Erasmus Center for Optimization in Public Transport (ECOPT)

The mission of ECOPT is to study planning problems that arise in public transport and to develop solution methods for these problems and software to support the planning processes.

The fact that we work in an academic environment guarantees that we are familiar with state-of-the-art techniques, while our contacts with public transport companies ensure that we know about the actual problems that these companies face in practice.

Latest News

Joris Wagenaar is a new member of ECOPT!
We want to draw your attention to the website www.ComPuTr.eu, that has been launched recently. On the website, you find information on the NWO project "Complexity in Public Transport", in which Evelien van der Hurk and Paul Bouman are involved.
Paul Bouman is a new member of ECOPT!
Several new papers have been published. You can find a list of publications of members of the center in the publications section.
Ilse Louwerse is a new member of ECOPT!
Lars Kjær Nielsen defended his Ph.D.-thesis on Rolling Stock Rescheduling in Passenger Railways. Articles about his research appeared in popular newspapers as the Algemeen Dagblad and Spits. It was also a headline on Nu.nl.
Twan Dollevoet and Marie Schmidt won the Student Paper Contest on Management Science in Railraod Applications with their paper "Delay Management with Re-Routing of Passengers". Co-authors of the paper are Dennis Huisman and Anita Schöbel. The contest was sponsored by the Railway Application Section of INFORMS. Twan presented the paper at the annual INFORMS meeting in Austin (Texas) on November 7th. Later that day, the award was presented to Twan by Michael Gorman.

The winning paper can be found in the publications section.