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The Trip Scheduling Problem

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  • Claudia Archetti

    (Department of Quantitative Methods, University of Brescia, 25122 Brescia, Italy)

  • Martin Savelsbergh

    (H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332)

Abstract

The hours of service (HOS) regulations of the department of transportation severely restrict the set of feasible driver schedules. So much so that establishing whether a sequence of full truckload transportation requests, each with a dispatch window at the origin, can feasibly be executed by a driver is no longer a matter of simple forward simulation. We consider this problem and prove that the feasibility of a driver schedule can be checked in polynomial time by providing an O ( n 3 ) algorithm for establishing whether a sequence of full truckload transportation requests, each with a dispatch window at the origin, can be executed by a driver.

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  • Claudia Archetti & Martin Savelsbergh, 2009. "The Trip Scheduling Problem," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 43(4), pages 417-431, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ortrsc:v:43:y:2009:i:4:p:417-431
    DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1090.0278
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