OASIcs, Volume 14

10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)



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ATMOS 2010, September 9, 2010, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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Thomas Erlebach
Marco Lübbecke

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  • published at: 2010-09-01
  • Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
  • ISBN: 978-3-939897-20-0
  • DBLP: db/conf/atmos/atmos2010

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Complete Volume
OASIcs, Volume 14, ATMOS'10, Complete Volume

Authors: Thomas Erlebach and Marco Lübbecke


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OASIcs, Volume 14, ATMOS'10, Complete Volume

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10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)


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@Proceedings{erlebach_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010,
  title =	{{OASIcs, Volume 14, ATMOS'10, Complete Volume}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2012},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-35767},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010},
  annote =	{Keywords: Analysis of Algorithms and Problem Complexity, Optimization, Graph Theory, Applications}
}
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Front Matter
Frontmatter, Table of Contents, Preface, Organization

Authors: Thomas Erlebach and Marco Lübbecke


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Titlepage, Table of Contents, Preface, Organization.

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10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. i-ix, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{erlebach_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.i,
  author =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  title =	{{Frontmatter, Table of Contents, Preface, Organization}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{i--ix},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.i},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27584},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.i},
  annote =	{Keywords: Titlepage, Table of Contents, Preface, Organization}
}
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Almost 20 Years of Combinatorial Optimization for Railway Planning: from Lagrangian Relaxation to Column Generation

Authors: Alberto Caprara


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We summarize our experience in solving combinatorial optimization problems arising in railway planning, illustrating all of these problems as integer multicommodity flow ones and discussing the main features of the mathematical programming models that were successfully used in the 1990s and in recent years to solve them.

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Alberto Caprara. Almost 20 Years of Combinatorial Optimization for Railway Planning: from Lagrangian Relaxation to Column Generation. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 1-12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{caprara:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.1,
  author =	{Caprara, Alberto},
  title =	{{Almost 20 Years of Combinatorial Optimization for Railway Planning: from Lagrangian Relaxation to Column Generation}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{1--12},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27452},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Railway Planning, Integer Multicommodity Flow, Integer Linear Programming Formulations, Lagrangian Relaxation, Column Generation}
}
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Railway Track Allocation by Rapid Branching

Authors: Ralf Borndörfer, Thomas Schlechte, and Steffen Weider


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The track allocation problem, also known as train routing problem or train timetabling problem, is to find a conflict-free set of train routes of maximum value in a railway network. Although it can be modeled as a standard path packing problem, instances of sizes relevant for real-world railway applications could not be solved up to now. We propose a rapid branching column generation approach that integrates the solution of the LP relaxation of a path coupling formulation of the problem with a special rounding heuristic. The approach is based on and exploits special properties of the bundle method for the approximate solution of convex piecewise linear functions. Computational results for difficult instances of the benchmark library TTPLIB are reported.

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Ralf Borndörfer, Thomas Schlechte, and Steffen Weider. Railway Track Allocation by Rapid Branching. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 13-23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{borndorfer_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.13,
  author =	{Bornd\"{o}rfer, Ralf and Schlechte, Thomas and Weider, Steffen},
  title =	{{Railway Track Allocation by Rapid Branching}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{13--23},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27465},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: track allocation problem, integer programming, rapid branching heuristic, proximal bundle method}
}
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Robust Train Routing and Online Re-scheduling

Authors: Alberto Caprara, Laura Galli, Leo Kroon, Gábor Maróti, and Paolo Toth


Abstract
Train Routing is a problem that arises in the early phase of the passenger railway planning process, usually several months before operating the trains. The main goal is to assign each train a stopping platform and the corresponding arrival/departure paths through a railway station. It is also called Train Platforming when referring to the platform assignment task. Railway stations often represent bottlenecks and train delays can easily disrupt the routing schedule. Thereby railway stations are responsible for a large part of the delay propagation in the whole network. In this research we present different models to compute robust routing schedules and we study their power in an online context together with different re-scheduling strategies. We also design a simulation framework and use it to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of the proposed robust models and re-scheduling algorithms using real-world data from Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, the main Italian Railway Infrastructure Manager.

