Scheduling, Optimisation and Forecasting
Areas include:
- Strategic passenger rail policy and strategy;
- Passenger rail demand forecasting;
- Passenger rail service design and development;
- Rail investment appraisal and evaluation;
- Station design and planning;
- Rail user market research;
- Travel demand management in railways;
- Telecommunications, wireless communications and signal processing
- Scheduling and optimisation for large scale industrial applications, including high performance combinatorial optimisation algorithms, parallel matheuristics and network optimisation;
- Mathematical optimisation;
- Container Logistics;
- Operations research, using mathematical optimisation;
- Infrastructure planning;
- Vehicle scheduling;
- Some simulation modelling;
- Heavy rail logistics;
- Rail policy, business strategy.
- Single line track scheduling and locomotive scheduling;
- Algorithms for variants of fixed interval scheduling problems;
- Algorithms for scheduling with sequence dependent processing times;
- Optimal content placement for large scale VoD systems;
- Optimising container terminal operations;
- Solving variants of hub location models;
- Multiprocessor task scheduling;
- Personnel scheduling and rostering;
- Decomposition algorithms;
- Focus on Intermodal to synchro-modal;
- Modelling and software platforms for planning, and
- Constraints Programming, Hybrid Techniques, Transport Applications.
