| Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester |
| Scope and form: Lectures and exercises |
| Evaluation: Approval of coursework/reports
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| Examination: 13-scale |
| Previous course: 04432 |
| Prerequisites: 02713 / 04232 / C0431 |
| Preferred prerequisites: 02711 / 04231 |
Aim: To enable students to use operations research methods to formulate and solve decision problems regarding transportation of goods or persons and
the related physical framework. Location deals with the geographical placement of activities interacting with the surroundings through transportation. Distribution deals with many problems in relation to the design and operation of transportation systems. In actual practice the problem formulation often results in a model that is solvable only by a specifically adapted method; hence the course aims to enable students to design solution methods themselves by developing and combining the presented methods. |
| Contents: Locating a single facility using various distance measures. Location on a sphere. Locating a linear facility. Dynamic and stochastic location. Locating several facilities. Minimax location. Location-allocation models. Layout. The travelling salesman problem. Road networks and road data bases. Vehicle routing, including Dial-a-Ride and time windows. Routing and location. Arc routing. Manpower planning. Route choice models. Planning of scheduled transportation systems. |
| Remarks: The course is given jointly by IMM and CTT. |
Contact: Henrik Juel, building 305, (+45) 4525 3391, hj@imm.dtu.dk
Oli G Madsen, building 115, (+45) 4525 1526, ogm@ctt.dtu.dk |
| Department: 002 Informatics and Mathematical Modelling |
| Course URL: http://www.imm.dtu.dk/courses/02721 |
| Keywords: Vehicle-routing, Transport-optimization, Fleet-size, Facility-location, Crew-scheduling |
| Updated: 15-03-2001 |
