Research projects

2022
  • The Elevator Dispatching Problem with Destination Control
  • E-Bike City
  • Migration and Discrete Choice Models (MIGDCM)
2020
  • Intelligent digital twins for assessing and predicting bridge road traffic demands
  • Activity scheduling an rhythmic style: multi-day modeling of mobility habits
  • Optimization of individual mobility plans to simulate future travel in Switzerland
2019
  • OrgVisionPro: Automated organizational design and optimization
  • Activity based travel demand forecasting
2018
  • PAM Personal Autonomous Moving platforms
  • Design of a car-free city center: a fringe parking system with accelerated moving walkways
  • Accessibility based optimization of educational infrastructure networks
2017
  • Incorporating competitors' behavior in demand based optimization models
  • Leveraging Public and Open Data for Transportation Mode detection
  • Network Design for SBB Cargo
  • Cost reduction using passenger centric timetabling
2016
  • Capacity building program in urban mobility and transportation
  • Incorporating advanced behavioral models in mixed integer linear optimization
  • TRANS-FORM: Smart transfers through unravelling urban form and travel flow dynamics
2015
  • myTOSA 2.0 - Enhanced simulation and optimization tool for cost-optimal deployment of TOSA electric buses
  • Demand-based facility location problem
    • Aug 01, 2015 - Dec 31, 2015
    • Sponsor: EDF
    • Principal investigator: Michel Bierlaire
    • Project manager: Shadi Sharif Azadeh
2014
  • Drive For You: a driving assistant tool to detecting pedestrians
  • Electric vehicle adoption dynamics: exploring market potentials
    • Apr 01, 2014 - Mar 31, 2017
    • Sponsor: Nissan
    • Principal investigator: Michel Bierlaire
    • Project manager: Matthieu de Lapparent
    • Collaborator: Anna Fernandez Antolin
  • Air navigation platform: flights planning by using real-time weather data
2013
  • PostCarWorld: A Trans-Discplinary Multi-Dimensional Stimulation
  • Revisiting the Route Choice Problem: A Multi-Level Modeling Framework for Route Choice Analysis Based On Latent Constructs
2012
  • Modular Logistics Units in Shared Co-modal Networks
  • Pedflux: Pedestrian flow modeling in train stations
  • A DYNAMIC VEHICLE CHOICE FORECASTING FRAMEWORK
  • Pedestrian dynamics: flows and behavior
  • myTOSA: catenary-free 100% electric urban public mass-transportation system
2011
  • L�man 2030: Flux pi�tons Gare de Lausanne
  • SIEU : Urban Energy Information System
  • ACTUM
  • Large scale robust optimization of bulk port operations.
2010
  • CLIP-AIR concept: Integrated schedule planning for a new generation of aircrafts
  • NRP 65: Sustainable Urban Patterns (SUPat)
  • Route choice models and smart phone data
  • Optimizing Staffing Plans at Airports
  • Robust Optimization of Railway Locomotive Assignment
  • Demande de consommateurs pour des v�hicules �lectriques
  • A Solution Technique for the Locomotive Refueling Problem
  • SURPRICE: Sustainable mobility through road user charging
  • SustainCity: Micro-simulation for the prospective of sustainable cities in Europe
  • Projet d'agglom�ration Lausanne-Morges - AFTPU - Fourniture d'indicateurs pour alimenter l'analyse multicrit�re pour le choix de la variante de la desserte Nord
    • Jan 01, 2010 - Jun 30, 2010
    • Sponsor: Service des routes et de la mobilité de la Commune de Lausanne
    • Principal investigator: Michel Bierlaire
    • Project manager: Jean-Pierre Leyvraz
2009
  • Models and methods for large scale optimization problems and applications in container terminals
  • D�pouillement des enqu�tes de mobilit� aux Hautes Ecoles
  • Methods and tools for supporting the use, calibration and validation of traffic simulation models
  • CATS City Alternative Transport System
  • OPTIMA: Inferring transport mode preferences from attitudes
2008
  • Disaggregate behavioral models exploiting data from Nokia devices
  • Simulation-based optimization of a railroad yard
  • NEARCTIS
  • Invariant features in omnidirectional images
  • A PrototypeTransportation Land-use Model for the Region of Lausanne, Switzerland
2007
  • SOPHOS: Simulation-based Optimization of the Performance in Hospital Operating suites
  • Column generation methods for the recovery of disrupted airline schedules
  • Behavioural modelling of human experts for scene analysis
  • Projet d'agglom�ration Lausanne-Morges - Axes forts de transports publics urbains - Mise au point des variantes, choix d'une variante pr�f�rentielle et d'un axe fort prioritaire.
  • Travaux de mod�lisation Emme2 en liens avec projets : SDOL (image directrice), desserte Le Mont, augmentation de capacit� m2
  • Syst�me d'informatique g�ographique pour l'observatoire de la mobilit�
  • Projet d'agglom�ration Lausanne-Morges, �valuation du projet et de ses mesures selon les crit�res �dict�s par la Conf�d�ration, travaux de mod�lisation avec le mod�le EMME2 (contrat CL/2007/02)
  • Projet d'agglom�ration Lausanne-Morges - Axes forts TC - Cadrage strat�gique et d�finition d'un r�seau d'axes forts (contrat FMa/2007/02)
  • Optimization of container terminal operations
2006
2005
  • SOPHOS: Simulation-based Optimization of the Performance in Hospital Operating Suites
  • Einbezug von Reisekosten bei der Modelliering des Mobilit�tsverhalten
  • Development of route choice models
2004
  • Enseignement orient� projet assist� par ordinateur
  • Mod�les de pr�vision de ventes (Sales forecasting models)
  • Optimization methods for advanced discrete choice models
  • Organisation des tourn�es de bus (Planning of school bus pick-up services)
2003
2002
2001
  • New algorithms for the route guidance generation problem
  • Algorithmes d'optimisation performants pour le recalage rigide d'images en radiochirurgie et en radioth�rapie st�r�otaxique fractionn�e assist�es par ordinateur
  • Plan de gestion du trafic: Etude pilote pour la Suisse Occidentale (traffic management plan: pilot survey in Western Switzerland)
2000
  • PAPABILES
  • Optimisation de grande taille sans d�riv�s (Large-scale derivate-free optimization)
1998
  • Development and Evaluation of DynaMIT, a real-time Dynamic Traffic Assignment system for traffic prediction and guidance generation