Publisher Summary Railway transportation can be split into passenger transportation and
cargo transportation. This chapter discusses the European situation, where the major part of …

The railway crew scheduling problem consists of finding the most efficient duty combination
for railway crews to cover all trains and related activities for a defined period of time. Crew …

The aim of this paper is to present a survey of recent optimization models for the most
commonly studied rail transportation problems. For each group of problems, we propose a …

Computational methods for rostering and personnel scheduling has been a subject of
continued research and commercial interest since the 1950s. This annotated bibliography …

Abstract The Set Covering Problem (SCP) is a main model for several important
applications, including crew scheduling in railway and mass-transit companies. In this …

This study focuses on feature selection in paralinguistic analysis and presents recently
developed supervised and unsupervised methods for feature subset selection and feature …

We present a new method for instance-specific algorithm configuration (ISAC). It is based on
the integration of the algorithm configuration system GGA and the recently proposed …

Many problems arising in traffic planning can be modelled and solved using discrete
optimization. We will focus on recent developments which were applied to large scale real …

Airline crew rostering is an important part of airline operations and an interesting problem for
the application of operations research. The objective is to assign anonymous crew pairings …

An important strategic element in the planning process of a railway operator is the
development of a line plan, ie, a set of routes (paths) on the network of tracks, operated at a …