An integer programming approach to generating airline crew pairings

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1284-1298

  AhmadBeygi, Shervin ^a   Cohn, Amy ^a   Weir, Marshall ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Airline planning; Column generation; Crew pairing; Crew scheduling; Integer programming

Indexed keywords

AIR TRANSPORTATION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; SCHEDULING;

AIRLINE PLANNING; BRANCH-AND-BOUND; COLUMN GENERATION; COMMERCIAL SOLVERS; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CREW PAIRING; CREW SCHEDULING; LINEAR COST FUNCTIONS; MODELING APPROACHES; PROTOTYPING; RESEARCH IDEAS; ROBUST PLANNING;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 54449090205     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2008.02.001     Document Type: Article

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