This timely book deals with the problem of pricing passenger and freight transportation within Europe. The contributors argue that current legislation affecting pricing and regulation is increasingly less successful in dealing with market failures and externalities such as congestion, air...

This book describes how to plan and design efficient logistics systems considering simultaneously all integral aspects of their operation, and how to evaluate economically existing or proposed systems. The approach, more physical than mathematical, requires little data. Building on an...

Conventional Optimization Techniques -- Evolutionary Computation -- Single Objective Optimization -- Evolutionary Algorithms and Constrained Optimization -- Constrained Evolutionary Optimization -- Multi-Objective Optimization -- Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization: A Critical Review --...

A Stochastic Program for Interdicting Smuggled Nuclear Material -- Enumerating Near-Min S-T Cuts -- A Decomposition-Based Pseudoapproximation Algorithm for Network Flow Inhibition -- Interdicting Stochastic Networks with Binary Interdiction Effort -- Stochastic Batch-Sizing Problems: Models and...