Below you can find some selected publications by ECOPT members of the last five years.

2025

Jia Hui Zhu, Twan Dollevoet, and Dennis Huisman: "An Exact and Heuristic Framework for Rolling Stock Rescheduling with Railway Infrastructure Availability Constraints" (2025) Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 195:103189, download here.

2024

Bart van Rossum, Twan Dollevoet, and Dennis Huisman: "Railway Crew Planning with Fairness over Time" (2024) European Journal of Operational Research 318:1 pp. 55-70, download here.

Twan Dollevoet and Dennis Huisman: "Column Generation and Lagrangian Relaxation: Solving real-world crew (re)scheduling problems" (2024). In: F. Hamid (Ed.) Optimization Essentials: Theory, Tools, and Applications (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 353) pp. 297-323, Singapore: Springer; download here.

Marelot de Vos, Rolf van Lieshout, and Twan Dollevoet: "Electric Vehicle Scheduling in Public Transit with Capacitated Charging Stations" (2024) Transportation Science 58:2 pp. 279-294, download here.

2023

Twan Dollevoet and Remy Spliet: "Preprocessing to reduce vehicle capacity for routing problems" (2023) Operations Research Forum 4:42, download here.

Dennis Huisman, Marie Schmidt, Johann Hartleb & Markus Friedrich: "Modeling and Solving Line Planning with Mode Choice" (2023) Transportation Science 57:2, pp. 336-350, download here.

2022

Gert Jaap Polinder, Valentina Cacchiani, Marie Schmidt & Dennis Huisman:"An iterative heuristic for passenger-centric train timetabling with integrated adaption times" (2022) Computers and Operations Research 142:105740, download here.

Bart van Rossum: "A fast exact pricing algorithm for the railway crew scheduling problem" (2022) Operations Research Letters 50(6), 707-711, download here.

Ying Wang, Zheming Zhang, Dennis Huisman, Andrea D'Ariano & Jinchuan Zhang: "A Lagrangian relaxation approach based on a time-space-state network for railway crew scheduling" (2022) Computers and Industrial Engineering 172A:108509, download here.

Thomas Breugem, Twan Dollevoet, and Dennis Huisman: "Is Equality always desirable? Analyzing the Trade-Off between Fairness and Attractiveness in Crew Rostering" (2022) Management Science 68:4 pp. 2619-2641; download here.

Thomas Breugem, Bart van Rossum, Twan Dollevoet, and Dennis Huisman: "A Column Generation Approach for the Integrated Crew Re-Planning Problem" (2022) Omega 107:102555; download here.

2021

M.M. Dekker, R.N. van Lieshout, R.C. Ball, P.C. Bouman, S.C. Dekker, H.A. Dijkstra, R.M.P. Goverde, D. Huisman, D. Panja, A.A.M. Schaafsma and M. van den Akker: "A next step in disruption management: combining operations research and complexity science" (2021) Public Transport 14 pp. 5-26, download here.

R.N. van Lieshout, P.C. Bouman, M. van den Akker and D. Huisman: "A self-organizing policy for vehicle dispatching in public transitsystems with multiple lines" (2021) Transportation Research part B 152 pp. 46-64, download here.

Shyam Sundar Govindaraja Perumal, Twan Dollevoet, Dennis Huisman, Richard M Lusby, Jesper Larsen, and Morten Riis: "Solution Approaches for Integrated Vehicle and Crew Scheduling with Electric Buses" (2021) Computers & Operations Research 132:105268; download here.

Rowan Hoogervorst, Twan Dollevoet, Gábor Maróti, and Dennis Huisman: "A Variable Neighborhood Search Heuristic for Rolling Stock Rescheduling" (2021) EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics 10:100032; download here.

G.-J. Polinder, M.E. Schmidt and D. Huisman: "Timetabling for strategic passenger railway planning" (2021) Transportation Research part B 146 pp. 111-135, download here.

2020

Rowan Hoogervorst, Twan Dollevoet, Gábor Maróti, and Dennis Huisman: "Reducing Passenger Delays by Rolling Stock Rescheduling" (2020) Transportation Science 54:3 pp. 762-784; download here.

R.N. van Lieshout, P.C. Bouman and D. Huisman: "Determining and Evaluating Alternative Line Plans in (Near) Out-of-Control Situations" (2020) Transportation Science 54 pp. 740-761, download here.