A column generation approach to train timetabling on a corridor

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Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-142

  Cacchiani, Valentina ^a   Caprara, Alberto ^a   Toth, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Column generation; Constructive heuristics; Experimental results; ILP formulation; Separation; Train timetabling

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949092779     PISSN: 16194500     EISSN: 16142411     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10288-007-0037-5     Document Type: Article

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