A column-generation approach to line planning in public transport

Transportation Science

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 123-132

  Borndörfer, Ralf ^a   Grötschel, Martin ^a   Pfetsch, Marc E ^a  

^a ZUSE INSTITUTE BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Column generation; Line planning; Public transportation

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAILROAD TRACKS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

COLUMN GENERATION; LINE PLANNING; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; TRANSPORT NETWORK;

RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 34247521369     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1060.0161     Document Type: Article

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