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Transport and Mobility Laboratory: yearly report 2024

TRANSP-OR

Teaching

Spring 2024

Decision-aid methodologies in transportation: Section(s): Civil Engineering; Lecturers: Fabian Torres, Evangelos Paschalidis; Teaching assistant: Tom Haering; Number of students: unknown
Introduction to Transportation Systems: Section(s): Civil Engineering; Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire; Teaching assistant: Marija Kukic , Negar Rezvany; Number of students: unknown
Optimization and Simulation: Section(s): Doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering; Lecturers: Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Léa Ricard, Pavel Ilinov; Number of students: unknown

PhD theses

Defense scheduled in 2024 or after and theses in progress

2024

Janody Pougala: OASIS : An integrated optimisation framework for activity scheduling; Co-supervisor: Tim Hillel; Committee: Prof D. Ruggiero (chair), Prof M. Bierlaire, Dr T. Hillel (supervisors), Prof K. Axhausen, Prof R. Moeckel, Prof P. Mokhtarian.; Exam: October 20, 2023; Defense: January 26, 2024

Ongoing

Alexis Gumy: Aux frontières de la mobilité. Vers la construction sociale des « bonnes manières » de se déplacer ?; Co-supervisor: Vincent Kaufmann
Marija Kukic: Modeling the activities of households
Cloe Cortes Balcells: Activity-based models and epidemics; Co-supervisor: Rico Krueger
Tom Haering: Algorithms for large scale choice-based optimization
Nicola Ortelli: Assisted specification of choice models
Negar Rezvany: Urban energy demand; Co-supervisor: Tim Hillel

PhD committees

Caroline Winkler: Measuring and modeling time use patterns in Switzerland; ETHZ, Switzerland; April 09, 2024
Nikita Gusarov: Performance of econometric and Machine Learning models for the economic study of discrete consumer choices; Université Grenoble Alpes, France; February 19, 2024

Masters theses

Esteban Requena: Section: Civil Engineering; Cost Control Methodology for Infrastructure Projects in Construction Phase; Supervision:Michel Bierlaire; Expert:; 01/04/2024-02/08/2024
Martim Beels: TBD; Supervision:Michel Bierlaire; Expert: Dr Christophe Salzmann; 18/03/2024-13/09/2024
Antoine Goupil de Bouille: Section: Mathematics; Optimizing Gas Storage Strategies: Addressing Price Fluctuations and Leakage through a Mercuria Case Study; Supervision:Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Fabian Torres; Expert:; 20/02/2024-24/06/2024
Preto Anne-Valérie: Solve the problem of the EPFL campus in MOBi; Supervision:Negar Rezvany, Fabian Torres, Michel Bierlaire; Expert: Antonin Danalet; 19/02/2024-22/12/2024
Mohamed Essayouti: Section: Mathematics; Stochastic on-demand electric vehicle routing and charge scheduling; Supervision:Léa Ricard, Tom Haering, Michel Bierlaire; Expert: Claudia Bongiovanni; 19/02/2024-05/07/2024
Alexandre Monti: Section: Mathematics; Application of the information-theoretic clustering to the discrete choice; Supervision:Pavel Ilinov, Evangelos Paschalidis, Michel Bierlaire; Expert:; 19/02/2024-28/06/2024
Dixit Sabharwal: Section: Communication Systems; Modeling the Influence of Fear on Daily Activity Scheduling during a Pandemic through an Endogenous Choice Set Formation Approach.; Supervision:Michel Bierlaire, Cloe Cortes Balcells, Janody Pougala; Expert:; 19/09/2023-29/01/2024
Pablo Garcia: Section: Civil Engineering; Actualisation des méthodes d'analyse des carrefours giratoires; Supervision:Michel Bierlaire; Expert: Franco Tufo; 18/09/2023-02/02/2024; Supervised by Micael Tille
Xinling Li: Section: Civil Engineering; Learning joint rebalancing and dynamic pricing policies for Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand systems; Supervision:Michel Bierlaire; Expert: Filipe Rodrigues; 18/09/2023-15/03/2024

