Publisher Summary This chapter reviews a survey on the operations research literature
applied to the domain of public transit, with a focus on recent contributions. It highlights a …

The vehicle scheduling problem, arising in public transport bus companies, addresses the
task of assigning buses to cover a given set of timetabled trips with consideration of practical …

This book examines the main components affecting the viability of a public-transport service
from both the passenger and agency perspectives, and offers solutions to well-known …

This paper presents new models for multiple depot vehicle scheduling problem (MDVS) and
multiple depot vehicle scheduling problem with route time constraints (MDVSRTC). The …

The public-transport (transit) operation planning process commonly includes four basic
activities, usually performed in sequence:(1) network route design,(2) timetable …

We consider the multiple-depot multiple-vehicle-type scheduling problem (MDVSP) which
arises in public transport bus companies and aims to assign buses to cover a given set of …

The multiple depot vehicle scheduling problem (MDVSP) with a single vehicle type
considers the assignment of timetabled trips to homogeneous vehicles that are stationed at …

This paper presents a solution approach to the dynamic vehicle scheduling problem. This
approach consists of solving a sequence of optimization problems, where we take into …

A transit operational planning process includes four basic components performed usually in
sequence:(1) network route design;(2) setting timetables;(3) scheduling vehicles to trips; and …

Scheduling plays an important role in many different service industries. In this paper we
provide an overview of some of the more important scheduling problems that appear in the …