Michel Bierlaire
Full Professor
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Citizenship : Belgium & Switzerland
Birth date : 09.02.1967
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Fields of expertise
Transportation analysis
Operations Research
Discrete choice models
Nonlinear optimization
Operations Research
Discrete choice models
Nonlinear optimization
Affiliations
- Full Professor, Transport and Mobility Laboratory,
Institute of Urban and Regional Planning & Design,
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland. - Director, Transportation Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland.
- Director, Doctoral Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Switzerland.
- Research Affiliate, Dpt of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Ma., USA
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Biography
Born in 1967, Michel Bierlaire holds a PhD in Mathematical Sciences from the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium (University of Namur). Between 1995 and 1998, he was research associate and project manager at the Intelligent Transportation Systems Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Ma, USA). Between 1998 and 2006, he was a junior faculty in the Operations Research group ROSO within the Institute of Mathematics at EPFL. In 2006, he was appointed associate professor in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering at EPFL, where he became the director of the Transport and Mobility laboratory. Since 2009, he is the director of TraCE, the Transportation Center. From 2009 to 2017, he was the director of Doctoral Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering at EPFL. In 2012, he was appointed full professor at EPFL. Since September 2017, he is the head of the Civil Engineering Institute at EPFL.
His main expertise is in the design, development and applications of models and algorithms for the design, analysis and management of transportation systems. Namely, he has been active in demand modeling (discrete choice models, estimation of origin-destination matrices), operations research (scheduling, assignment, etc.) and Dynamic Traffic Management Systems.
As of October 2019, he has published 123 papers in international journals, 4 books, 39 book chapters, 184 articles in conference proceedings, 163 technical reports, and has given 191 scientific seminars. His ISI h-index is 31. His Google Scholar h-index is 61.
He is the founder, organizer and lecturer of the EPFL Advanced Continuing Education Course "Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Demand and Market Shares".
He is the founder of hEART: the European Association for Research in Transportation.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics. He is an Associate Editor of Operations Research. He is the editor of two special issues for the journal Transportation Research Part C. He has been member of the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of Transportation Research Part B since 1995, of Transportation Research Part C since January 1, 2006.
His main expertise is in the design, development and applications of models and algorithms for the design, analysis and management of transportation systems. Namely, he has been active in demand modeling (discrete choice models, estimation of origin-destination matrices), operations research (scheduling, assignment, etc.) and Dynamic Traffic Management Systems.
As of October 2019, he has published 123 papers in international journals, 4 books, 39 book chapters, 184 articles in conference proceedings, 163 technical reports, and has given 191 scientific seminars. His ISI h-index is 31. His Google Scholar h-index is 61.
He is the founder, organizer and lecturer of the EPFL Advanced Continuing Education Course "Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Demand and Market Shares".
He is the founder of hEART: the European Association for Research in Transportation.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of the EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics. He is an Associate Editor of Operations Research. He is the editor of two special issues for the journal Transportation Research Part C. He has been member of the Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) of Transportation Research Part B since 1995, of Transportation Research Part C since January 1, 2006.