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Alberto Caprara, Laura Galli, Leo Kroon, Gábor Maróti, and Paolo Toth. Robust Train Routing and Online Re-scheduling. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 24-33, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{caprara_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.24,
  author =	{Caprara, Alberto and Galli, Laura and Kroon, Leo and Mar\'{o}ti, G\'{a}bor and Toth, Paolo},
  title =	{{Robust Train Routing and Online Re-scheduling}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{24--33},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27470},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: Railway optimisation, Train platforming, Robust planning, Online re-scheduling, Simulation}
}
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Heuristics for the Traveling Repairman Problem with Profits

Authors: Thijs Dewilde, Dirk Cattrysse, Sofie Coene, Frits C. R. Spieksma, and Pieter Vansteenwegen


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In the traveling repairman problem with profits, a repairman (also known as the server) visits a subset of nodes in order to collect time-dependent profits. The objective consists of maximizing the total collected revenue. We restrict our study to the case of a single server with nodes located in the Euclidean plane. We investigate properties of this problem, and we derive a mathematical model assuming that the number of visited nodes is known in advance. We describe a tabu search algorithm with multiple neighborhoods, and we test its performance by running it on instances based on TSPLIB. We conclude that the tabu search algorithm finds good-quality solutions fast, even for large instances.

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Thijs Dewilde, Dirk Cattrysse, Sofie Coene, Frits C. R. Spieksma, and Pieter Vansteenwegen. Heuristics for the Traveling Repairman Problem with Profits. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 34-44, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{dewilde_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.34,
  author =	{Dewilde, Thijs and Cattrysse, Dirk and Coene, Sofie and Spieksma, Frits C. R. and Vansteenwegen, Pieter},
  title =	{{Heuristics for the Traveling Repairman Problem with Profits}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{34--44},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.34},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27489},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.34},
  annote =	{Keywords: Traveling Repairman, Profits, Latency, Tabu Search, Relief Efforts}
}
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Dynamic Graph Generation and Dynamic Rolling Horizon Techniques in Large Scale Train Timetabling

Authors: Frank Fischer and Christoph Helmberg


Abstract
The aim of the train timetabling problem is to find a conflict free timetable for a set of passenger and freight trains along their routes in an infrastructure network. Several constraints like station capacities and train dependent running and headway times have to be satisfied. In this work we deal with large scale instances of the aperiodic train timetabling problem for the German railway network. The problem is modelled in a classical way via time discretised networks, its Lagrange-dual is solved by a bundle method. In order to handle the enormous number of variables and constraints dynamic graph generation and dynamic rolling horizon techniques are employed.

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Frank Fischer and Christoph Helmberg. Dynamic Graph Generation and Dynamic Rolling Horizon Techniques in Large Scale Train Timetabling. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 45-60, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{fischer_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.45,
  author =	{Fischer, Frank and Helmberg, Christoph},
  title =	{{Dynamic Graph Generation and Dynamic Rolling Horizon Techniques in Large Scale Train Timetabling}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{45--60},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.45},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27492},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.45},
  annote =	{Keywords: combinatorial optimization, train-timetabling}
}
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Vertex Disjoint Paths for Dispatching in Railways

Authors: Holger Flier, Matús Mihalák, Anita Schöbel, Peter Widmayer, and Anna Zych


Abstract
We study variants of the vertex disjoint paths problem in planar graphs where paths have to be selected from a given set of paths. We study the problem as a decision, maximization, and routing-in-rounds problem. Although all considered variants are NP-hard in planar graphs, restrictions on the location of the terminals, motivated by railway applications, lead to polynomially solvable cases for the decision and maximization versions of the problem, and to a $p$-approximation algorithm for the routing-in-rounds problem, where $p$ is the maximum number of alternative paths for a terminal pair.

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Holger Flier, Matús Mihalák, Anita Schöbel, Peter Widmayer, and Anna Zych. Vertex Disjoint Paths for Dispatching in Railways. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 61-73, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{flier_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.61,
  author =	{Flier, Holger and Mihal\'{a}k, Mat\'{u}s and Sch\"{o}bel, Anita and Widmayer, Peter and Zych, Anna},
  title =	{{Vertex Disjoint Paths for Dispatching in Railways}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{61--73},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.61},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27508},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.61},
  annote =	{Keywords: algorithms, approximation, complexity, graph theory, railways, routing, transportation}
}
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Engineering Time-Dependent Many-to-Many Shortest Paths Computation

Authors: Robert Geisberger and Peter Sanders


Abstract
Computing distance tables is important for many logistics problems like the vehicle routing problem (VRP). While shortest distances from all source nodes in S to all target nodes in T are time-independent, travel times are not. We present the first efficient algorithms to compute time-dependent travel time tables in large time-dependent road networks. Our algorithms are based on time-dependent contraction hierarchies (TCH), currently the fastest time-dependent speed-up technique. The computation of a table is inherently in Theta(|S|*|T|), and therefore inefficient for large tables. We provide one particular algorithm using only Theta(|S|+|T|) time and space, being able to answer queries two orders of magnitude faster than the basic TCH implementation. If small errors are acceptable, approximate versions of our algorithms are further orders of magnitude faster.

