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Reading assignments for specific lectures (L) and recitations (R) are listed below. Additional suggested readings are also provided.

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L1Course Overview and Roadmap, Carrier Systems Overview
L2Linear Programming OverviewGrier, Nathaniel. "Formulating a Mathematical Program: An Overview." 2001. (Cambridge, MA: 1.224 Carrier Systems Tutorial, MIT). (PDF)
R1Linear Programming, Software
L3Solving Linear Programming Problems
L4Integer Programming
R2Integer Programming
L5Networks
R3Networks
L6Part 1: Direct Transportation
L7Part 1: Transportation and Procurement
R4Direct Transportation/ Transportation and Procurement
L8Part 2: Transit Vehicle SchedulingBlais, J. Y., J. Lamont, and J. M. Rousseau. "The HASTUS Vehicle and Manpower Scheduling System at the Societe de transport de la Communaute urbaine de Montreal." Interfaces 20, no. 1 (1990): 26-42.

Odoni, A. R., J. -M. Rousseau, and N. H. M. Wilson. "Models in Urban and Air Transportation." Chapter 5 in Operations Research and the Public Sector, Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science. Vol. 6. Edited by S. M. Pollock, M. H. Rothkopf, and A. Barnett. 1994, pp. 129-150.

Shen, S. "Vehicle and Crew Scheduling." 2000. (Cambridge, MA: 1.224 Carrier Systems Case Study, MIT).
L9Part 2: Transit Crew Scheduling
L10Part 3: Airline Routing and Crew SchedulingBarnhart, C., A. M. Cohn, E. L. Johnson, D. Klabjan, G. L. Nemhauser, and P. H. Vance. "Airline Crew Scheduling." In Handbook of Transportation Science. 2nd ed. Edited by Randolph W. Hall. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, November 2001.

Cohn, A. "Making the Trade-off Between Optimality and Tractability When Solving Large Transportation Models: A Case Study on the Airline Industry." 2000. (Cambridge, MA: 1.224 Carrier Systems Case Study, MIT). (PDF)
R5Transit Vehicle and Crew Scheduling
L11Part 3: Airline Routing and Crew Scheduling (cont.)
L12Real-time Operations Control
L13Synthesis and Review

Additional References

Transit Crew Scheduling (PDF)


Supplemental Textbooks

Bradley, S. P., A. C. Hax, and T. L. Magnanti. Applied Mathematical Programming. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1977.

Winston, W. L. Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1994.


 








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