CALL FOR PAPERS: ORSA/TSS WORKSHOP.

The Operations Research Society of America/Transportation Science Section's (ORSA/TSS) Workshop "Automated Techniques for Scheduling of Vehicle Operators for Urban Public Transportation Services," seals with the development and application of automated techniques for the scheduling of vehicle operators for urban public transportation services. The Urban Mass Transportation Administration, American Transit Association, and Union Internationale des Transports Publics are cooperating with ORSA/TSS to assure the workshop's success. Authors are invited to propose papers dealing principally with the following areas, heuristic and mathematical programming approaches to the assignment of vehicle operators; strategies for crew rotation schedules; interactive computer methods; reviews of implementations of automated scheduling systems; costs and benefits of automated techniques; and comparisons with manual scheduling techniques. Short abstracts should reach by November 1, 1974 and full manuscripts by January 1, 1975.