Transport and Mobility Laboratory

Directed by Michel Bierlaire, the Transport and Mobility Laboratory is active in modeling, optimization and simulation of transportation systems, with a specific emphasis on the mobility of individuals.

“Now you can go almost everywhere by train in Europe,"says Alain Azzi. © DR

Alain Azzi: public transport, puzzles and praise

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Alain Azzi – a recent mechanical engineering graduate from EPFL – has won the 2020 LITRA Award for his Master’s thesis on making Lausanne’s bus system fully electric by 2030. And he’s grateful to EPFL for the experience.

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INFORMS Best Paper Award

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The paper “A Two-Stage Route Optimization Algorithm for Light Aircraft Transport Systems”, by Sharif Azadeh, S., Bierlaire, M., and Maknoon, Y., published in Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies in 2019, has won the 2019 Minority Issues Best Paper Competition organized by INFORMS, the leading international association for Operations Research and Analytics professionals. 

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Dr Yuki Oyama appointed Assistant Professor

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Dr. Yuki Oyama has been appointed a project assistant professor at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Japan. He will join the group in October 2019.

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