Miscellaneous responsibilities
as of June 2016
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Transportation Research Part B (since January 01, 1995)
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, European Transport, Quarterly Journal of Transport Law, Economics and Engineering (since February 01, 2005)
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Transportation Research Part C (since January 01, 2006)
- Director of the Transport and Mobility Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (since July 01, 2006)
- Associate Editor, Journal of Choice Modelling (since June 01, 2007)
- Member of the Scientific Council, Centre for Transport Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (since March 06, 2009)
- Director, Transportation Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (since May 06, 2009)
- Director of the Doctoral Program in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (since January 01, 2010)
- Editor-in-Chief, EURO Journal on Transport and Logistics (since February 01, 2011)
- Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research (since November 08, 2011)
- Associate Editor, Operations Research (since January 01, 2012)
- Member of the research council, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Bern, Switzerland (since January 01, 2015)
- Member of the Academic Promotion Committee, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (since April 01, 2015)
- Member of the scientific advisory board, CIRRELT (Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation, Québec, Canada (since January 01, 2016)
- External expert, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Bern, Switzerland (since February 01, 2016) [RailFit 20/30 Project]
Professional course
Full Professor
Transport and Mobility Laboratory
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne
2012-present
Associate Professor
Transport and Mobility Laboratory, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Ecole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne
2006-2012
Ma�tre d'enseignement et de recherche
Operations Research Group ROSO
Ecole Polytechnique F�d�rale de Lausanne
1998-2006
Research Associate - Project Manager
Intelligent Transportation Systems Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1995-1998
Research Assistant
Transportation Research Group
Facult�s Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix (University of Namur), Belgium
1988-1995
Education
Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical models for transportation demand analysis
Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium
1996
Publications
Infoscience publications
Journal Articles
2020
Trajectory Data Analysis on the Spatial and Temporal Influence of Pedestrian Flow on Path Planning Decision
Sustainability. 2020-12-01. DOI : 10.3390/su122410419.Estimation of discrete choice models with hybrid stochastic adaptive batch size algorithms
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2020-08-22. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocm.2020.100226.Design and analysis of control strategies for pedestrian flows
Transportation. 2020-05-16. DOI : 10.1007/s11116-020-10111-1.Overcapacity in European power systems: Analysis and robust optimization approach
Applied Energy. 2020-02-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113970.Operational route choice methodologies for practical applications
Transportation. 2020-02-01. DOI : 10.1007/s11116-017-9849-0.Decision support for strategic energy planning: A robust optimization framework
European Journal Of Operational Research. 2020-01-16. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.06.015.Can regional railway become emission-free with recently announced vehicles? - A case study of Bavaria
EJTIR. 2020. DOI : 10.18757/ejtir.2020.20.4.5439.Waste collection inventory routing with non-stationary stochastic demands
Computers & Operations Research. 2020-01-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.cor.2019.104798.Bayesian estimation of mixed multinomial logit models: Advances and simulation-based evaluations
Transportation Research Part B-Methodological. 2020-01-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2019.12.001.2019
Electrification of urban mobility: The case of catenary-free buses
Transport Policy. 2019-08-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.05.006.Multiclass Speed-Density Relationship for Pedestrian Traffic
Transportation Science. 2019-05-01. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.2018.0849.Airline customers connection time preferences in domestic U.S. markets
Journal of Air Transport Management. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2019.101688.A Two-Stage Route Optimization Algorithm for Light Aircraft Transport Systems
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2019.01.028.2018
Train timetable design under elastic passenger demand
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART B-METHODOLOGICAL. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2018.03.002.A unified framework for rich routing problems with stochastic demands
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART B-METHODOLOGICAL. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2018.05.015.Modeling purchases of new cars: an analysis of the 2014 French market
Theory and Decision. 2018. DOI : 10.1007/s11238-017-9631-y.Data-driven spatio-temporal discretization for pedestrian flow characterization
