distinct areas of traffic data collection, information retrieval and time-dependent optimization by an integrated methodological approach, which refers to synergies of Data Mining and Operations Research techniques by example of city logistics applications. These procedures will help improve the reliability of logistics services in congested urban areas.​

Integrated Algorithms for Cost-optimal Public Transport Planning
Integrated Algorithms for Cost-optimal Public Transport Planning

Author: Alexander Schiewe

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Since the demand for passenger transport is ever increasing, public transport planning is a topic of ongoing research. While single problem stages like line planning, timetabling or vehicle scheduling are already extensively researched, integrated planning, i.e., planning not just one but multiple problem stages simultaneously, becomes more important, since integration allows to utilize additional optimization potential that is not realizable in sequential planning. This thesis focuses especially on cost-optimal planning, since a cost-efficient system allows for a more sustainable service f...

Integrating Routing Decisions in Public Transportation Problems
Integrating Routing Decisions in Public Transportation Problems

Author: Marie E. Schmidt

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2014-01-02

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1461495660

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This book treats three planning problems arising in public railway transportation planning: line planning, timetabling, and delay management, with the objective to minimize passengers’ travel time. While many optimization approaches simplify these problems by assuming that passengers’ route choice is independent of the solution, this book focuses on models which take into account that passengers will adapt their travel route to the implemented planning solution. That is, a planning solution and passengers’ routes are determined and evaluated simultaneously. This work is technically deep, with insightful finding regarding complexity and algorithmic approaches to public transportation problems with integrated passenger routing. It is intended for researchers in the fields of mathematics, computer science, or operations research, working in the field of public transportation from an optimization standpoint. It is also ideal for students who want to gain intuition and experience in doing complexity proofs and designing polynomial-time algorithms for network problems. The book models line planning, timetabling and delay management as combined design and routing problems on networks. In a complexity analysis, the border between NP-hard and polynomially solvable problems is illustrated. Based on that, the insights gained are used to develop solution approaches for the considered problems. Besides integer programming formulations, a heuristic method iterating planning and routing step is proposed to solve the problems.

A View of Operations Research Applications in Italy, 2018
A View of Operations Research Applications in Italy, 2018

Author: Mauro Dell'Amico

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-10

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 3030258424

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This book presents expert descriptions of the successful application of operations research in both the private and the public sector, including in logistics, transportation, product design, production planning and scheduling, and areas of social interest. Each chapter is based on fruitful collaboration between researchers and companies, and company representatives are among the co-authors. The book derives from a 2017 call by the Italian Operations Research Society (AIRO) for information from members on their activities in promoting the use of quantitative techniques, and in particular operations research techniques, in society and industry. A booklet based on this call was issued for the annual AIRO conference, but it was felt that some of the content was of such interest that it deserved wider dissemination in more detailed form. This book is the outcome. It equips practitioners with solutions to real-life decision problems, offers researchers examples of the practical application of operations research methods, and provides Master’s and PhD students with suggestions for research development in various fields.