Course Information
Welcome to Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods, Fall 2001.
Textbook
The required material for the subject will be the textbook, Urban Operations Research, Prentice Hall, 1981 (Larson and Odoni). The textbook has been converted to html files and is available online. The textbook is also available to purchase in hard copy.
The interactive color animations and the on-line textbook were made possible by a grant from the Sloan Foundation under their program supporting ALN, Asychronous Learning Networks. The animations were created by Elaine Chew when she was a doctoral student at the MIT Operations Research Center.
Grading
The course will be graded on the basis of two in-class quizzes and approximately six problem sets. Homework counts for approximately one-third of your final grade. Moreover, doing the homework is essential preparation for the quizzes.