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2017.08.026.A quasi-equilibrium approach for market clearing in land use microsimulations
Environment and Planning B. 2018. DOI : 10.1177/2399808317719071.2017
Introduction to Disaggregate Demand Models
INFORMS Tutorial. 2017. DOI : 10.1287/educ.2017.0169.Exogenous priority rules for the capacitated passenger assignment problem
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2017.08.022.Data-driven spatio-temporal discretization for pedestrian flow characterization
Transportation Research Procedia. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.trpro.2017.05.012.Mitigating the impact of errors in travel time reporting on mode choice modelling
Journal of Transport Geography. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2017.05.016.Characterization of input uncertainties in strategic energy planning models
Applied energy. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.05.106.Needed reduction in mobility energy consumption to meet the goal of a 2000-watt society
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.tra.2017.05.010.Network design of a transport system based on accelerating moving walkways
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2017.04.016.The study of the unidirectional quay crane scheduling problem: complexity and risk-aversion
European Journal of Operational Research. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2017.01.007.The multi-objective railway timetable rescheduling problem
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2017.02.001.An exploration of moving walkways as a transport system in urban centers
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research. 2017. DOI : 10.18757/ejtir.2017.17.2.3190.Hybrid Cyclicity: Combining The Benefits Of Cyclic And Non-Cyclic Timetables
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2016.12.015.A dynamic network loading model for anisotropic and congested pedestrian flows
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2016.10.017.Estimation of pedestrian origin-destination demand in train stations
Transportation Science. 2017. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.2016.0723.Real-time management of berth allocation with stochastic arrival and handling times
Journal of Scheduling. 2017. DOI : 10.1007/s10951-016-0480-2.2016
Correcting for endogeneity due to omitted attitudes: Empirical assessment of a modified MIS method using RP mode choice data
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocm.2016.09.001.Revisiting the Route Choice Problem: A Modeling Framework Based on Mental Representations
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocm.2016.06.001.Probabilistic speed-density relationship for pedestrian traffic
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2016.04.002.Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2016.04.003.Assessing the usage and level-of-service of pedestrian facilities in train stations: A Swiss case study
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.tra.2016.05.010.Location choice with longitudinal WiFi data
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocm.2016.04.003.Robust optimization for strategic energy planning
Informatica. 2016. DOI : 10.15388/Informatica.2016.103.Integrating a heterogeneous fixed fleet and a flexible assignment of destination depots in the waste collection VRP with intermediate facilities
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2015.12.004.2015
Introducing a preliminary Consists Selection in the Locomotive Assignment Problem
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.tre.2015.07.003.Specification of the cross-nested logit model with sampling of alternatives for route choice models
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2015.07.005.Simulation and optimization: a short review
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2015.01.004.Optimizing Fueling Decisions for Locomotives in Railroad Networks
Transportation Science. 2015. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.2013.0479.Probabilistic multimodal map-matching with rich smartphone data
Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2015. DOI : 10.1080/15472450.2013.764796.2014
Pedestrian-oriented Flow Characterization
Transportation Research Procedia. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.trpro.2014.09.032.Association Generation in Synthetic Population for Transportation Applications: Graph-Theoretic Solution
Transportation Research Record. 2014. DOI : 10.3141/2429-05.A macroscopic loading model for time-varying pedestrian flows in public walking areas
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2014.08.003.Multidimensional Indicator Analysis for Transport Policy Evaluation
Transportation Research Record. 2014. DOI : 10.3141/2430-09.A Bayesian Approach to Detect Pedestrian Destination-Sequences from WiFi Signatures
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2014.03.015.Integrating psychometric indicators in latent class choice models
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.tra.2014.03.010.A Branch-and-Price Algorithm to Solve the Integrated Berth Allocation and Yard Assignment Problem in Bulk Ports
European Journal of Operational Research. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.08.015.Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles: accounting for attitudes and perceptions
Transportation Science. 2014. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.2013.0487.Robust Real-time Pedestrians Detection in Urban Environments with a Network of Low Resolution Cameras
