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Large-Scale Crew Scheduling

Models, Methods, and Applications in the Railway Industry

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Authors:
  1. Silke Jütte

    1. IUBH University of Applied Sciences, Bad Honnef, Germany

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  • Gives an insight into Large-Scale Crew Scheduling
  • Presents solution approaches to European freight railway settings
  • The book is aimed at scholars and graduate students as well as practitioners from transportation companies

Part of the book series: Edition KWV (EKWV)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Introduction

    • Silke Jütte
    Pages 1-10

  3. Fundamentals of Large-Scale Crew Scheduling

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    Pages 11-31

  4. Solving Crew Scheduling Problems in the Railway Industry

    • Silke Jütte
    Pages 32-56

  5. The Divide-and-Price Decomposition Algorithm

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    Pages 57-89

  6. Decomposition Strategies for Large-Scale Crew Scheduling Problems

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    Pages 90-126

  7. Conclusion and Outlook

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    Pages 127-131

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 132-141
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About this book

During the last decades, freight transportation experienced a worldwide boom. At the same time, competition increased considerably, such that efficient cost structures are indispensable for any market player. One of the main challenges a transportation company faces is the efficient employment of its personnel in operations, commonly referred to as crew scheduling.

In this book the author presents solution approaches to large-scale crew scheduling. Firstly, the implementation of state-of-the-art operations research methods for a setting at a major European freight railway carrier is presented. Secondly, the author discusses acceleration techniques that make the developed algorithms applicable even in short-term contexts. While the analysis is based on European freight railway settings, the gained insights also apply to other (crew) scheduling contexts.


Potential readership includes scholars and graduate students who are interested in the fields of crew scheduling and column generation as well as practitioners from transportation companies looking for new planning approaches.

Authors and Affiliations

  • IUBH University of Applied Sciences, Bad Honnef, Germany

    Silke Jütte

About the author

Dr. Silke Jütte is a professor of quantitative methods at the IUBH University of Applied Sciences in Bad Honnef. Between 2003 and 2005, she has been working as an Operations Manager for Deutsche Post Consult GmbH, where she developed and optimized processes at the DHL parcel delivery machines. Afterwards, Dr. Jütte worked as a research assistant at the University of Cologne, where she did her Ph.D. in 2012 in the field of supply chain management. Her research topics include railway crew scheduling and layout planning for renewable energies. Between 2012 and 2016, Dr. Jütte has been working as a software engineer and project manager at a consultancy in Cologne. During this time, she implemented decision support systems for solving quantitative tasks in the field of logistics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Large-Scale Crew Scheduling

  • Book Subtitle: Models, Methods, and Applications in the Railway Industry

  • Authors: Silke Jütte

  • Series Title: Edition KWV

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24360-9

  • Publisher: Springer Gabler Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-24359-3Published: 12 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-24360-9Published: 02 February 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2946-0301

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-031X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 141

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Originally published by Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag, Köln, 2012

  • Topics: Logistics, Production

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