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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, …

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[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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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mcf in SPEC CPU2017 Benchmarksuite

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has released its new CPU, memory, and compiler benchmarks. For the third time in a row, a special version of the min-cost flow solver MCF for vehicle scheduling is part of the new suite, …