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2013.11.019.Multi-Objective Airport Gate Assignment Problem in Planning and Operations
Journal of Advanced Transportation. 2014. DOI : 10.1002/atr.1235.Estimation of bid functions for location choice and price modeling with a latent variable approach
Networks and Spatial Economics. 2014. DOI : 10.1007/s11067-013-9200-z.Associations among Household Characteristics, Vehicle Characteristics and Emissions Failures: An Application of Targeted Marketing Data
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.tra.2013.11.005.Using semi-open questions to integrate perceptions in choice models
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocm.2013.12.001.An integrated airline scheduling, fleeting and pricing model for a monopolized market
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. 2014. DOI : 10.1111/mice.12032.2013
Taste heterogeneity and latent preferences in the choice behaviour of freight transport operators
Transport Policy. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.tranpol.2013.08.002.A simulation-based optimization framework for urban transportation problems
Operations Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1287/opre.2013.1226.Within Individual Variation in Preferences: Equity Effects of Congestion Charges
Transportation Research Record. 2013. DOI : 10.3141/2382-11.Attitudes towards mode choice in Switzerland
disP - The Planning Review. 2013. DOI : 10.1080/02513625.2013.827518.Choice Probability Generating Functions
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocm.2013.05.002.Metropolis-Hastings sampling of paths
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2012.11.002.Selected papers from the seventh Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN VII)
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2012.12.001.Sample and Pixel Weighting Strategies for Robust Incremental Visual Tracking
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/TCSVT.2013.2249374.Exact and Heuristic Methods to Solve the Berth Allocation Problem in Bulk Ports
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.tre.2013.03.003.An empirical comparison of travel choice models that capture preferences for compromise alternatives
Transportation. 2013. DOI : 10.1007/s11116-012-9444-3.An exact algorithm for the integrated planning of berth allocation and quay crane assignment
Transportation Science. 2013. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.1120.0428.Impact analysis of a flexible air transportation system
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research. 2013. DOI : 10.18757/ejtir.2013.13.2.2993.A Probabilistic Map Matching Method for Smartphone GPS data
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2012.08.001.2012
Modeling the behavior of investors
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/S1755-5345(13)70054-X.An analysis of destination choice for opaque airline products using multidimensional binary logit models
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.tra.2012.08.009.Happiness and Travel Mode Switching: Findings from a Swiss Public Transportation Experiment
Transport Policy. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.tranpol.2011.09.009.Scale Invariant Feature Transform on the Sphere: Theory and Applications
International Journal of Computer Vision. 2012. DOI : 10.1007/s11263-011-0505-4.A tractable analytical model for large-scale congested protein synthesis networks
European Journal of Operational Research. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2011.10.037.2011
Dynamic network loading: a differentiable model that derives link state distributions
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2011.05.014.Dynamic facial expression recognition with a discrete choice model
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/S1755-5345(13)70059-9.Bayesian demand calibration for dynamic traffic simulations
Transportation Science. 2011. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.1100.0367.Uncertainty Feature Optimization: an implicit paradigm for problems with noisy data
Networks. 2011. DOI : 10.1002/net.20428.2010
An analysis of the implicit choice set generation using the Constrained Multinomial Logit model
Transportation Research Record. 2010. DOI : 10.3141/2175-11.Modelling human perception of static facial expressions
Image and Vision Computing. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.10.003.Disaggregate Models with Aggregate Data: Two UrbanSim Applications
Journal of Transport and Land Use. 2010. DOI : 10.5198/jtlu.v3i2.113.Constraint-specific recovery networks for solving airline recovery problems
Computers & Operations Research. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.cor.2009.08.006.Development of Prototype UrbanSim Models
Environment and Planning B. 2010. DOI : 10.1068/b35107.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization
INFORMS Journal of Computing. 2010. DOI : 10.1287/ijoc.1090.0343.Cascade of Descriptors to Detect and Track Objects Across Any Network of Cameras
Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.cviu.2010.01.004.2009
Sampling of Alternatives for Route Choice Modeling
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2009.03.001.Specification, estimation and validation of a pedestrian walking behavior model
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2008.06.010.Discrete choice models with multiplicative error terms