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Robert Geisberger and Peter Sanders. Engineering Time-Dependent Many-to-Many Shortest Paths Computation. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 74-87, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{geisberger_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.74,
  author =	{Geisberger, Robert and Sanders, Peter},
  title =	{{Engineering Time-Dependent Many-to-Many Shortest Paths Computation}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{74--87},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.74},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27511},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.74},
  annote =	{Keywords: time-dependent, travel time table, algorithm engineering, vrp}
}
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Fast Detour Computation for Ride Sharing

Authors: Robert Geisberger, Dennis Luxen, Sabine Neubauer, Peter Sanders, and Lars Volker


Abstract
Ride sharing becomes more and more popular not least because internet services help matching offers and request. However, current systems use a rather simple-minded functionality allowing to search for the origin and destination city, sometimes enriched with radial search around the cities. We show that theses services can be substantially improved using innovative route planning algorithms. More concretely, we generalize previous static algorithms for many-to-many routing to a dynamic setting and develop an additional pruning strategy. With these measures it becomes possible to match each request to $n$ offers using $2n+1$ exact travel time computations in a large road network in a fraction of a microsecond per offer. For requests spread over Germany according to population density, we are able to reduce the number of failing entries substantially. We are able to find a reasonable match for more than 60% of the failing entries left by contemporary matching strategies. Additionally, we halve the average waste of resources in the matches found compared to radial search.

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Robert Geisberger, Dennis Luxen, Sabine Neubauer, Peter Sanders, and Lars Volker. Fast Detour Computation for Ride Sharing. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 88-99, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{geisberger_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.88,
  author =	{Geisberger, Robert and Luxen, Dennis and Neubauer, Sabine and Sanders, Peter and Volker, Lars},
  title =	{{Fast Detour Computation for Ride Sharing}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{88--99},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.88},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27525},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.88},
  annote =	{Keywords: ride sharing, algorithm engineering, carpool}
}
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An Empirical Analysis of Robustness Concepts for Timetabling

Authors: Marc Goerigk and Anita Schöbel


Abstract
Calculating timetables that are insensitive to disturbances has drawn considerable research efforts due to its practical importance on the one hand and its hard tractability by classical robustness concepts on the other hand. Many different robustness concepts for timetabling have been suggested in the literature, some of them very recently. In this paper we compare such concepts on real-world instances. We also introduce a new approach that is generically applicable to any robustness problem. Nevertheless it is able to adapt the special characteristics of the respective problem structure and hence generates solutions that fit to the needs of the respective problem.

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Marc Goerigk and Anita Schöbel. An Empirical Analysis of Robustness Concepts for Timetabling. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 100-113, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{goerigk_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.100,
  author =	{Goerigk, Marc and Sch\"{o}bel, Anita},
  title =	{{An Empirical Analysis of Robustness Concepts for Timetabling}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{100--113},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.100},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27537},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.100},
  annote =	{Keywords: Timetabling, Robust Optimization, Algorithm Engineering}
}
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Traffic Signal Optimization Using Cyclically Expanded Networks

Authors: Ekkehard Köhler and Martin Strehler


Abstract
Traditionally, the coordination of multiple traffic signals and the traffic assignment problem in an urban street network are considered as two separate optimization problems. However, it is easy to see that the traffic assignment has an influence on the optimal signal coordination and, vice versa, a change in the signal coordination changes the optimal traffic assignment. In this paper we present a cyclically time-expanded network and a corresponding mixed integer linear programming formulation for simultaneously optimizing both the coordination of traffic signals and the traffic assignment in an urban street network. Although the new cyclically time-expanded network provides a model of both traffic and signals close to reality, it still has the advantage of a linear objective function. Using this model we compute optimized signal coordinations and traffic assignment on real-world street networks. To evaluate the practical relevance of the computed solutions we conduct extensive simulation experiments using two established traffic simulation tools that reveal the advantages of our model.

