A spatial branch-and-price-and-cut algorithm for finding globally optimal solutions to the continuous network design problem

Transportation network design, or the problem of optimizing infrastructure for a societal goal, subject to individual travelers optimizing their behavior for their own preferences arises frequently in many contexts. However, it is also an NP-hard problem due to the leader-follower or bi-level structure involving a follower objective that is different from yet significantly affects the … Read more