This volume consists of selected papers presented at the Ninth International Conference on Computer-Aided Scheduling of Public Transport. Coverage includes the use of computer-aided methods and operations research techniques to improve: information management; network and route planning; vehicle and crew scheduling and rostering; vehicle monitoring and management; and practical experience with scheduling and public transport planning methods.

Zusammenfassung
This proceedings volume consists of selected papers presented at the Ninth Int- national Conference on Computer-Aided Scheduling of Public Transport (CASPT 2004), which was held at the Hilton San Diego Resort and Conference Center in San Diego, California, USA, from August 9-11, 2004. The CASPT 2004 conference is the continuation of a series of international workshops and conferences prese- ing recent research and progress in computer-aided scheduling in public transport. Previous workshops and conferences were held in: • Chicago (1975) • Leeds (1980) • Montreal (1983 and 1990) • Hamburg (1987) • Lisbon (1993) • Cambridge, Mass. (1997) 1 • Berlin (2000) 1 While there were no formal proceedings for the ?rst workshop (only pre-prints were d- tributedtoparticipants),thesubsequentworkshopsandconferenceswerewelldocumented: Wren, A. (ed.) (1981). Computer Scheduling of Public Transport, North-Holland, - sterdam. Rousseau, J.-M. (ed.) (1985). Computer Scheduling of Public Transport 2, North- Holland, Amsterdam. Daduna, J.R. and A. Wren (eds.) (1988). Computer-Aided Transit Scheduling, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 308, Springer, Berlin. Desrochers, M. and J.-M. Rousseau (eds.) (1992). Computer-Aided Transit Scheduling, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 386, Springer, Berlin. Daduna, J.R., I. Branco, and J.M.P. Paixao (eds.) (1995). Computer-Aided Transit Scheduling, Lectures Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 430, Springer, Berlin. Wilson, N.H.M. (ed.) (1999). Computer-Aided Transit Scheduling, Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 471, Springer, Berlin.

Inhalt
Vehicle and Crew Scheduling.- A Bundle Method for Integrated Multi-Depot Vehicle and Duty Scheduling in Public Transit.- A Crew Scheduling Approach for Public Transit Enhanced with Aspects from Vehicle Scheduling.- Vehicle and Crew Scheduling: Solving Large Real-World Instances with an Integrated Approach.- Line Change Considerations Within a Time-Space Network Based Multi-Depot Bus Scheduling Model.- Scheduling Models for Short-Term Railway Traffic Optimisation.- Team-Oriented Airline Crew Rostering for Cockpit Personnel.- Routing and Timetabling.- The Modeling Power of the Periodic Event Scheduling Problem: Railway Timetables and Beyond.- Performance of Algorithms for Periodic Timetable Optimization.- Mixed-Fleet Ferry Routing and Scheduling.- Generating Train Plans with Problem Space Search.- School Bus Routing in Rural School Districts.- Service Monitoring, Operations, and Dispatching.- A Metaheuristic Approach to Aircraft Departure Scheduling at London Heathrow Airport.- Improving Scheduling Through Performance Monitoring.- Parallel Auction Algorithm for Bus Rescheduling.- Schedule-Based and Autoregressive Bus Running Time Modeling in the Presence of Driver-Bus Heterogeneity.- A Train Holding Model for Urban Rail Transit Systems.- The Holding Problem at Multiple Holding Stations.- Network Design, Fleet Sizing, and Strategic Planning.- Models for Line Planning in Public Transport.- Improved Lower-Bound Fleet Size for Transit Schedules.- A Tabu Search Based Heuristic Method for the Transit Route Network Design Problem.- Bus Tolling for Urban Transit System Management.- Sensitivity Analyses over the Service Area for Mobility Allowance Shuttle Transit (MAST) Services.