Stefan Binder

Journal publications [4]

2021

Binder S., Maknoon Y., Sharif Azadeh S., Bierlaire M. (2021). Passenger-Centric Timetable Rescheduling: A User Equilibrium Approach. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 132 :103368


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  title = {Passenger-Centric Timetable Rescheduling: A User Equilibrium Approach},
  journal = {Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies},
  year = {2021},
  volume = {132},
  pages = {103368},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.trc.2021.103368},
  note = {Accepted on Aug 26, 2021}}}

2017

Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. (2017). Exogenous priority rules for the capacitated passenger assignment problem. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 105 :19-42


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  author = {Stefan Binder and Yousef Maknoon and Michel Bierlaire},
  title = {Exogenous priority rules for the capacitated passenger assignment problem},
  journal = {Transportation Research Part B: Methodological},
  year = {2017},
  volume = {105},
  pages = {19-42},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.trb.2017.08.022},
  note = {Accepted on Aug 17, 2017}}}

Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. (2017). The multi-objective railway timetable rescheduling problem. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 78 :78-94


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  title = {The multi-objective railway timetable rescheduling problem},
  journal = {Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies},
  year = {2017},
  volume = {78},
  pages = {78-94},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.trc.2017.02.001},
  note = {Accepted on Feb 01, 2017}}}

2014

Binder S., Macfarlane G., Garrow L., Bierlaire M. (2014). Associations among Household Characteristics, Vehicle Characteristics and Emissions Failures: An Application of Targeted Marketing Data. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 59 :122-133


@Article{BindMacfGarrBier13,
  author = {Stefan Binder and Gregory Macfarlane and Laurie Garrow and Michel Bierlaire},
  title = {Associations among Household Characteristics, Vehicle Characteristics and Emissions Failures: An Application of Targeted Marketing Data},
  journal = {Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice},
  year = {2014},
  volume = {59},
  pages = {122-133},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.tra.2013.11.005},
  note = {Accepted on Nov 04, 2013}}}

Book chapters [2]

2017

Audikana A., Binder S. (2017) Faut-il penser les transports pour qu'ils soient les plus rapides possibles ?. In Bierlaire, Kaufmann, Rérat (ed) La mobilité en questions, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes (PPUR) [ISBN 978-2-88915-172-1]


@InProceedings{AudiBind2017,
  author = {Ander Audikana and Stefan Binder},
  title = {Faut-il penser les transports pour qu'ils soient les plus rapides possibles ?},
  year = {2017},
  booktile = {La mobilit\'e en questions},
  editor = {Bierlaire and  Kaufmann and  R\'erat},
  publisher = {Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes (PPUR)},
  pages = {23-36}}}

Binder S., Ravalet E. (2017) Quel est le prix d'une minute gagnée dans nos déplacements?. In Bierlaire, Kaufmann, Rérat (ed) La mobilité en questions, Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes (PPUR) , Lausanne, Suisse [ISBN 978-2-88915-172-1]


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  title = {Quel est le prix d'une minute gagn\'ee dans nos d\'eplacements?},
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  booktile = {La mobilit\'e en questions},
  editor = {Bierlaire and  Kaufmann and  R\'erat},
  publisher = {Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes (PPUR)},
  address = {Lausanne, Suisse},
  pages = {37-52}}}

Technical reports [2]

2017

Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. (2017). Introducing exogenous priority rules for the capacitated passenger assignment problem. Report TRANSP-OR 170209


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  title = {Introducing exogenous priority rules for the capacitated passenger assignment problem},
  institution = {Transport and Mobility Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne},
  year = {2017},
  type = {Technical Report},
  number = {TRANSP-OR 170209},
  address = {Lausanne, Switzerland}}}

2016

Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. (2016). The multi-objective railway timetable rescheduling problem. Report TRANSP-OR 160530


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  year = {2016},
  type = {Technical Report},
  number = {TRANSP-OR 160530},
  address = {Lausanne, Switzerland}}}

Articles in conference proceedings [5]

2017

Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. (2017) Efficient investigation of multiple dimensions of the railway timetable rescheduling problem. Proceedings of the 17th Swiss Transportation Research ConferenceMay 17-19th, Ascona, Switzerland


@InProceedings{Binder_STRC2017_Proceedings,
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  year = {2017},
  address = {Ascona, Switzerland}}}

2015

Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. (2015) Passenger-oriented railway disposition timetables in case of severe disruptions. Proceedings of the 15th Swiss Transportation Research ConferenceApril 15-17th, Ascona, Switzerland


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  year = {2015},
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Binder S., Maknoon Y., Sharif Azadeh S., Bierlaire M. (2015) Generation and evaluation of passenger-oriented railway disposition timetables in case of severe disruptions. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailTokyo2015), March 23 � 26, Tokyo, Japan


@InProceedings{Binder_RailTokyo,
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  title = {Generation and evaluation of passenger-oriented railway disposition timetables in case of severe disruptions},
  booktime = {Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailTokyo2015), March 23 {\textendash} 26},
  year = {2015},
  address = {Tokyo, Japan}}}

