Evolving Pacing Strategies for Team Pursuit Track Cycling

Markus Wagner, Jareth Day, Diora Jordan, Trent Kroeger, Frank Neumann


Team pursuit track cycling is a bicycle racing sport held on velodromes 
and is part of the Summer Olympics. It involves the use of strategies 
to minimize the overall time that a team of cyclists needs to complete 
a race. We present an optimisation framework for team pursuit track 
cycling and show how to evolve strategies using metaheuristics for this
interesting real-world problem. Our experimental results show that 
these heuristics lead to significantly better strategies than 
state-of-art strategies that are currently used by teams of cyclists.