A stochastic programming approach to the airline crew scheduling problem

Transportation Science

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-14

  Yen, Joyce W ^a   Birge, John R ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Airline operations; Crew scheduling; Stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CREW ACCOMMODATIONS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; SCHEDULING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING;

AIRLINE CREW SCHEDULING; AIRLINE OPERATIONS; CREW SCHEDULING;

AIR TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 33644599009     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1050.0138     Document Type: Article

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