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2008.10.004.Selected papers from the Triennial symposium on transportation analysis (TRISTAN), Phuket, Thailand, June 1115, 2007, Special Issue of Transportation Research Part C
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2008.12.001.An analytic finite capacity queueing network model capturing the propagation of congestion and blocking
European Journal of Operational Research. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.04.035.Dealing with singularities in nonlinear unconstrained optimization
European Journal of Operational Research. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.02.036.Geometric Video Approximation Using Weighted Matching Pursuit
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 2009. DOI : 10.1109/TIP.2009.2021315.BOOSTERS: a derivative-free algorithm based on radial basis functions
International Journal of Modelling and Simulation. 2009. DOI : 10.2316/Journal.205.2009.1.205-4634.2008
Halton Sampling for Image Registration Based on Mutual Information
Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing. 2008.The estimation of Generalized Extreme Value models from choice-based samples
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2008. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2007.09.003.Income and distance elasticities of values of travel time savings: new Swiss results
Transport Policy. 2008. DOI : 10.1016/j.tranpol.2008.02.001.Route choice modeling with network-free data
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2008. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2007.07.007.A doped derivative-free algorithm
International Journal of Modelling and Simulation. 2008. DOI : 10.2316/Journal.205.2008.4.205-4660.2007
A systematic comparison of continuous and discrete mixture models
European Transport. 2007.Modeling Learning in Route Choice
Transportation Research Record. 2007. DOI : 10.3141/2014-01.A multi-iterate method to solve systems of nonlinear equations
European Journal of Operational Research. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.09.080.A practical test for the choice of mixing distribution in discrete choice models
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2007.01.002.Normalization and correlation of cross-nested logit models
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2006.11.006.Capturing correlation with subnetworks in route choice models
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2006.06.003.A new derivative-free algorithm for the medical image registration problem
International Journal of Modelling and Simulation. 2007. DOI : 10.2316/Journal.205.2007.2.205-4367.2006
Patient flow simulation as a tool for estimating policy impact
Swiss Medical Informatics. 2006.Behavioral priors for detection and tracking of pedestrians in video sequences
International Journal of Computer Vision. 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s11263-005-4797-0.Analysis of driver's response to real-time information in Switzerland
European Transport. 2006.Solving noisy large scale fixed point problems and systems of nonlinear equations
Transportation Science. 2006. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.1050.0119.A General and Operational Representation of Generalised Extreme Value Models
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2006. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2005.03.003.Discrete choice models of pedestrian walking behavior
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2006. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2005.09.006.A theoretical analysis of the cross-nested logit model
Annals of Operations Research. 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s10479-006-0015-x.Infoscience
Trajectory Data Analysis on the Spatial and Temporal Influence of Pedestrian Flow on Path Planning Decision
Sustainability. 2020-12-01. DOI : 10.3390/su122410419.Estimation of discrete choice models with hybrid stochastic adaptive batch size algorithms
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2020-08-22. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocm.2020.100226.Design and analysis of control strategies for pedestrian flows
Transportation. 2020-05-16. DOI : 10.1007/s11116-020-10111-1.Overcapacity in European power systems: Analysis and robust optimization approach
Applied Energy. 2020-02-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.113970.Operational route choice methodologies for practical applications
Transportation. 2020-02-01. DOI : 10.1007/s11116-017-9849-0.Decision support for strategic energy planning: A robust optimization framework
European Journal Of Operational Research. 2020-01-16. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2019.06.015.Can regional railway become emission-free with recently announced vehicles? - A case study of Bavaria
EJTIR. 2020. DOI : 10.18757/ejtir.2020.20.4.5439.Waste collection inventory routing with non-stationary stochastic demands
Computers & Operations Research. 2020-01-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.cor.2019.104798.Bayesian estimation of mixed multinomial logit models: Advances and simulation-based evaluations
Transportation Research Part B-Methodological. 2020-01-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2019.12.001.Electrification of urban mobility: The case of catenary-free buses
Transport Policy. 2019-08-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.tranpol.2019.05.006.Multiclass Speed-Density Relationship for Pedestrian Traffic
