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Freight railway network design problem

Michel Bierlaire, Virginie Janine Camille Lurkin, Nikola Obrenovic

In freight railway networks, commodities are usually transported via hubs, which are called marshaling or shunting yards, depending on their capacity. Consequently, the number and locations of these yards effect the transport costs to a great extent. The ...

2018

BUSINESS TRAVELLER . How pod planes could change travel forever

Futuristic and disruptive There are several independent initiatives exploring the feasibility of modular planes, which could transform the way people and cargo travel. One of these revolutionary aircraft designs, called Clip-Air, has been created by Switze ...

2018

Assessing the usage and level-of-service of pedestrian facilities in train stations: A Swiss case study

Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci, Flurin Silvan Hänseler

A framework for assessing the usage and level-of-service of rail access facilities is presented. It consists of two parts. A dynamic demand estimator allows to obtain time-dependent pedestrian origin-destination demand within walking facilities. Using that ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Assessing the usage and level-of-service of pedestrian facilities in train stations: A Swiss case study

Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci, Flurin Silvan Hänseler

A framework for assessing the usage and level-of-service of rail access facilities is presented. It consists of two parts. A dynamic demand estimator allows to obtain time-dependent origin-destination flows within pedestrian facilities. Using that demand, ...

2015

Taste heterogeneity and latent preferences in the choice behaviour of freight transport operators

Michel Bierlaire

In this paper we show that individual attitudes of road carriers and their latent preferences toward specific freight service attributes do play a role in determining their mode choices. Specifically, we contribute to the empirical literature on freight ag ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2013

30 years of railway liberalization: what does it mean for us?

Matthias Finger

The aim of this text is to crystallize the challenges of European railway liberalization for Switzerland, as well as for the railway freight. In order to do that, I will proceed in three steps: I will first recall European railway liberalization. I will th ...

2012

Exact and heuristic methods to solve the berth allocation problem in bulk ports

Michel Bierlaire, Ilaria Vacca, Nitish Umang

While significant contributions have been made in the use of operations research methods and techniques to optimize container terminals, relatively less attention has been directed to bulk ports. In this paper, we consider the problem of allocating vessels ...

2012

Un noeud de trafic densifié pour l'EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg

Martin Wyss

Today's airports aren't anymore pure interfaces between ground and air. Since several years they are going through an intense development. Their ground and air accessibility attracts real estate development and (re-) links the region it is implemented in. ...

2011

Renewable energy solutions for Clip-Air project

Benjamin Vuitel

The concept of passenger air transport has not changed since its beginning. However it has to transport more and more people. Clip-Air provides a revolutionary concept for air transport by carrying up to three capsules (about an A320 without wings and tail ...

2011

Experience of Optimizing Fueling Decisions for Locomotives in Railroad Networks

Michel Bierlaire, Prem Kumar

Even though rail transportation is one of the most fuel efficient forms of surface transportation, fueling costs are the single highest operating cost head for railroad companies. For larger companies with several thousands of miles of rail network, the fu ...

2011

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