Jean-François Cordeau
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This article reviews ten of the most important tabu search heuristics for the vehicle routing problem. Some of the main tabu search features are first desc...
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In this paper we introduce a new formulation of the logistics network design problem encountered in deterministic, single-country, single-period contexts. O...
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Assigning locomotives and cars to a set of scheduled trains is a complex but important problem for passenger railways. This task is normally carried out in ...
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Given a set of flight legs to be flown by a single type of aircraft, the simultaneous aircraft routing and crew scheduling problem consists of determining a...
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This paper presents a survey of the research on the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW), an extension of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Probl...
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The problem of assigning locomotives and cars to trains is a complex task for most railways. In this paper, we propose a multi-commodity network flow based ...
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An important aspect of railway planning concerns the distribution of locomotives and cars in the network and their assignment to the scheduled trains. In th...
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One of the many problems faced by rail transportation companies is to optimize the utilization of the available stock of locomotives and cars. In this paper...
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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 pro...
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This article describes the results of a study aimed at improving linen delivery operations in a large teaching hospital in Montreal. Improvements over the p...
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Uniformity tests based on a discrete form of entropy are introduced and studied in the context of empirical testing of uniform random number generators. Nu...
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