Earliest arrival flows on series‐parallel graphs

We present an exact algorithm for computing an earliest arrival flow in a discrete time setting on series-parallel graphs. In contrast to previous results for the earliest arrival flow problem this algorithm runs in polynomial time. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. NETWORKS, Vol. 57(2), 169–173 2011 © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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