Computer-Aided Scheduling of Public Transport

Abstract

1: Vehicle and Crew Scheduling - Methodical Advances.- A New Model for the Mass Transit Crew Scheduling Problem.- A Global Method for Crew Planning in Railway Applications.- Efficient Timetabling and Vehicle Scheduling for Public Transport.- Rail Crew Scheduling and Rostering Optimization Algorithms.- Applying an Integrated Approach to Vehicle and Crew Scheduling in Practice.- A Network Flow Approach to Crew Scheduling Based on an Analogy to an Aircraft/Train Maintenance Routing Problem.- Tabu Search for Driver Scheduling.- 2: Vehicle and Crew Scheduling - Practical Issues.- Experiences with a Flexible Driver Scheduler.- Scheduling Train Crews: A Case Study for the Dutch Railways.- Evaluating a DSS for Operational Planning in Public Transport Systems: Ten Years of Experience with the GIST System.- Crew Scheduling for Netherlands Railways Destination: Customer.- Selecting and Implementing a Computer Aided Scheduling System for a Large Bus Company.- Days-off Scheduling in Public Transport Companies.- 3: Advanced Transit Service and Vehicle Routing.- Modeling Cost and Passenger Level of Service for Integrated Transit Service.- Adaptive Memory Programming for a Class of Demand Responsive Transit Systems.- A Cycle Based Optimization Model for the Cyclic Railway Timetabling Problem.- Minmax Vehicle Routing Problems: Application to School Transport in the Province of Burgos.- 4: Monitoring and Control.- An Approach Towards the Integration of Bus Priority, Traffic Adaptive Signal Control, and Bus Information/ Scheduling Systems.- An Optimal Integrated Real-time Disruption Control Model for Rail Transit Systems.- Design of Customer-oriented Dispatching Support for Railways.- Determining Traffic Delays through Simulation.- Optimization Approach to Support the Grouping and Scheduling of Air Traffic Control Sectors.- 5: Strategic Decision Problems.- New Revenue Management Strategies for Railway Network Providers.- Impacts of Deregulation on Planning Processes and Information Management Design in Public Transit.- Cost-benefit-analysis of Investments into Railway Networks with Periodically Timed Schedules.- Appendices.- Appendix 1: Referees.- Appendix 2: List of Presented Papers not Included in this Volume.- Appendix 3: Exhibitors and Sponsors.