Semester projects

Alexia Stephanie Liviana Paratte: Comparative analysis of discrete choice models estimation using different software packages; Section:; February 19, 2024-May 31, 2024; Supervision: Evangelos Paschalidis, Negar Rezvany, Michel Bierlaire
Jules Schneuwly: A computational comparison of open-source branch-and-price solvers; Section:; February 19, 2024-June 21, 2024; Supervision: Léa Ricard, Fabian Torres, Michel Bierlaire
Anne-Valérie Preto: Improving the specification of migration aspiration discrete choice models via attitudinal variables; Section: Civil Engineering; February 19, 2024-May 31, 2024; Supervision: Evangelos Paschalidis, Nicola Ortelli, Michel Bierlaire
Mya Jamal Lahjouji: Comparison of different methodologies for interpolating traffic count data; Section: Civil Engineering; February 19, 2024-May 31, 2024; Supervision: Marija Kukic, Nicholas Molyneaux, Michel Bierlaire
Gabriel André Veigas Marques: Construction of an Itinerary Optimization Algorithm for a Trip Planning App; Section:; February 19, 2024-June 07, 2024; Supervision: Fabian Torres, Tom Haering, Michel Bierlaire
Honoka Shirai: Investigating latent behaviour in multiday activity scheduling; Section:; September 14, 2023-January 15, 2024; Supervision: Janody Pougala, Negar Rezvany, Michel Bierlaire
Pierre Alexis Hellich: Modeling Individual Activity Schedules and Behavior Changes in COVID-19 Using Metaheuristic Optimization; Section:; September 14, 2023-January 15, 2024; Supervision: Cloe Cortes Balcells, Fabian Torres, Michel Bierlaire
Aline Janvier: Generating a synthetic population with health and COVID-19 information; Section:; September 14, 2023-January 15, 2024; Supervision: Cloe Cortes Balcells, Marija Kukic, Michel Bierlaire

Additional teaching

Bayesian Estimation; Individual Prediction: Discrete Choice Analysis: Bayesian estimation and Individual prediction, February 15, 2024; EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; Lecturer: Ilinov Pavel; Assistant(s): Kukic Marija, Paschalidis Evangelos
Logit Mixtures; Combining Data (SP and RP): Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, February 13, 2024; EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; Lecturer: Paschalidis Evangelos; Assistant(s): Cortes Balcells Cloe, Ortelli Nicola
Nested logit; Aggregate forecasting: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, February 12, 2024; EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; Lecturer: Cortes Balcells Cloe; Assistant(s): Ilinov Pavel, Paschalidis Evangelos
Introduction, Logit Estimation and Testing: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, February 11, 2024; EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; Lecturer: Haering Tom; Assistant(s): Rezvany Negar, Ortelli Nicola, Torres Fabian

Seminars

Organization of conferences, workshops, etc.

No event scheduled at the moment. Please consult this page later.

Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand: February 11, 2024-February 15, 2024; Location: EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; Role: Founder, organizer and lecturer
Winter School on Optimization and Operations Research: January 14, 2024-January 19, 2024; Location: Hotel Europe, Zinal; Role: Organizer

Publications

Papers in international journals (accepted for publication)

Beine, M., Bierlaire, M., and Docquier, F. (to appear). New York, Abu Dhabi, London or Stay at Home? Using a Cross-Nested Logit Model to Identify Complex Substitution Patterns in Migration, Journal of Economic Geography (accepted for publication on January 16, 2024)

Papers in international journals

Obrenovic, N., Atac, S., and Bierlaire, M. (2024). Light electric vehicle sharing systems: Functional design of a comprehensive decision making solution, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 182(104043):.
Ortelli, N., de Lapparent, M., and Bierlaire, M. (2024). Resampling Estimation of Discrete Choice Models, Journal of Choice Modelling 50(100467):.

Technical reports

Ilinov, P., Matveenko, A., Senkov, M., and Starkov, E. (2024). Optimally Biased Expertise. Technical report TRANSP-OR 240223. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.
Ortelli, N., de Lapparent, M., Varotto, S. F., and Bierlaire, M. (2024). An integrated ordered logit and latent variable model for accident injury severity and risk-taking behavior. Technical report TRANSP-OR 240101. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.
Ricard, L., and Bierlaire, M. (2024). 50 years of behavioral models for transportation and logistics. Technical report TRANSP-OR 220408. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.

Speaker in external seminars

Ilinov, P., Matveenko, A., Sharma, S., Tsakas, E., and Mark, V., Sequential Search with Flexible Information. MaCCI Annual 2024, Mannheim Center of Competition and Innovation, March 14, 2024, Mannheim, Switzerland
Rezvany, N., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., Intra-household interactions in ABMs. Behaviour & Infrastructure Group (BIG) Research Colloquium, University College London (UCL), February 23, 2024, Online
Bierlaire, M., Transport et mobilité : l'importance de la recherche. Séminaire d’introduction de l’ETH Zurich pour les parlementaires fédérales / fédéraux nouvellement élues / élus 2024, ETH Zurich, February 08, 2024, Konolfingen, Switzerland
Kukic, M., and Bierlaire, M., Synthetic Population Projections and Unforeseen Events. 2nd EPFL Symposium on Transportation Research, EPFL, February 06, 2024, Barcelona, Spain
Rezvany, N., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., Intra-household interactions in ABMs: Household-level choice set generation. 2nd EPFL Symposium on Transportation Research, EPFL, February 06, 2024, Barcelona, Spain
Haering, T., Torres, F., and Bierlaire, M., Fast Algorithms for Capacitated Continuous Pricing with Discrete Choice Demand Models. 2nd EPFL Symposium on Transportation Research, EPFL, February 05, 2024, Barcelona, Spain

