In industries like health care, public transport or call centers a shift-based system ensures
permanent availability of employees for covering needed services. The resource allocation …

Do people have well-defined social preferences waiting to be applied when making
decisions? Or do they have to construct social decisions on the spot? If the latter, how are …

Passenger railway operators typically employ large numbers of drivers and guards, and are
interested in providing them with fair and attractive working conditions. At Netherlands …

Planned maintenance and construction activities are crucial for heavily used railway
networks to cope with the ever increasing demand. These activities lead to changes in the …

Scarce resources are often shared between different stakeholders and need to be
scheduled fairly among them. In this paper, we study the utility loss resulting from requiring …

We consider the problem of scheduling shifts for train dispatchers: given legal and
operational constraints, the dispatching work in geographical areas should be assigned to …

Vertical equity or fairness is an important aspect in many settings, yet has received relatively
little attention in the literature. Recent developments underline the practical relevance (eg …

In this paper, we propose an innovative variable fixing strategy called de ep L agrangian u
nderestimate fi xing (DeLuxing). It is a highly effective approach for removing unnecessary …

Abstract The Fairness-Oriented Crew Rostering Problem (FCRP) considers the joint
optimization of attractiveness and fairness in cyclic crew rostering. Like many problems in …

Thanks to their high speed, large loading capacity, high degree of safety and reduced
environmental impact, trains are considered as one of the best choices among the available …