Infrastructure Optimization and Transport Operations

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Lectures combining theoretical explanations with exercise solving and with conceptual and real-case discussions.

Learning Outcomes

Provide students with a deep knowledge and with advanced R&D skills and competences on the subject of optimization of transport infrastructure and operations.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The role of optimization in decision processes. Formulation and resolution of optimization models.

Optimization of logistic systems. Warehouse location, fleet sizing, vehicle routing, and service network design models.

Optimization of road and rail transport systems. Road and rail capacity. Road and rail network design and conservation models. Transit network design models. Highway and railway alignment models. Traffic signal control models.

Optimization of air transport systems. Airport capacity. Airport network design models. Air traffic management models. Airline network design models (flight scheduling, fleet and crew assignment). Revenue management models.

Consideration of uncertainty issues in transport systems optimization.

Head Lecturer(s)

Adelino Jorge Lopes Ferreira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Home assignments and written final exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Barnhart C, Belobaba P, Odoni AR, “Applications of Operations Research in the air transport industry”, Transportation Science 37(4): 368–391, 2003

Barnhart C, Laporte G (Eds.), Transportation, North-Holland, 2007

Cordeau J-F, Toth P, Vigo D, “A survey of optimization models for train routing and scheduling”, Transportation Science 32(4): 380–404, 1998

Eiselt HA, Sandblom C-L, Integer Programming and Network Models, Springer, 2000

Ghiani G, Laporte G, Musmanno R, Introduction to Logistics Systems Planning and Control, Wiley, 2004

Yang H, Bell MGH, “Models and algorithms for road network design: a review and some new developments”, Transport Reviews 18(3): 257-278, 1998