Crew scheduling of light rail transit in Hong Kong: From modeling to implementation

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 887-894

  Chu, Sydney C K ^a   Chan, Edmond C H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b Hong Kong International Airport   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Crew scheduling; Heuristics; Optimization modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONNEL; SCHEDULING;

CREW SCHEDULING;

LIGHT RAIL TRANSIT;

EID: 0032210281     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(98)00030-6     Document Type: Article

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