2014

Bonnet F., Binder S., Elias de Oliveira M., Halloy J., Mondada F. (2014) A Miniature Mobile Robot Developed to be Socially Integrated with Species of Small Fish. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and BiomimeticsDecember 5-10, Bali, Indonesia


@InProceedings{BonnetBinder2014,
  author = {Frank Bonnet and Stefan Binder and Marcelo {Elias de Oliveira} and Jos\'e Halloy and Frncesco Mondada},
  title = {A Miniature Mobile Robot Developed to be Socially Integrated with Species of Small Fish},
  booktime = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, December 5-10},
  year = {2014},
  address = {Bali, Indonesia}}}

Binder S., Chen J., Bierlaire M. (2014) Generation and evaluation of passenger-oriented railway disposition timetables. Proceedings of the Swiss Transportation Research Conference (STRC), 14 - 16 May, Ascona, Switzerland


@InProceedings{Binder_STRC2014,
  author = {Stefan Binder and {Jiang Hang} Chen and Michel Bierlaire},
  title = {Generation and evaluation of passenger-oriented railway disposition timetables},
  booktime = {Proceedings of the Swiss Transportation Research Conference (STRC), 14 - 16 May},
  year = {2014},
  address = {Ascona, Switzerland}}}

Talks [12]

2017

Binder S., Bierlaire M. An efficient algorithm for the multi-objective railway timetable rescheduling problem September 12, 2017. 6th symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), Haifa, Israel.


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Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. Efficient investigation of multiple dimensions of the railway timetable rescheduling problem May 17, 2017. 17th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland.


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  year = {2017},
  note = {Presented at 17th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland}}}

2016

Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. A passenger assignment model for the railway timetable rescheduling problem September 16, 2016. 5th symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), Delft, The Netherlands.


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  year = {2016},
  note = {Presented at 5th symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), Delft, The Netherlands}}}

Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. On the trade-off between passenger convenience and operational costs in railway disruption management June 17, 2016. Ninth Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN IX), Oranjestad, Aruba.


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  year = {2016},
  note = {Presented at Ninth Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN IX), Oranjestad, Aruba}}}

Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. Exploring Pareto solutions of the multi-objective railway disruption management problem May 19, 2016. 16th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland.


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  year = {2016},
  note = {Presented at 16th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland}}}

2015

Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. On the trade-off between passenger convenience and operational costs in railway disruption management September 10, 2015. 4th symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART), Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.


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  year = {2015},
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Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. An exact formulation of the passenger-oriented train timetable rescheduling problem in case of severe disruptions July 15, 2015. 27th European Conference on Operational Research, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.


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  year = {2015},
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Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. Passenger-oriented railway disposition timetables in case of severe disruptions April 17, 2015. 15th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland.


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Binder S., Maknoon Y., Sharif Azadeh S., Bierlaire M. Generation and evaluation of passenger-oriented railway disposition timetables in case of severe disruptions March 26, 2015. 6th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis, Tokyo, Japan.


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Binder S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. Generation and evaluation of passenger-oriented railway disposition timetables in case of severe disruptions January 14, 2015. Programme Doctoral en Recherche Opérationnelle, Zinal, Switzerland.


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2014

Binder S., Chen J., Bierlaire M. Generation and evaluation of passenger-oriented railway disposition timetables May 15, 2014. Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland.


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Binder S., Chen J., Bierlaire M. Generation and evaluation of passenger-oriented railway disposition timetables May 08, 2014. 12th Swiss OR Days, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.


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Reviewing [4]

EPFL courses [7]

Spring 2017

Decision-aid methodologies in transportation.
- Level: Master
- Section: Civil Engineering
- Lecturers: Virginie Lurkin, Mor Kaspi
- Teaching assistants: Tom�s Robenek, Stefan Binder, Iliya Markov, Meritxell Pacheco
- Webpage: http://moodle.epfl.ch/enrol/index.php?id=15132
Enjeux mondiaux : Mobilit� A.
- Level: Bachelor
- Section: All sections
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistants: Nicholas Molyneaux, Stefan Binder
- Webpage: http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=13982
Optimization and Simulation.
- Level: PhD
- Section: Doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Lecturers: Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci
- Teaching assistants: Marija Nikolic, Stefan Binder
- Webpage: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/OptSim2017/

Spring 2016

Enjeux mondiaux : Mobilit� A.
- Level: Bachelor
- Section: All sections
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistants: Stefan Binder, Shadi Sharif Azadeh
- Webpage: http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=13982

Spring 2015

Enjeux Mondiaux.
- Level: Bachelor
- Section: All sections
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistants: Stefan Binder, Flurin H�nseler
- Webpage: http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=13982

Fall 2014

Mod�lisation des syst�mes de transports.
- Level: Master
- Section: Civil Engineering
- Lecturer: Anne Curchod
- Teaching assistant: Stefan Binder
- Webpage: http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=14218

Spring 2014

Enjeux mondiaux.
- Level: Bachelor
- Section: All sections
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistants: Stefan Binder, Antonin Danalet
- Webpage: http://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=13982

