In this paper we present two approaches for solving a real-world vehicle routing problem arising in the air cargo road feeder service business. The problem is to combine transportation tasks from a given timetable to trips which have to be assigned to tractors and which can be operated by...

From 2012 on aviation is included in the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and operators have to hold one allowance per tonne of CO2 emitted on every flight departing from and/or arriving at an airport within the EU. Now two questions are of interest: Is it profitable for airlines to...