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A Case Study: School Bus Routing

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We now turn our attention to a case study in transportation logistics. We highlight particular issues that arise when implementing an optimization algorithm in a real-life routing situation. The case concerns the routing and scheduling of school buses in the five boroughs of New York City.

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

    David Simchi-Levi

  2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Xin Chen

  3. Pine River Capital Management, New York, NY, USA

    Julien Bramel

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Simchi-Levi, D., Chen, X., Bramel, J. (2014). A Case Study: School Bus Routing. In: The Logic of Logistics. Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9149-1_21

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