Urban Operations Research

Catalog description

Covers a sample of operations research (OR) techniques that can be used to model urban problems. Studies two main areas: (1) deterministic decision making, including linear programming and network flow problems, facility location, travel salesman and vehicle routing problems, and scheduling; (2) stochastic decision making, including probabilistic modeling, discrete Markov chains, Poisson process, queuing theory, spatially distributed queues and optimization under uncertainty.