Transportation Science. 2019-05-01. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.2018.0849.Airline customers connection time preferences in domestic U.S. markets
Journal of Air Transport Management. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2019.101688.A Two-Stage Route Optimization Algorithm for Light Aircraft Transport Systems
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2019.01.028.Train timetable design under elastic passenger demand
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART B-METHODOLOGICAL. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2018.03.002.A unified framework for rich routing problems with stochastic demands
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART B-METHODOLOGICAL. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2018.05.015.Modeling purchases of new cars: an analysis of the 2014 French market
Theory and Decision. 2018. DOI : 10.1007/s11238-017-9631-y.Data-driven spatio-temporal discretization for pedestrian flow characterization
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2017.08.026.A quasi-equilibrium approach for market clearing in land use microsimulations
Environment and Planning B. 2018. DOI : 10.1177/2399808317719071.Introduction to Disaggregate Demand Models
INFORMS Tutorial. 2017. DOI : 10.1287/educ.2017.0169.Exogenous priority rules for the capacitated passenger assignment problem
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2017.08.022.Data-driven spatio-temporal discretization for pedestrian flow characterization
Transportation Research Procedia. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.trpro.2017.05.012.Mitigating the impact of errors in travel time reporting on mode choice modelling
Journal of Transport Geography. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2017.05.016.Characterization of input uncertainties in strategic energy planning models
Applied energy. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.05.106.Needed reduction in mobility energy consumption to meet the goal of a 2000-watt society
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.tra.2017.05.010.Network design of a transport system based on accelerating moving walkways
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2017.04.016.The study of the unidirectional quay crane scheduling problem: complexity and risk-aversion
European Journal of Operational Research. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2017.01.007.The multi-objective railway timetable rescheduling problem
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2017.02.001.An exploration of moving walkways as a transport system in urban centers
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research. 2017. DOI : 10.18757/ejtir.2017.17.2.3190.Hybrid Cyclicity: Combining The Benefits Of Cyclic And Non-Cyclic Timetables
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2016.12.015.A dynamic network loading model for anisotropic and congested pedestrian flows
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2017. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2016.10.017.Estimation of pedestrian origin-destination demand in train stations
Transportation Science. 2017. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.2016.0723.Real-time management of berth allocation with stochastic arrival and handling times
Journal of Scheduling. 2017. DOI : 10.1007/s10951-016-0480-2.Correcting for endogeneity due to omitted attitudes: Empirical assessment of a modified MIS method using RP mode choice data
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocm.2016.09.001.Revisiting the Route Choice Problem: A Modeling Framework Based on Mental Representations
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocm.2016.06.001.Probabilistic speed-density relationship for pedestrian traffic
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2016.04.002.Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2016.04.003.Assessing the usage and level-of-service of pedestrian facilities in train stations: A Swiss case study
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.tra.2016.05.010.Location choice with longitudinal WiFi data
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocm.2016.04.003.Robust optimization for strategic energy planning
Informatica. 2016. DOI : 10.15388/Informatica.2016.103.Integrating a heterogeneous fixed fleet and a flexible assignment of destination depots in the waste collection VRP with intermediate facilities
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2015.12.004.Introducing a preliminary Consists Selection in the Locomotive Assignment Problem
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.tre.2015.07.003.Specification of the cross-nested logit model with sampling of alternatives for route choice models
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2015.07.005.Simulation and optimization: a short review
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2015. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2015.01.004.Optimizing Fueling Decisions for Locomotives in Railroad Networks
Transportation Science. 2015. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.2013.0479.Probabilistic multimodal map-matching with rich smartphone data
Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2015. DOI : 10.1080/15472450.2013.764796.Pedestrian-oriented Flow Characterization
Transportation Research Procedia. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.trpro.2014.09.032.Association Generation in Synthetic Population for Transportation Applications: Graph-Theoretic Solution
