Abstract The Political Districting problem has been studied since the 60's and many different
models and techniques have been proposed with the aim of preventing districts' …

In political districting problems, the aim is to partition a territory into electoral constituencies,
subject to some side constraints. The most common side constraints include contiguity …

For several years, parts of the content of this textbook have been used in undergraduate
courses in the Department of Mathematics and in the Faculty of Economics at the University …

Territory design may be viewed as the problem of grou** small geographic areas into
larger geographic clusters called territories in such a way that the latter are acceptable …

This article describes a districting study undertaken for the Côte-des-Neiges local
community health clinic in Montreal. A territory must be partitioned into six districts by …

Electoral district planning plays an important role in a political election, especially when a
majority voting rule is adopted, because it interferes in the translation of votes into seats. The …

For the political districting problem, I propose the following solution methodology:(a) use
Lagrangian relaxation to determine the centres of the districts, then,(b) use the transportation …

The paper deals with the problem of defining the territories for 168 sales agents of a German
manufacturer of consumer goods. About 1400 postal areas constitute the basic geographical …

The consolidation of shipments into loads arises in a number of applications, including
household moving, truckload trucking, rail and container operations. The capacitated …

This paper introduces a new approach for generating school bus routes in a dense urban
area. First, a districting algorithm is used to determine clusters including appropriate …