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A Crew Scheduling Approach for Public Transit Enhanced with Aspects from Vehicle Scheduling

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Computer-aided Systems in Public Transport

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems ((LNE,volume 600))

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This paper presents a new approach for solving the crew scheduling problem in public transit. The approach is based on interaction with the corresponding vehicle scheduling problem. We use a model of the vehicle scheduling problem which is based on a time-space network formulation. An advantage of this procedure is that it produces a bundle of optimal vehicle schedules, implicitly given by the solution flow. In our approach, we give this degree of freedom to the crew scheduling phase, where a vehicle schedule is selected that is most consistent with the objectives of crew scheduling.

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  1. Decision Support & Operations Research Lab and International Graduate School for Dynamic Intelligent Systems, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, D-33100, Paderborn, Germany

    Vitali Gintner

  2. Decision Support & Operations Research Lab, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, D-33100, Paderborn, Germany

    Natalia Kliewer & Leena Suhl

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, 1209 E. Second Street, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0072, USA

    Mark Hickman

  2. Department of Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, 1127 E. James E. Rogers Way, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0020, USA

    Pitu Mirchandani

  3. Institute of Information Systems, Department of Business and Economics, University of Hamburg, Von-Melle-Park 5, 20146, Hamburg, Germany

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Gintner, V., Kliewer, N., Suhl, L. (2008). A Crew Scheduling Approach for Public Transit Enhanced with Aspects from Vehicle Scheduling. In: Hickman, M., Mirchandani, P., Voß, S. (eds) Computer-aided Systems in Public Transport. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 600. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73312-6_2

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