Transportation Science Classics

To celebrate the 50^th anniversary of Transportation Science, the editorial team has chosen 12 Transportation Science Classics: articles that have appeared in Transportation Science in the last 50 years and have had, each in their own way, a strong impact on the science and/or practice of transportation and logistics. The Transportation Science Classics can be downloaded free of charge during 2016. Of course, with so many ground-breaking and excellent quality articles, published over so many years, choosing 12 Transportation Science Classics was challenging and involved making difficult decisions. The selection was guided by the following principles. Even though overview and survey articles are important, valuable, and often highly cited, they were excluded. Highly cited papers (either in terms of total number of citations or in terms of number of annual citations) were prime candidates. However, the impact of an article is not always captured by the number of citations, so a few articles have been included because several editorial board members felt they needed to be. In the end, the articles represent most, but not all, the research areas that have contributed and continue to contribute to the success of the journal.

An Algorithm for the Traffic Assignment Problem
S Nguyen
Transportation Science 8(3):203-216, 1974

On Stochastic Models of Traffic Assignment
CF Daganzo, Y Sheffi
Transportation Science 11(3):253-274, 1977

Traffic Equilibrium and Variational Inequalities
S Dafermos
Transportation Science 14(1):42-54, 1980

A Maximum Expected Covering Location Model: Formulation, Properties and Heuristic Solution
MS Daskin
Transportation Science 17(1):48-70, 1983

Network Design and Transportation Planning: Models and Algorithms
TL Magnanti, RT Wong
Transportation Science 18(1):1-55, 1984

The Distance Traveled to Visit N Points with a Maximum of C Stops per Vehicle: An Analytic Model and an Application
CF Daganzo
Transportation Science 18(4):331-350, 1984

A Column Generation Approach to the Urban Transit Crew Scheduling Problem
M Desrochers, F Soumis
Transportation Science 23(1):1-13, 1989

The General Pickup and Delivery Problem
MWP Savelsbergh, M Sol
Transportation Science 29(1):17-29, 1995

A Tabu Search Heuristic for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows
É Taillard, P Badeau, M Gendreau, F Guertin, JY Potvin
Transportation Science 31(2):170-186, 1997

Flight String Models for Aircraft Fleeting and Routing
C Barnhart, NL Boland, LW Clarke, EL Johnson, GL Nemhauser, RG Shenoi
Transportation Science 32(3):208-220, 1998

A Joint Location-Inventory Model
ZJM Shen, C Coullard, MS Daskin
Transportation Science 37(1):40-55, 2003

Self-Organized Pedestrian Crowd Dynamics: Experiments, Simulations, and Design Solutions
D Helbing, L Buzna, A Johansson, T Werner
Transportation Science 39(1):1-24, 2005