MSc theses [2]

2017

Demand based rolling stock allocation, Salma Deruiche (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Virginie Lurkin, Stefan Binder, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Simon Landureau

2014

Optimisation des tournées de ramassage des employés de l'aéroport de Genève, Isabel Tovar (Civil Engineering)
- Supervision: Tomás Robenek, Stefan Binder, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Philippe Quaglia, Aéroport international de Genève

Semester projects [8]

2017-2018

On the optimization of CAPEX and OPEX for the design of a full electric large capacity urban bus system, Guillaume Mollard (Computational science and engineering)

Supervision: Virginie Lurkin, Stefan Binder, Michel Bierlaire
During the last few decades, environmental impact of the fossil fuel-based transportation infrastructure has led to renewed interest in electric transportation infrastructure, especially in urban public mass-transportation sector. The deployment of battery-powered electric bus systems within the public transportation sector plays an important role to increase energy efficiency and to abate emissions. RAn efficient feeding stations installation and an appropriate dimensioning of battery capacity are crucial to minimize the total cost of ownership for the citywide bus transportation net- work. The objective of this project is to extend an existing optimization model to the multiple lines case and to come up with an objective function that better reflect the real costs incurred by the operator. The objective function should include Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) and Operational Expenditures (OPEX). For the multiple line case, the central issue is to deal with the feeding stations that are shared among different lines.

2016

Price of anarchy in public transit networks, Marc-Edouard Schultheiss (Civil Engineering)

Supervision: Stefan Binder, Tomás Robenek, Michel Bierlaire

2015-2016

Online estimation of pedestrian origin-destination demand in train stations using Kalman Filtering, Marc Solsona Bernet (Civil Engineering)

Supervision: Flurin Hänseler, Stefan Binder, Michel Bierlaire

2015

Routing of a mixed fleet of electric and diesel trucks: Analysis of solution approaches, Noortje Verstegen (Computer science)

Supervision: Iliya Markov, Stefan Binder, Michel Bierlaire
A transportation company wants to study the potential benefit of replacing some of the diesel trucks in its fleet with electric ones. Electric and diesel trucks have comparable characteristics in terms of capacity and electric trucks are capable of performing an average daily itinerary on a single charge. The price of an electric truck is higher, while its operating cost is much lower compared to a diesel truck. Therefore, we want to find an intelligent deployment of the mixed fleet so as to minimize cost. The goal is the development of a vehicle routing model and/or heuristic, taking into account the characteristics of the various trucks, including fuel/energy consumption, speed, capacity, compatibilities, working time, service times, etc. The integration of the truck load's impact on fuel/energy consumption and the analysis of battery replacement/recharging strategies could also be considered if time permits. Solution quality can be compared against benchmarks results and data from the state of practice. As a previous semester project, a student has already worked on defining the problem, developing a heuristic algorithm and obtaining some results. The current project is intended to do a deeper analysis and implementation of solution methodologies. This project is appropriate for a student with an interest in operations research and experience in programming (Java preferred). The workload can be adjusted to the number of credits.

2014

3D routing approach for air navigation planning for small sized planes, Jamal El Rhazi (Civil Engineering)

Supervision: Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Michel Bierlaire, Stefan Binder
This projects aims to study and visualize the aviation data using factors such as, geographical information of the plane as well as weather condition for a flight most specifically during cruise phase. MATLAB is a powerful software with high quality of visualization of data, however, when the size of data gets bigger, the performance of MATLAB degrades and it becomes slower. Recently, some new software such as, Tableau has been introduced that provide powerful tools to visualize the big data.

Routing of a mixed fleet of electric and internal combustion trucks, Thomas Cibils (Management of Technology and Financial Engineering)

Supervision: Iliya Markov, Stefan Binder, Michel Bierlaire
A transportation company has introduced a number of electric trucks into their current fleet of internal combustion trucks. Electric and internal combustion trucks have similar characteristics in terms of capacity and electric trucks are capable of performing an average daily itinerary on a single charge. The goal is the development of a vehicle routing model and heuristic, taking into account the characteristics of the various trucks, including fuel/energy consumption, speed, capacity, compatibilities, working time, service times, etc. Various objectives could be considered and analyzed, such as the minimization of time, energy consumption and cost. The integration of the truck load's impact on fuel/energy consumption and the analysis of battery replacement/recharging strategies could also be considered if time permits. Data is available for benchmarking with the state of practice and assessing the heuristic's performance against the mathematical model. This project is appropriate for a student with an interest in operations research (mixed integer linear programming), some experience with mathematical programming languages (e.g. AMPL or CPLEX OPL) and good programming skills (e.g. C++, Java or Matlab).

Train Management in SNCF Application, Cao Huu-Ân (Computational science and engineering)

Supervision: Tomás Robenek, Stefan Binder, Michel Bierlaire

2013-2014

Optimisation des tournées de ramassage des employés de l'aéroport de Genève (Pre-Project), Isabel Tovar (Civil Engineering)

Supervision: Tomás Robenek, Stefan Binder, Michel Bierlaire