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Ekkehard Köhler and Martin Strehler. Traffic Signal Optimization Using Cyclically Expanded Networks. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 114-129, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{kohler_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.114,
  author =	{K\"{o}hler, Ekkehard and Strehler, Martin},
  title =	{{Traffic Signal Optimization Using Cyclically Expanded Networks}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{114--129},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.114},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27542},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.114},
  annote =	{Keywords: dynamic flow, traffic optimization, traffic signals}
}
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Column Generation Heuristic for a Rich Arc Routing Problem

Authors: Sébastien Lannez, Christian Artigues, Jean Damay, and Michel Gendreau


Abstract
In this paper we address a real world optimisation problem, the Rail Track Inspection Scheduling Problem (RTISP). This problem consists of scheduling network inspection tasks. The objective is to minimise total deadhead distance. A mixed integer formulation of the problem is presented. A column generation based algorithm is proposed to solve this rich arc routing problem. Its performance is analysed by benchmarking a real world dataset from the French national railway company (SNCF). The efficiency of the algorithm is compared to an enhanced greedy algorithm. Its ability to schedule one year of inspection tasks on a sparse graph with thousand nodes, arcs and edges is assessed.

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Sébastien Lannez, Christian Artigues, Jean Damay, and Michel Gendreau. Column Generation Heuristic for a Rich Arc Routing Problem. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 130-141, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{lannez_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.130,
  author =	{Lannez, S\'{e}bastien and Artigues, Christian and Damay, Jean and Gendreau, Michel},
  title =	{{Column Generation Heuristic for a Rich Arc Routing Problem}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{130--141},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.130},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27559},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.130},
  annote =	{Keywords: arc routing, column generation, heuristic, railtrack maintenance}
}
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The Team Orienteering Problem: Formulations and Branch-Cut and Price

Authors: Marcus Poggi, Henrique Viana, and Eduardo Uchoa


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The Team Orienteering Problem is a routing problem on a graph with durations associated to the arcs and profits assigned to visiting the vertices. A fixed number of identical vehicles, with a limited total duration for their routes, is given. The total profit gathered by all routes is to be maximized. We devise an extended formulation where edges are indexed by the time they are placed in the route. A new class of inequalities, min cut, and the triangle clique cuts of Pessoa et. al., 2007 are added. The resulting formulation is solved by column generation. Branching is done following the work of Boussier et al. 2007, to which the branch-cut-and-price algorithm here proposed is compared. A few new upper bounds were obtained. Overall the presented approach has shown to be very competitive.

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Marcus Poggi, Henrique Viana, and Eduardo Uchoa. The Team Orienteering Problem: Formulations and Branch-Cut and Price. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 142-155, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{poggi_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.142,
  author =	{Poggi, Marcus and Viana, Henrique and Uchoa, Eduardo},
  title =	{{The Team Orienteering Problem: Formulations and Branch-Cut and Price}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{142--155},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.142},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27561},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.142},
  annote =	{Keywords: Branch-Cut and Price, Team Orienteering Problem, Column Generation}
}
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The Complexity of Integrating Routing Decisions in Public Transportation Models

Authors: Marie Schmidt and Anita Schöbel


Abstract
To model and solve optimization problems arising in public transportation, data about the passengers is necessary and has to be included in the models in any phase of the planning process. Many approaches assume a two-step procedure: in a first step, the data about the passengers is distributed over the public transportation network using traffic-assignment procedures. In a second step, the actual planning of lines, timetables, etc. takes place. This approach ignores that for most passengers there are many possible ways to reach their destinations in the public transportation network, thus the actual connections the passengers will take depend strongly on the decisions made during the planning phase. In this paper we investigate the influence of integrating the traffic assignment procedure in the optimization process on the complexity of line planning and aperiodic timetabling. In both problems, our objective is to maximize the passengers' benefit, namely to minimize the overall travel time of the passengers in the network. We present new models, analyze NP-hardness results arising from the integration of the routing decisions in the traditional models, and derive polynomial algorithms for special cases.

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Marie Schmidt and Anita Schöbel. The Complexity of Integrating Routing Decisions in Public Transportation Models. In 10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 14, pp. 156-169, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2010)


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@InProceedings{schmidt_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.156,
  author =	{Schmidt, Marie and Sch\"{o}bel, Anita},
  title =	{{The Complexity of Integrating Routing Decisions in Public Transportation Models}},
  booktitle =	{10th Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS'10)},
  pages =	{156--169},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-20-0},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2010},
  volume =	{14},
  editor =	{Erlebach, Thomas and L\"{u}bbecke, Marco},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.156},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-27575},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2010.156},
  annote =	{Keywords: Line Planning, Timetabling, Routing}
}

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