Universität Wien

040127 KU Transportation Logistics /MA) (2025W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 4 - Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung

The course language is English.

Only students who signed up for the class in univis/u:space are allowed to take the class (that means, that you have to at least be on the waiting list if you want to take this class). No exceptions possible.
Moodle
Di 16.12. 16:45-18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß

An/Abmeldung

Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

Details

max. 50 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

Midterm Exam: Wednesday 3rd of December 16:30 in HS 6
Endterm Exam: Wednesday 28th of January 16:30 in HS 6

  • Dienstag 07.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 14.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 21.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 28.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 04.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 11.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 18.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 25.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 02.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 03.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
  • Dienstag 09.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 13.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 20.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Dienstag 27.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
  • Mittwoch 28.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This course is an introduction to optimisation problems that appear in Transportation Logistics. Along the semester, we will cover several of these problems, and study their corresponding mathematical formulations and solution methods.

Some problems covered in the lecture are: shortest paths, traveling salesman, vehicle routing, and arc routing problems, and maybe others.

Among the methods we will learn: combinatorial algorithms, modelling and solving problems as mixed-integer programs, heuristics, dynamic programming, and branch-and-bound.

This course is broad rather than deep, which means that we emphasise covering a good number of problems and methods, without spending too much time in any of them. The focus is on learning methods, and developing intuition behind why they work.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

2 exams, each corresponding to 40% of the final grade.
Several homeworks to be announced every week, and handed in in the beginning of the following class. These account for the remaining 20% of the grade.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Students should be familiar with Excel (in special, the Solver), and have basic knowledge about linear programming (i.e., understand a LP formulation, and how to apply the simplex method).
This course requires a somewhat higher level of abstraction, when compared to a Bachelor course. Students are expected to spend around 1-2 hours per week in out-of-class studies (reviewing the content, and preparing the homeworks).

Midterm Exam: Wednesday 3rd of December 16:30 in HS 6
Endterm Exam: Wednesday 28th of January 16:30 in HS 6

Prüfungsstoff

Lecture and exercise notes, literature excerpts. Slides and some literature will be available through Moodle.

Literatur

Slides will be available through Moodle.
Excerpt of the recommended literature on the slides:
- Gianpaolo Ghiani, Gilbert Laporte, and Roberto Musmanno. Introducing logistics. In
Introduction to Logistics Systems Management, pages 1–43. John Wiley & Sons,
Ltd, 2013. doi: 10.1002/9781118492185.ch1.

- R.K. Ahuja, T.L. Magnanti, and J.B. Orlin. Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and
Applications. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1993. ISBN
0-13-617549-X.

- Gregory Gutin and Abraham P Punnen. The Traveling Salesman Problem and Its
Variations, volume 12. Springer Science & Business Media, 2006.

- Paolo Toth and Daniele Vigo, editors. Vehicle routing: Problems, methods, and
applications, volume 18 of MOS-SIAM Series on Optimization. SIAM, Philadelphia,
PA, 2014.

-Corberán, Ángel, and Gilbert Laporte, eds. Arc routing: problems, methods, and applications.
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2015.

For a quick review of linear programming, including the simplex method, students are referred to:
Hillier, Lieberman. Introduction to Operations Research. Chapters 1-5.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Letzte Änderung: Fr 05.09.2025 12:25