Network Design and Transportation Planning: Models and Algorithms

Network Design in Transportation and Logistics: Models and Algorithms

Network design problems in transportation and logistics are both complex and largescale—often containing millions, or even billions, of decision variables and tens of thousands of constraints. Finding optimal or near-optimal solutions to large-scale network design problems is challenging, if not impossible. To address this issue, we extend and bring together in a unified setting two complementa...

Models and algorithms for network design problems

Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to warmly thank my advisors Bernard Fortz, Martine Labbé and François Louveaux for supervising my thesis. The three of you have shown me how research can be both productive and recreational. I rst came to see Martine because I was interested in the real-life applications of mathematics. Her warm welcome and sensible arguments easily convinced me to st...

Algorithms and Models for Network Analysis and Design

Transportation Network Design

This document discusses the aspects of network design.First a brief introduction of network design will be given.Then various types of assignment techniques will be discussed including the mathematical formulation and numerical illustration of the important ones.Then the concept of bilevel programming and few examples will be presented.Finally one such example, namely the network capacity expan...

Path-Planning Algorithms for Public Transportation Systems

Computing travel plans for desired trips in public transportation systems is not exactly the same as finding a shortest driving path in a given area. Path planning in the context of public transportation systems must consider the route constraint that public vehicles serve on particular paths and that passengers cannot order the drivers to change the bus routes. Explicit representation of the r...