Transportation Research Record. 2014. DOI : 10.3141/2429-05.A macroscopic loading model for time-varying pedestrian flows in public walking areas
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2014.08.003.Multidimensional Indicator Analysis for Transport Policy Evaluation
Transportation Research Record. 2014. DOI : 10.3141/2430-09.A Bayesian Approach to Detect Pedestrian Destination-Sequences from WiFi Signatures
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2014.03.015.Integrating psychometric indicators in latent class choice models
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.tra.2014.03.010.A Branch-and-Price Algorithm to Solve the Integrated Berth Allocation and Yard Assignment Problem in Bulk Ports
European Journal of Operational Research. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2013.08.015.Forecasting the demand for electric vehicles: accounting for attitudes and perceptions
Transportation Science. 2014. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.2013.0487.Robust Real-time Pedestrians Detection in Urban Environments with a Network of Low Resolution Cameras
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2013.11.019.Multi-Objective Airport Gate Assignment Problem in Planning and Operations
Journal of Advanced Transportation. 2014. DOI : 10.1002/atr.1235.Estimation of bid functions for location choice and price modeling with a latent variable approach
Networks and Spatial Economics. 2014. DOI : 10.1007/s11067-013-9200-z.Associations among Household Characteristics, Vehicle Characteristics and Emissions Failures: An Application of Targeted Marketing Data
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.tra.2013.11.005.Using semi-open questions to integrate perceptions in choice models
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2014. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocm.2013.12.001.An integrated airline scheduling, fleeting and pricing model for a monopolized market
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering. 2014. DOI : 10.1111/mice.12032.Taste heterogeneity and latent preferences in the choice behaviour of freight transport operators
Transport Policy. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.tranpol.2013.08.002.A simulation-based optimization framework for urban transportation problems
Operations Research. 2013. DOI : 10.1287/opre.2013.1226.Within Individual Variation in Preferences: Equity Effects of Congestion Charges
Transportation Research Record. 2013. DOI : 10.3141/2382-11.Attitudes towards mode choice in Switzerland
disP - The Planning Review. 2013. DOI : 10.1080/02513625.2013.827518.Choice Probability Generating Functions
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.jocm.2013.05.002.Metropolis-Hastings sampling of paths
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2012.11.002.Selected papers from the seventh Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN VII)
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2012.12.001.Sample and Pixel Weighting Strategies for Robust Incremental Visual Tracking
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 2013. DOI : 10.1109/TCSVT.2013.2249374.Exact and Heuristic Methods to Solve the Berth Allocation Problem in Bulk Ports
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.tre.2013.03.003.An empirical comparison of travel choice models that capture preferences for compromise alternatives
Transportation. 2013. DOI : 10.1007/s11116-012-9444-3.An exact algorithm for the integrated planning of berth allocation and quay crane assignment
Transportation Science. 2013. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.1120.0428.Impact analysis of a flexible air transportation system
European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research. 2013. DOI : 10.18757/ejtir.2013.13.2.2993.A Probabilistic Map Matching Method for Smartphone GPS data
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2013. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2012.08.001.Modeling the behavior of investors
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/S1755-5345(13)70054-X.An analysis of destination choice for opaque airline products using multidimensional binary logit models
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.tra.2012.08.009.Happiness and Travel Mode Switching: Findings from a Swiss Public Transportation Experiment
Transport Policy. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.tranpol.2011.09.009.Scale Invariant Feature Transform on the Sphere: Theory and Applications
International Journal of Computer Vision. 2012. DOI : 10.1007/s11263-011-0505-4.A tractable analytical model for large-scale congested protein synthesis networks
European Journal of Operational Research. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2011.10.037.Dynamic network loading: a differentiable model that derives link state distributions
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2011.05.014.Dynamic facial expression recognition with a discrete choice model
Journal of Choice Modelling. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/S1755-5345(13)70059-9.Bayesian demand calibration for dynamic traffic simulations
Transportation Science. 2011. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.1100.0367.Uncertainty Feature Optimization: an implicit paradigm for problems with noisy data
