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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2025.1
The Fair Periodic Assignment Problem

Authors: Rolf Nelson van Lieshout and Bartholomeüs Theodorus Cornelis van Rossum

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 137, 25th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2025)

Abstract
We study the periodic assignment problem, in which a set of periodically repeating tasks must be assigned to workers within a repeating schedule. The classical efficiency objective is to minimize the number of workers required to operate the schedule. We propose a 𝒪(n log n) algorithm to solve this problem. Next, we formalize a notion of fairness among workers, and impose that each worker performs the same work over time. We analyze the resulting trade-off between efficiency and fairness, showing that the price of fairness is at most one extra worker, and that such a fair solution can always be found using the Nearest Neighbor heuristic. We characterize all instances that admit a solution that is both fair and efficient, and use this result to develop a 𝒪(n log n) exact algorithm for the fair periodic assignment problem. Finally, we show that allowing aperiodic schedules never reduces the price of fairness.
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Rolf Nelson van Lieshout and Bartholomeüs Theodorus Cornelis van Rossum. The Fair Periodic Assignment Problem. In 25th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 137, pp. 1:1-1:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{vanlieshout_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2025.1,
  author =	{van Lieshout, Rolf Nelson and van Rossum, Bartholome\"{u}s Theodorus Cornelis},
  title =	{{The Fair Periodic Assignment Problem}},
  booktitle =	{25th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2025)},
  pages =	{1:1--1:16},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-404-8},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{137},
  editor =	{Sauer, Jonas and Schmidt, Marie},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2025.1},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-247574},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2025.1},
  annote =	{Keywords: Cyclic scheduling, Fairness, Traveling Salesman Problem}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2025.2
A Geometric Approach to Integrated Periodic Timetabling and Passenger Routing

Authors: Fabian Löbel and Niels Lindner

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 137, 25th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2025)

Abstract
We offer a geometric perspective on the problem of integrated periodic timetabling and passenger routing in public transport. Inside the space of periodic tensions, we single out those regions, where the same set of paths provides shortest passenger routes. This results in a polyhedral subdivision, which we combine with the known decomposition by polytropes. On each maximal region of the common refinement, the integrated problem is solvable in polynomial time. We transform these insights into a new geometry-driven primal heuristic, integrated tropical neighborhood search (ITNS). Computationally, we compare implementations of ITNS and the integrated (restricted) modulo network simplex algorithm on the TimPassLib benchmark set, and contribute better solutions in terms of total travel time for all but one of the twenty-five instances for which a proven optimal solution is not yet known.
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Fabian Löbel and Niels Lindner. A Geometric Approach to Integrated Periodic Timetabling and Passenger Routing. In 25th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2025). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 137, pp. 2:1-2:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{lobel_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2025.2,
  author =	{L\"{o}bel, Fabian and Lindner, Niels},
  title =	{{A Geometric Approach to Integrated Periodic Timetabling and Passenger Routing}},
  booktitle =	{25th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2025)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:19},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-404-8},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{137},
  editor =	{Sauer, Jonas and Schmidt, Marie},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2025.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-247580},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2025.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Periodic Timetabling, Passenger Routing, Polyhedral Complexes}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2024.4
Periodic Event Scheduling with Flexible Infrastructure Assignment

Authors: Enrico Bortoletto, Rolf Nelson van Lieshout, Berenike Masing, and Niels Lindner

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 123, 24th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2024)

Abstract
We present novel extensions of the Periodic Event Scheduling Problem (PESP) that integrate the assignment of activities to infrastructure elements. An application of this is railway timetabling, as station and platform capacities are limited and need to be taken into account. We show that an assignment of activities to platforms can always be made periodic, and that it can be beneficial to allow larger periods for the assignment than for the timetable. We present mixed-integer programming formulations for the general problem, as well as for the practically relevant case when multiple platforms can be considered equivalent, for which we present a bipartite matching approach. We finally test and compare these models on real-world instances.
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Enrico Bortoletto, Rolf Nelson van Lieshout, Berenike Masing, and Niels Lindner. Periodic Event Scheduling with Flexible Infrastructure Assignment. In 24th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2024). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 123, pp. 4:1-4:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{bortoletto_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2024.4,
  author =	{Bortoletto, Enrico and van Lieshout, Rolf Nelson and Masing, Berenike and Lindner, Niels},
  title =	{{Periodic Event Scheduling with Flexible Infrastructure Assignment}},
  booktitle =	{24th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2024)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:18},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-350-8},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{123},
  editor =	{Bouman, Paul C. and Kontogiannis, Spyros C.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2024.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-211929},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2024.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Periodic Event Scheduling, Periodic Timetabling, Railway Timetabling, Matchings, Infrastructure Assignments, Platform Assignments, Station Capacities}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.5
Integrating Line Planning for Construction Sites into Periodic Timetabling via Track Choice

Authors: Berenike Masing, Niels Lindner, and Christian Liebchen

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 115, 23rd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2023)

Abstract
We consider maintenance sites for urban rail systems, where unavailable tracks typically require changes to the regular timetable, and often even to the line plan. In this paper, we present an integrated mixed-integer linear optimization model to compute an optimal line plan that makes best use of the available tracks, together with a periodic timetable, including its detailed routing on the tracks within the stations. The key component is a flexible, turn-sensitive event-activity network that allows to integrate line planning and train routing using a track choice extension of the Periodic Event Scheduling Problem (PESP). Major goals are to maintain as much of the regular service as possible, and to keep the necessary changes rather local. Moreover, we present computational results on real construction site scenarios on the S-Bahn Berlin network. We demonstrate that this integrated problem is indeed solvable on practically relevant instances.
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Berenike Masing, Niels Lindner, and Christian Liebchen. Integrating Line Planning for Construction Sites into Periodic Timetabling via Track Choice. In 23rd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 115, pp. 5:1-5:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{masing_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.5,
  author =	{Masing, Berenike and Lindner, Niels and Liebchen, Christian},
  title =	{{Integrating Line Planning for Construction Sites into Periodic Timetabling via Track Choice}},
  booktitle =	{23rd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2023)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:15},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-302-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{115},
  editor =	{Frigioni, Daniele and Schiewe, Philine},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-187669},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: Periodic Timetabling, Line Planning, Track Choice, Mixed-Integer Programming, Construction Sites, Railway Rescheduling}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.7
Periodic Timetabling with Cyclic Order Constraints