Awards and distinctions

Reviewing

Research projects (2)

E-Bike City: Sponsor: Swiss Federal Office of Energy; Team: Michel Bierlaire (PI), Janody Pougala (PM); Period: September 01, 2022-December 31, 2025; This project has the following content: Transport policy is currently not finding a way out of its dilemma; the imminent need to decarbonize a sector fast which has barely moved in the recent past and the social requirement to maintain and increase accessibility across all modes, but not to encourage sprawl while still allowing further decreases in the generalised cost of travel by new technologies and business models. We propose to use a radical departure from previous proposed ideas to enable the policy and transport industry to begin thinking from a different starting point. The design idea is to reallocate 50% of the existing urban road space to e-bikes, bicycles, and other micromobility modes and to assess what this change could achieve in terms of accessibility, generalised costs of travel, changes in daily life and reductions in emissions and CO2. The project will integrate careful involvement of the various stakeholders from citizens, cities, firms to interest groups, but will also provide the materials needed to communicate the ideas and their equity impacts visually and verbally at the required levels of complexity.
Migration and Discrete Choice Models (MIGDCM): Sponsor: Swiss National Science Foundation; Team: Michel Bierlaire (PI), Silvia Varotto (PM), Evangelos Paschalidis (PM); Period: March 01, 2022-March 31, 2025; International migration is at the forefront of policy debates in most countries around the world. In industrialized nations, the proportion of foreigners in total population increased from 4.5 to 12 percent between 1960 and 2019, stirring up fears about economic costs for natives, loss of national identity, and integration issues. In poor countries, international migration raises concerns about the brain drain of highly-skilled workers, as college and university graduates have a much greater propensity to emigrate internationally than the less educated. Hence, the questions of how many people migrate (i.e., migration intensity}, which people migrate first or are more likely to migrate (i.e., migrants' selection), and where migrants choose to settle (i.e., migrants' sorting) have been analyzed from all possible angles in recent literature. Specifically, understanding how people revise their decisions about whether to emigrate, and where to, when facing changes in the global environment is of crucial importance for decision-makers.

Miscellaneous responsibilities

Ongoing

Bierlaire

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Transportation Research Part B (since January 01, 1995)
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Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, Transportation Research Part C (since January 01, 2006)
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Director of the Transport and Mobility Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland (since July 01, 2006)
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Director, Transportation Center, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (since May 06, 2009)
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Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research (since November 08, 2011)
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Associate Editor, Operations Research (since January 01, 2012)
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Member of the International Advisory Committee, International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (since July 17, 2013)
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Member of the research council, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Bern, Switzerland (since January 01, 2015)
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Member of the Academic Promotion Committee, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (since April 01, 2015)
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Founder, member of the steering committee, European Association for Research in Transportation (since September 09, 2015)
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Member of the scientific advisory board, CIRRELT (Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation, Québec, Canada (since January 01, 2016)
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Scientific advisor, BestMile SA (since May 12, 2016)
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Scientific advisor, Kidodynamics (since May 01, 2018)
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Associate Editor, Transport Findings (since October 01, 2018)
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Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board , Transportation Research Center, Kumasi, Kumasi, Ghana (since November 01, 2018)
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Member of the Editorial Board, Transportation Research Part B (since December 01, 2018)
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Member of the Social Commission, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (since April 01, 2023)
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Krueger

Member of the Editorial Board, Transportation Letters (since February 15, 2021)
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Varotto

Member of the Committee Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (ACP50) , Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C. (since April 15, 2022)
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Finished in 2024

Bierlaire

Chair of the jury for the EURO Distinguished Service Award 2024, EURO The Association of European Operational Research Societies (October 25, 2023-October 25, 2024)
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Chair of the jury for the EURO Distinguished Service Award 2024, EURO The Association of European Operational Research Societies (June 07, 2023-August 31, 2024)
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Expertise

Transportation Research
Operations Research
Discrete Choice Models

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