Computing strong lower and upper bounds for the integrated multiple-depot vehicle and crew scheduling problem with branch-and-price

Markó Horváth and Tamás Kis ()
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Markó Horváth: Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Tamás Kis: Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Central European Journal of Operations Research, 2019, vol. 27, issue 1, No 3, 39-67

Abstract: Abstract In the problem of the title, vehicle and crew schedules are to be determined simultaneously in order to satisfy a given set of trips over time. The vehicles and the crew are assigned to depots, and a number of rules have to be observed in the course of constructing feasible schedules. The main contribution of the paper is a novel mathematical programming formulation which combines ideas from known models, and an exact solution procedure based on branch-and-price. The method is tested on benchmark instances from the literature and it provides suboptimal schedules using limited computational resources.

Keywords: Vehicle and crew scheduling; Branch-and-price; Exact methods; Integer programming (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s10100-017-0489-4

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