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Existing industrial-scale navigation applications contend with massive road networks, typically employing two main categories of approaches for route planning. The first relies on precomputed road costs for optimal routing and heuristic…

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Column generation is often used to solve multi-commodity flow problems. A program for column generation always includes a module that solves a linear equation. In this paper, we address three major issues in solving linear problem during…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Liyun Dai , Hengjun Zhao , Zhiming Liu

This study addresses the rebalancing of empty modular transit pods between scheduled service trips in fixed-route bus systems. A two-stage hierarchical optimization framework is proposed. The first stage determines the minimum fleet size…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Tina Radvand , Alireza Talebpour , Yanfeng Ouyang

The bin packing problem exists widely in real logistic scenarios (e.g., packing pipeline, express delivery), with its goal to improve the packing efficiency and reduce the transportation cost. In this NP-hard combinatorial optimization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Jiahui Duan , Xialiang Tong , Fei Ni , Zhenan He , Lei Chen , Mingxuan Yuan

Ground staff agents of airlines operate many jobs at airports such as passengers check-in, planes cleaning, etc. Shift planning aims at building the sequences of jobs operated by ground staff agents, and have been widely studied given its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Julie Poullet , Axel Parmentier

Crew Pairing Optimization (CPO) is critical for an airlines' business viability, given that the crew operating cost is second only to the fuel cost. CPO aims at generating a set of flight sequences (crew pairings) to cover all scheduled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-05 Divyam Aggarwal , Dhish Kumar Saxena , Saaju Pualose , Thomas Bäck , Michael Emmerich

The purpose of this work is to develop an algorithmic optimization approach for a capacitated Multi-Commodity flow problem, where the objective is to minimize the total link costs, where the cost of each arc increases convexly with its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Guillaume Beraud-Sudreau , Lucas Létocart , Youcef Magnouche , Sébastien Martin

The rapid growth of population in urban areas is jeopardizing the mobility and air quality worldwide. One of the most notable problems arising is that of traffic congestion which in turn affects air pollution. With the advent of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-27 Albert Solé-Ribalta , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

Synthetic human mobility generation is gaining traction as an ethical and practical approach to supporting the data needs of intelligent urban systems. Existing methods perform well primarily in data-rich cities, while their effectiveness…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Bo Liu , Tong Li , Zhu Xiao , Ruihui Li , Geyong Min , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li

We consider the problem of scaling up optimal and safe controllers for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) from a single Control Zone (CZ) around a traffic conflict area to an entire network. The goal is to jointly minimize travel time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Kaiyuan Xu , Christos G. Cassandras

We study a class of nested path problems, in which every path-based variable can be decomposed into a sequence of subpaths. Subpaths must satisfy local resources, while paths must satisfy additional global resources. This paper develops a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Bart van Rossum , Rolf van Lieshout , Alexandre Jacquillat

The witnessed boom in mobility results in many problems such as urbanization, costly construction of many highways and air pollution. In an attempt to address these problems, in this master, we are interested in the implementation of a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Sawsen Ben Nasr

Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) systems have become a fixture in urban transportation networks, with the rapid growth of ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft. Ride-hailing is typically complemented with ridepooling options, which can reduce…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-30 Yang Liu , Qi Luo , Raga Gopalakrishnan , Samitha Samaranayake

Paratransit services are vital for individuals who cannot use fixed-route public transit, including those with disabilities. Optimizing these services is essential for transit agencies to deliver high-quality service efficiently. This paper…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Liam Jagrowski , Kevin Dalmeijer , Tinghan Ye , Pascal Van Hentenryck

With rapid population growth and urban development, traffic congestion has become an inescapable issue, especially in large cities. Many congestion reduction strategies have been proposed in the past, ranging from roadway extension to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-18 Ali Ghafelebashi , Meisam Razaviyayn , Maged Dessouky

We study the problem of servicing a set of ride requests by dispatching a set of shared vehicles, which is faced by ridesharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. Solving this problem at a large scale might be crucial in the future for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Valentin Buchhold , Peter Sanders , Dorothea Wagner

Shared mobility-on-demand services are expanding rapidly in cities around the world. As a prominent example, app-based ridesourcing is becoming an integral part of many urban transportation ecosystems. Despite the centrality, limited public…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-02 J Soria , Y Chen , A Stathopoulos

Bicycle-sharing systems, which can provide shared bike usage services for the public, have been launched in many big cities. In bicycle-sharing systems, people can borrow and return bikes at any stations in the service region very…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Jiawei Zhang , Xiao Pan , Moyin Li , Philip S. Yu

This study proposes a hybrid quantum-classical approach to solving the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) by integrating the Column Generation (CG) method with the Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz (QAOAnsatz). The CG method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Wei-hao Huang , Hiromichi Matsuyama , Yu Yamashiro

The number of cancer cases per year is rapidly increasing worldwide. In radiation therapy (RT), radiation from linear accelerators is used to kill malignant tumor cells. Scheduling patients for RT is difficult both due to the numerous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Sara Frimodig , Per Enqvist , Jan Kronqvist