Reading assignments for specific lectures (L) and recitations (R) are listed below. Additional suggested readings are also provided.
| SES # | TOPICS | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| L1 | Course Overview and Roadmap, Carrier Systems Overview | |
| L2 | Linear Programming Overview | Grier, Nathaniel. "Formulating a Mathematical Program: An Overview." 2001. (Cambridge, MA: 1.224 Carrier Systems Tutorial, MIT). (PDF) |
| R1 | Linear Programming, Software | |
| L3 | Solving Linear Programming Problems | |
| L4 | Integer Programming | |
| R2 | Integer Programming | |
| L5 | Networks | |
| R3 | Networks | |
| L6 | Part 1: Direct Transportation | |
| L7 | Part 1: Transportation and Procurement | |
| R4 | Direct Transportation/ Transportation and Procurement | |
| L8 | Part 2: Transit Vehicle Scheduling | Blais, J. Y., J. Lamont, and J. M. Rousseau. "The HASTUS Vehicle and Manpower Scheduling System at the Societe de transport de la Communaute urbaine de Montreal." Interfaces 20, no. 1 (1990): 26-42. Odoni, A. R., J. -M. Rousseau, and N. H. M. Wilson. "Models in Urban and Air Transportation." Chapter 5 in Operations Research and the Public Sector, Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science. Vol. 6. Edited by S. M. Pollock, M. H. Rothkopf, and A. Barnett. 1994, pp. 129-150. Shen, S. "Vehicle and Crew Scheduling." 2000. (Cambridge, MA: 1.224 Carrier Systems Case Study, MIT). |
| L9 | Part 2: Transit Crew Scheduling | |
| L10 | Part 3: Airline Routing and Crew Scheduling | Barnhart, C., A. M. Cohn, E. L. Johnson, D. Klabjan, G. L. Nemhauser, and P. H. Vance. "Airline Crew Scheduling." In Handbook of Transportation Science. 2nd ed. Edited by Randolph W. Hall. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, November 2001. Cohn, A. "Making the Trade-off Between Optimality and Tractability When Solving Large Transportation Models: A Case Study on the Airline Industry." 2000. (Cambridge, MA: 1.224 Carrier Systems Case Study, MIT). (PDF) |
| R5 | Transit Vehicle and Crew Scheduling | |
| L11 | Part 3: Airline Routing and Crew Scheduling (cont.) | |
| L12 | Real-time Operations Control | |
| L13 | Synthesis and Review |
Additional References
Bradley, S. P., A. C. Hax, and T. L. Magnanti. Applied Mathematical Programming. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1977. ISBN: 020100464X.
Winston, W. L. Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1994. ISBN: 0534380581.