The electrification of bus fleets gives rise to a number of operational challenges that must be addressed in order to bring the advantages of this drive technology onto the streets. In particular, limited driving ranges and limited recharge capacities, recharge …
Railway Optimization advances to Edelman Award Finals
Team Deutsche Bahn has advanced to the finals of the 2020 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award Competition, the most prestigious international Operations Research Competition. The final winner will be chosen from the six finalists Amazon, Carnival, Deutsche Bahn, IBM, Intel, and …
Usergroup optimization visits Norgesbuss in Oslo
This year’s autumn meetiing led the Usergroup Optimization to the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Norgesbuss, a company of the Torghatten Group, hosted the convention in their headquarters at Rosenholm Campus on the first day, while the participants also got to …
BAG and LBW are intensifying cooperation
The BAG and LBW are intensifying the cooperation for the development and use of mathematical optimization algorithms for the German toll system The German Federal Office for Goods Transport (BAG) controls one of the most modern tolling systems, which handles …
[RotOR 3.4 by LBW] @ DB Fernverkehr AG
The [Rot]ation [O]ptimizer for [R]ailways (RotOR) developed at Zuse Institut Berlin is now maintained and further improved by LBW Optimization GmbH. RotOR is based on several novel mathematical programming ideas, e.g., a hypergraph model of railway operations as well as …
13.06.2018 LBW in MODAL.RailLab @ CeBit 2018
The BMBF Research Campus MODAL displays the results of its RailLab at this years CeBit on June 11 to 15, 2018. LBW participates with its rail rotation optimizer R-OPT. Dr. Thomas Schlechte is pleased to present the tool to you on …
User Group Optimization meets in Berlin
Following the IVU User Forum 2018, the User Group Optimization met to discuss current topics like treatment of unmanned turnaround times, adaptation optimization, and electrobus optimization. The physical well being was addressed at the evening session in the “Trattoria del …
LBW @ IT for Rail
On June 26th and 27th, 2017, the international management conference IT for Rail took place in the premises of DB Regio at Potsdamer Platz. About 30 top managers of several European railways debated the challenges and opportunities of digitization for …
Meet us at OR2017 in Berlin
OR2017 will take place in Berlin, Germany, September 6 – 8, 2017 at the Freie Universität Berlin. It is the annual international conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR). It is a conference for practitioners and academics from mathematics, …