Authors: Enrico Bortoletto, Niels Lindner, and Berenike Masing

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 115, 23rd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2023)

Abstract
Periodic timetabling for highly utilized railway networks is a demanding challenge. We formulate an infrastructure-aware extension of the Periodic Event Scheduling Problem (PESP) by requiring that not only events, but also activities using the same infrastructure must be separated by a minimum headway time. This extended problem can be modeled as a mixed-integer program by adding constraints on the sum of periodic tensions along certain cycles, so that it shares some structural properties with standard PESP. We further refine this problem by fixing cyclic orders at each infrastructure element. Although the computational complexity remains unchanged, the mixed-integer programming model then becomes much smaller. Furthermore, we also discuss how to find a minimal subset of infrastructure elements whose cyclic order already prescribes the order for the remaining parts of the network, and how cyclic order information can be modeled in a mixed-integer programming context. In practice, we evaluate the impact of cyclic orders on a real-world instance on the S-Bahn Berlin network, which turns out to be computationally fruitful.
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Enrico Bortoletto, Niels Lindner, and Berenike Masing. Periodic Timetabling with Cyclic Order Constraints. In 23rd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 115, pp. 7:1-7:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{bortoletto_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.7,
  author =	{Bortoletto, Enrico and Lindner, Niels and Masing, Berenike},
  title =	{{Periodic Timetabling with Cyclic Order Constraints}},
  booktitle =	{23rd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2023)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:18},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-302-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{115},
  editor =	{Frigioni, Daniele and Schiewe, Philine},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-187689},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2023.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Periodic Timetabling, Railway Timetabling, Periodic Event Scheduling Problem, Cyclic Orders, Mixed-Integer Programming}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2022.3
Tropical Neighbourhood Search: A New Heuristic for Periodic Timetabling

Authors: Enrico Bortoletto, Niels Lindner, and Berenike Masing

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 106, 22nd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2022)

Abstract
Periodic timetabling is a central aspect of both the long-term organization and the day-to-day operations of a public transportation system. The Periodic Event Scheduling Problem (PESP), the combinatorial optimization problem that forms the mathematical basis of periodic timetabling, is an extremely hard problem, for which optimal solutions are hardly ever found in practice. The most prominent solving strategies today are based on mixed-integer programming, and there is a concurrent PESP solver employing a wide range of heuristics [Borndörfer et al., 2020]. We present tropical neighborhood search (tns), a novel PESP heuristic. The method is based on the relations between periodic timetabling and tropical geometry [Bortoletto et al., 2022]. We implement tns into the concurrent solver, and test it on instances of the benchmarking library PESPlib. The inclusion of tns turns out to be quite beneficial to the solver: tns is able to escape local optima for the modulo network simplex algorithm, and the overall share of improvement coming from tns is substantial compared to the other methods available in the solver. Finally, we provide better primal bounds for five PESPlib instances.
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Enrico Bortoletto, Niels Lindner, and Berenike Masing. Tropical Neighbourhood Search: A New Heuristic for Periodic Timetabling. In 22nd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2022). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 106, pp. 3:1-3:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{bortoletto_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2022.3,
  author =	{Bortoletto, Enrico and Lindner, Niels and Masing, Berenike},
  title =	{{Tropical Neighbourhood Search: A New Heuristic for Periodic Timetabling}},
  booktitle =	{22nd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2022)},
  pages =	{3:1--3:19},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-259-4},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{106},
  editor =	{D'Emidio, Mattia and Lindner, Niels},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2022.3},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-171075},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2022.3},
  annote =	{Keywords: Periodic Timetabling, Tropical Geometry, Neighborhood Search, Mixed-Integer Programming}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2021.2
Forward Cycle Bases and Periodic Timetabling

Authors: Niels Lindner, Christian Liebchen, and Berenike Masing

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 96, 21st Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2021)

Abstract
Periodic timetable optimization problems in public transport can be modeled as mixed-integer linear programs by means of the Periodic Event Scheduling Problem (PESP). In order to keep the branch-and-bound tree small, minimum integral cycle bases have been proven successful. We examine forward cycle bases, where no cycle is allowed to contain a backward arc. After reviewing the theory of these bases, we describe the construction of an integral forward cycle basis on a line-based event-activity network. Adding turnarounds to the instance R1L1 of the benchmark library PESPlib, we computationally evaluate three types of forward cycle bases in the Pareto sense, and come up with significant improvements concerning dual bounds.
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Niels Lindner, Christian Liebchen, and Berenike Masing. Forward Cycle Bases and Periodic Timetabling. In 21st Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2021). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 96, pp. 2:1-2:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{lindner_et_al:OASIcs.ATMOS.2021.2,
  author =	{Lindner, Niels and Liebchen, Christian and Masing, Berenike},
  title =	{{Forward Cycle Bases and Periodic Timetabling}},
  booktitle =	{21st Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2021)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:14},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-213-6},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{96},
  editor =	{M\"{u}ller-Hannemann, Matthias and Perea, Federico},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2021.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-148719},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.ATMOS.2021.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Periodic Timetabling, Cycle Bases, Mixed Integer Programming}
}
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