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Operational planning within public transit companies has been extensively tackled but still remains a challenging area for operations research models and techniques. This phase of the planning process comprises vehicle-scheduling, crew-scheduling and rostering problems. In this paper, a new integer mathematical formulation to describe the integrated vehicle-crew-rostering problem is presented. The method proposed to obtain feasible solutions for this binary non-linear multi-objective optimization problem is a sequential algorithm considered within a preemptive goal programming framework that gives a higher priority to the integrated vehicle-crew-scheduling goal and a lower priority to the driver rostering goals. A heuristic approach is developed where the decision maker can choose from different vehicle-crew schedules and rosters, while respecting as much as possible management’s interests and drivers’ preferences. An application to real data of a Portuguese bus company shows the influence of vehicle-crew-scheduling optimization on rostering solutions.
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Mesquita, M., Moz, M., Paias, A. et al. A new model for the integrated vehicle-crew-rostering problem and a computational study on rosters. J Sched 14, 319–334 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10951-010-0195-8
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