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Vehicle and Crew Scheduling: Solving Large Real-World Instances with an Integrated Approach

In: Computer-aided Systems in Public Transport

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  • Sebastiaan W. Groot

    (ORTEC bv)

  • Dennis Huisman

    (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Abstract

In this paper we discuss several methods to solve large real-world instances of the vehicle and crew scheduling problem. Although there has been an increased attention to integrated approaches for solving such problems in the literature, currently only small or medium-sized instances can be solved by such approaches. Therefore, large instances should be split into several smaller ones, which can be solved by an integrated approach, or the sequential approach, i.e., first vehicle scheduling and afterwards crew scheduling, is applied. In this paper we compare both approaches, where we consider different ways of splitting an instance varying from very simple rules to more sophisticated ones. Those ways are extensively tested by computational experiments on real-world data provided by the largest Dutch bus company.

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  • Sebastiaan W. Groot & Dennis Huisman, 2008. "Vehicle and Crew Scheduling: Solving Large Real-World Instances with an Integrated Approach," Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, in: Mark Hickman & Pitu Mirchandani & Stefan Voß (ed.), Computer-aided Systems in Public Transport, pages 43-56, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnechp:978-3-540-73312-6_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73312-6_3
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    Cited by:

    1. Bach, L. & Dollevoet, T.A.B. & Huisman, D., 2014. "Integrating Timetabling and Crew," Econometric Institute Research Papers EI 2014-03, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Econometric Institute.
    2. Lukas Bach & Twan Dollevoet & Dennis Huisman, 2016. "Integrating Timetabling and Crew Scheduling at a Freight Railway Operator," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 50(3), pages 878-891, August.
    3. Heil, Julia & Hoffmann, Kirsten & Buscher, Udo, 2020. "Railway crew scheduling: Models, methods and applications," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 283(2), pages 405-425.

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