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 …
Usergroup Optimization Meets at Transdev in Husum
The usergroup optimization convened for this year’s second annual meeting on 2018, September 27/28 in Husum, hosted by transdev Maintenance GmbH. The 19 participants from Germany, Luxemburg, Norway, and Switzerland discussed a wide variety of topics including usability, idle turns, …
[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 …
New Handbook of Optimization in the Railway Industry
A new “Handbook of Optimization in the Railway Industry” is available in the International Series in Operations Research & Management Science by Springer. Edited by Ralf Borndörfer, Torsten Klug, Leonardo Lamorgese, Carlo Mannino, Markus Reuther and Thomas Schlechte, the book …
LBW @ Research Campus MODAL
The research campus MODAL held its 4th general assembly at the premises of Zuse Institute Berlin. LBW participates in the RailLab of MODAL with a project on the continued development of its rotation optimizer R-OPT. It aims at full parallelization …
UG Optimization visits OVF in Nuremberg
The User Group Optimization is meeting at Nuremberg on September 26 to 28, hosted by Omnibusverkehr Franken GmbH. The program featuers the newest developments in the areas of vehicle, duty, and integrated optimization as well as a hands-on workshop on …
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 …