Warning! The directory is not yet complete and will be amended until the beginning of the term.
040127 KU Transportation Logistics (MA) (2025W)
Continuous assessment of course work
Labels
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.
Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Mo 08.09.2025 09:00 to We 17.09.2025 12:00
- Registration is open from We 24.09.2025 09:00 to Th 25.09.2025 12:00
- Deregistration possible until Tu 14.10.2025 23:59
Details
max. 50 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Midterm Exam: Wednesday 3rd of December 16:30 in HS 6
Endterm Exam: Wednesday 28th of January 16:30 in HS 6
- Tuesday 07.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 14.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 21.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 28.10. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 04.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 11.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 18.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 25.11. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 02.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Wednesday 03.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
- Tuesday 09.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 16.12. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 13.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Tuesday 20.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- N Tuesday 27.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 3 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 Erdgeschoß
- Wednesday 28.01. 16:45 - 18:15 Hörsaal 6 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 1.Stock
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
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.
Assessment and permitted materials
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.
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.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
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
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
Examination topics
Lecture and exercise notes, literature excerpts. Slides and some literature will be available through Moodle.
Reading list
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.
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.
Association in the course directory
Last modified: Fr 05.09.2025 12:25