Efficient trip generation with a rule modeling system for crew scheduling problems

Authors:
Christos Goumopoulos;Efthymios Housos
Affiliations:
Lyseis Ltd AITS, Patras Scientific Park, GR-26500, Platani Patras, Greece;Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Systems Laboratory, University of Patras, GR-26500 Rio Patras, Greece
Venue:
Journal of Systems and Software
Year:
2004

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Abstract

Trip generation is the most time consuming phase in the solution process of crew scheduling problems faced by large transportation companies such as airlines and railways. A large number of trips must be constructed while satisfying a complex set of regulations. In this paper, we present an efficient trip generation method that utilizes originally a rule modeling system in order to reduce the corresponding search space. Special pruning rules are defined using a high-level rule language, which also supports the modeling of the business regulations required in the scheduling process. In addition, the legality checking mechanism involved has been tuned to perform efficiently in order to cope with the vast amount of the legality checks required by the trip generator. The algorithms are tested as a module for a crew scheduling application satisfying the tight response time requirements of a production system. We present experimental results based on problems provided by a major European airline that validate the usefulness and applicability of our work.