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Cynthia Barnhart

Cynthia Barnhart

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
52
Citations
15443
World Ranking
861
National Ranking
370

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
52
Citations
15504
World Ranking
3539
National Ranking
1038

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • 2010 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For professional leadership, and for contributions to optimization and transportation models, algorithms, and applications.

Overview

Cynthia Barnhart is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Engineering and Social Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Transportation, Automotive Engineering, Management Science and Operations Research, and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their work covers several main topics in academic research:

  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Scheduling and Timetabling Solutions
  • Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
  • Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms

Notable recent publications include:

  • Course Scheduling Under Sudden Scarcity: Applications to Pandemic Planning, 2021, published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • Choice-Based Airline Schedule Design and Fleet Assignment: A Decomposition Approach, 2022, published in Transportation Science
  • The Tail Assignment Problem: A Case Study at Vueling Airlines, 2021, published in Transportation research procedia
  • A Novel Approach to the Tail Assignment Problem in Airline Planning, 2021, published in Transportation research procedia
  • Choice-Based Airline Schedule Design and Fleet Assignment: A Decomposition Approach, 2020, published in SSRN Electronic Journal

The frequent coauthors with whom Cynthia Barnhart has collaborated include:

  • Vikrant Vaze
  • Kayla Cummings
  • Özlem Ergün
  • Chiwei Yan
  • Manuel Fuentes

Their research appears predominantly in publication venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Transportation Science
  • Transportation research procedia
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

Cynthia Barnhart has been recognized with several professional honors, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017 and a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in 2011. Additionally, in 2010, they were elected as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering for professional leadership and contributions to optimization and transportation models, algorithms, and applications.

Best Publications

  • Branch-And-Price: Column Generation for Solving Huge Integer Programs

    Cynthia Barnhart;Ellis L. Johnson;George L. Nemhauser;Martin W. P. Savelsbergh

  • Consumption Self-Control by Rationing Purchase Quantities of Virtue and Vice

    Harry N. Newton;Cynthia Barnhart;Pamela H. Vance;Klaus Wertenbroch

  • The global airline industry

    Peter Belobaba;Amedeo R. Odoni;Cynthia Barnhart

  • The fleet assignment problem: Solving a large-scale integer program

    Christopher A. Hane;Cynthia Barnhart;Ellis L. Johnson;Roy E. Marsten

  • Flight String Models for Aircraft Fleeting and Routing

    Cynthia Barnhart;Natashia L. Boland;Lloyd W. Clarke;Ellis L. Johnson

  • Applications of Operations Research in the Air Transport Industry

    Cynthia Barnhart;Peter Belobaba;Amedeo R. Odoni

  • Planning for Robust Airline Operations: Optimizing Aircraft Routings and Flight Departure Times to Minimize Passenger Disruptions

    Shan Lan;John-Paul Clarke;Cynthia Barnhart

  • Using Branch-and-Price-and-Cut to Solve Origin-Destination Integer Multicommodity Flow Problems

    Cynthia Barnhart;Christopher A. Hane;Pamela H. Vance

  • Airline Schedule Planning: Integrated Models and Algorithms for Schedule Design and Fleet Assignment

    Manoj Lohatepanont;Cynthia Barnhart

  • Airline Crew Scheduling

    Cynthia Barnhart;Amy M. Cohn;Ellis L. Johnson;Diego Klabjan

  • Solving binary cutting stock problems by column generation and branch-and-bound

    Pamela H. Vance;Cynthia Barnhart;Ellis L. Johnson;George L. Nemhauser

  • Airline Crew Scheduling: A New Formulation and Decomposition Algorithm

    Pamela H. Vance;Cynthia Barnhart;Ellis L. Johnson;George L. Nemhauser

  • Flight operations recovery: New approaches considering passenger recovery

    Stephane Bratu;Cynthia Barnhart

  • Total Delay Impact Study: A Comprehensive Assessment of the Costs and Impacts of Flight Delay in the United States

    Michael Ball;Cynthia Barnhart;Martin Dresner;Mark Hansen

  • Itinerary-Based Airline Fleet Assignment

    Cynthia Barnhart;Timothy S. Kniker;Manoj Lohatepanont

  • Airline Fleet Assignment with Time Windows

    Brian Rexing;Cynthia Barnhart;Tim Kniker;Ahmad Jarrah

  • Comparing Optimal Relocation Operations With Simulated Relocation Policies in One-Way Carsharing Systems

    Diana Ramos Jorge;Gonçalo H. A. Correia;Cynthia Barnhart

  • Composite Variable Formulations for Express Shipment Service Network Design

    Andrew P. Armacost;Cynthia Barnhart;Keith A. Ware

  • Improving Crew Scheduling by Incorporating Key Maintenance Routing Decisions

    Amy Mainville Cohn;Cynthia Barnhart

  • Air Transportation: Irregular Operations and Control

    Michael O Ball;Cynthia Barnhart;George Nemhauser;Amedeo Odoni

Frequent Co-Authors

Ellis L. Johnson
Ellis L. Johnson Georgia Institute of Technology
George L. Nemhauser
George L. Nemhauser Georgia Institute of Technology
Michael O. Ball
Michael O. Ball University of Maryland, College Park
Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia
Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia Delft University of Technology
Martin W. P. Savelsbergh
Martin W. P. Savelsbergh Georgia Institute of Technology
Natashia Boland
Natashia Boland Georgia Institute of Technology
Rolf H. Möhring
Rolf H. Möhring Technical University of Berlin
David C. Parkes
David C. Parkes Harvard University

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