Illustration for Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods. (Image courtesy of Elaine Chew.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Richard C. Larson
Prof. Amedeo R. Odoni
Prof. Arnold Barnett
MIT Course Number
1.203J / 6.281J / 15.073J / 16.76J / ESD.216J
As Taught In
Fall 2006
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
- Online textbooks
- Selected lecture notes
- Assignments: problem sets with solutions
- Exams and solutions
- Images on Flickr
Course Highlights
This course features a link to the online textbook in the syllabus.
Course Description
The class will cover quantitative techniques of Operations Research with emphasis on applications in transportation systems analysis (urban, air, ocean, highway, pick-up and delivery systems) and in the planning and design of logistically oriented urban service systems (e.g., fire and police departments, emergency medical services, emergency repair services). It presents a unified study of functions of random variables, geometrical probability, multi-server queueing theory, spatial location theory, network analysis and graph theory, and relevant methods of simulation. There will be discussion focused on the difficulty of implementation, among other topics.
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