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In the problem of the title, vehicle and crew schedules are to be determined simultaneously in order to satisfy a given set of trips over time. The vehicles and the crew are assigned to depots, and a number of rules have to be observed in the course of constructing feasible schedules. The main contribution of the paper is a novel mathematical programming formulation which combines ideas from known models, and an exact solution procedure based on branch-and-price. The method is tested on benchmark instances from the literature and it provides suboptimal schedules using limited computational resources.
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This work has been supported by the OTKA Grant K112881, and by the GINOP-2.3.2-15-2016-00002 Grant of the Ministry of National Economy of Hungary. The authors are grateful to the developers of the SCIP Optimization Suite for their support.
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Horváth, M., Kis, T. Computing strong lower and upper bounds for the integrated multiple-depot vehicle and crew scheduling problem with branch-and-price. Cent Eur J Oper Res 27, 39–67 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-017-0489-4
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