Create divide and conquer, dynamic programming, and greedy algorithms. Understand intractable problems, P vs NP and the use of integer programming solvers to tackle some of these problems.

Jiancheng Long, Wai Yuen Szeto, Link-Based System Optimum Dynamic Traffic Assignment Problems in General Networks, Operations Research, Vol. 67, No. 1 (January–February 2019), pp. 167-182 ...