Networks. 2011. DOI : 10.1002/net.20428.An analysis of the implicit choice set generation using the Constrained Multinomial Logit model
Transportation Research Record. 2010. DOI : 10.3141/2175-11.Modelling human perception of static facial expressions
Image and Vision Computing. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.10.003.Disaggregate Models with Aggregate Data: Two UrbanSim Applications
Journal of Transport and Land Use. 2010. DOI : 10.5198/jtlu.v3i2.113.Constraint-specific recovery networks for solving airline recovery problems
Computers & Operations Research. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.cor.2009.08.006.Development of Prototype UrbanSim Models
Environment and Planning B. 2010. DOI : 10.1068/b35107.A heuristic for nonlinear global optimization
INFORMS Journal of Computing. 2010. DOI : 10.1287/ijoc.1090.0343.Cascade of Descriptors to Detect and Track Objects Across Any Network of Cameras
Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 2010. DOI : 10.1016/j.cviu.2010.01.004.Sampling of Alternatives for Route Choice Modeling
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2009.03.001.Specification, estimation and validation of a pedestrian walking behavior model
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2008.06.010.Discrete choice models with multiplicative error terms
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2008.10.004.Selected papers from the Triennial symposium on transportation analysis (TRISTAN), Phuket, Thailand, June 1115, 2007, Special Issue of Transportation Research Part C
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2008.12.001.An analytic finite capacity queueing network model capturing the propagation of congestion and blocking
European Journal of Operational Research. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.04.035.Dealing with singularities in nonlinear unconstrained optimization
European Journal of Operational Research. 2009. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.02.036.Geometric Video Approximation Using Weighted Matching Pursuit
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 2009. DOI : 10.1109/TIP.2009.2021315.BOOSTERS: a derivative-free algorithm based on radial basis functions
International Journal of Modelling and Simulation. 2009. DOI : 10.2316/Journal.205.2009.1.205-4634.Halton Sampling for Image Registration Based on Mutual Information
Sampling Theory in Signal and Image Processing. 2008.The estimation of Generalized Extreme Value models from choice-based samples
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2008. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2007.09.003.Income and distance elasticities of values of travel time savings: new Swiss results
Transport Policy. 2008. DOI : 10.1016/j.tranpol.2008.02.001.Route choice modeling with network-free data
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 2008. DOI : 10.1016/j.trc.2007.07.007.A doped derivative-free algorithm
International Journal of Modelling and Simulation. 2008. DOI : 10.2316/Journal.205.2008.4.205-4660.A systematic comparison of continuous and discrete mixture models
European Transport. 2007.Modeling Learning in Route Choice
Transportation Research Record. 2007. DOI : 10.3141/2014-01.A multi-iterate method to solve systems of nonlinear equations
European Journal of Operational Research. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.ejor.2006.09.080.A practical test for the choice of mixing distribution in discrete choice models
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2007.01.002.Normalization and correlation of cross-nested logit models
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2006.11.006.Capturing correlation with subnetworks in route choice models
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2007. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2006.06.003.A new derivative-free algorithm for the medical image registration problem
International Journal of Modelling and Simulation. 2007. DOI : 10.2316/Journal.205.2007.2.205-4367.Patient flow simulation as a tool for estimating policy impact
Swiss Medical Informatics. 2006.Behavioral priors for detection and tracking of pedestrians in video sequences
International Journal of Computer Vision. 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s11263-005-4797-0.Analysis of driver's response to real-time information in Switzerland
European Transport. 2006.Solving noisy large scale fixed point problems and systems of nonlinear equations
Transportation Science. 2006. DOI : 10.1287/trsc.1050.0119.A General and Operational Representation of Generalised Extreme Value Models
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2006. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2005.03.003.Discrete choice models of pedestrian walking behavior
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. 2006. DOI : 10.1016/j.trb.2005.09.006.A theoretical analysis of the cross-nested logit model
Annals of Operations Research. 2006. DOI : 10.1007/s10479-006-0015-x.Teaching & PhD
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Introduction to optimization and operations research
Introduction to major operations research models and optimization algorithmsMathematical modelling of behavior
MOOC
1. Introduction and examples
2. Choice theory
3. Binary choice
4. Multinomial choice
5. Specification testing
6. Prediction
Ex cathedra lectures
7. Nested Logit model
8. Multivariate extreme Value models
9. Sampling
10. Mixed models.
11. Choice models with latent variables.
12. Discrete choice and ma