Tom�s Robenek

Journal publications [4]

2018

Robenek T., Sharif Azadeh S., Maknoon Y., de Lapparent M., Bierlaire M. (2018). Train Timetable Design Under Elastic Passenger Demand. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 111 :19-38


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  author = {Tom\'a\v{s} Robenek and Shadi {Sharif Azadeh} and Yousef Maknoon and Matthieu {de Lapparent} and Michel Bierlaire},
  title = {Train Timetable Design Under Elastic Passenger Demand},
  journal = {Transportation Research Part B: Methodological},
  year = {2018},
  volume = {111},
  pages = {19-38},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.trb.2018.03.002},
  note = {Accepted on Mar 01, 2018}}}

2017

Robenek T., Sharif Azadeh S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. (2017). Hybrid Cyclicity: Combining The Benefits Of Cyclic And Non-Cyclic Timetables. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 75 :228-253


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  title = {Hybrid Cyclicity: Combining The Benefits Of Cyclic And Non-Cyclic Timetables},
  journal = {Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies},
  year = {2017},
  volume = {75},
  pages = {228-253},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.trc.2016.12.015},
  note = {Accepted on Dec 19, 2016}}}

2016

Robenek T., Maknoon Y., Sharif Azadeh S., Chen J., Bierlaire M. (2016). Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 89 :107-126


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  title = {Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem},
  journal = {Transportation Research Part B: Methodological},
  year = {2016},
  volume = {89},
  pages = {107-126},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.trb.2016.04.003},
  note = {Accepted on Apr 01, 2016}}}

2014

Robenek T., Umang N., Bierlaire M., Ropke S. (2014). A Branch-and-Price Algorithm to Solve the Integrated Berth Allocation and Yard Assignment Problem in Bulk Ports. European Journal of Operational Research 235 (2):399-411

In this research, two crucial optimization problems of berth allocation and yard assignment in the context of bulk ports are studied. We discuss how these problems are interrelated and can be combined and solved as a single large scale optimization problem. More importantly we highlight the differences in operations between bulk ports and container terminals which high- lights the need to devise specific solutions for bulk ports. The objective is to minimize the total service time of vessels berthing at the port. We propose an exact solution algorithm based on a branch and price framework to solve the integrated problem. In the proposed model, the mas- ter problem is formulated as a set-partitioning problem, and subproblems to identify columns with negative reduced costs are solved using mixed integer programming. To obtain sub-optimal solutions quickly, a metaheuristic approach based on critical-shaking neighborhood search is pre- sented. The proposed algorithms are tested and validated through numerical experiments based on instances inspired from real bulk port data. The results indicate that the algorithms can be successfully used to solve instances containing up to 40 vessels within reasonable computational time.
```
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  journal = {European Journal of Operational Research},
  year = {2014},
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  DOI = {10.1016/j.ejor.2013.08.015},
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```

Technical reports [4]

2016

Robenek T., Sharif Azadeh S., Maknoon Y., de Lapparent M., Bierlaire M. (2016). Train Timetable Design Under Elastic Passenger Demand. Report TRANSP-OR 160923


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  title = {Train Timetable Design Under Elastic Passenger Demand},
  institution = {Transport and Mobility Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique F\'ed\'erale de Lausanne},
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Robenek T., Sharif Azadeh S., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. (2016). Hybrid Cyclicity: Combining The Benefits Of Cyclic And Non-Cyclic Timetables. Report TRANSP-OR 160510


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  type = {Technical Report},
  number = {TRANSP-OR 160510},
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2015

Robenek T., Maknoon Y., Sharif Azadeh S., Chen J., Bierlaire M. (2015). Passenger Centric Train Timetabling Problem. Report TRANSP-OR 150917


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  year = {2015},
  type = {Technical Report},
  number = {TRANSP-OR 150917},
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2012

Robenek T., Umang N., Bierlaire M., Ropke S. (2012). A branch-and-price algorithm to solve the integrated berth allocation and yard assignment problem in bulk ports. Report TRANSP-OR 121030


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  year = {2012},
  type = {Technical Report},
  number = {TRANSP-OR 121030},
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Articles in conference proceedings [7]

2015

Robenek T., Sharif Azadeh S., Bierlaire M. (2015) Evaluating the Quality of Railway Timetables from Passenger Point of View. Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT2015), July 19 - 23, Rotterdam, The Netherlands


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Robenek T., Sharif Azadeh S., Chen J., Bierlaire M., Maknoon Y. (2015) The Ideal Train Timetabling Problem. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailTokyo2015), March 23 � 26, Tokyo, Japan


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Robenek T., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. (2015) Railway Passenger Service Timetable Design. Proceedings of the 15th Swiss Transportation Research Conference (STRC), 15 -17 April, Ascona, Switzerland


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2014

Robenek T., Chen J., Bierlaire M. (2014) The Ideal Train Timetabling Problem. Proceedings of the 14th Swiss Transportation Research Conference (STRC), 14 - 16 May, Ascona, Switzerland


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  year = {2014},
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2013

Chen J., Atasoy B., Robenek T., Bierlaire M., Thémans M. (2013) Planning of feeding station installment for electric urban public mass-transportation system. Proceedings of the 13th Swiss Transportation Research Conference (STRC), 24-26 April, Ascona, Switzerland


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  title = {Planning of feeding station installment for electric urban public mass-transportation system},
  booktime = {Proceedings of the 13th Swiss Transportation Research Conference (STRC), 24-26 April},
  year = {2013},
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Robenek T., Chen J., Bierlaire M. (2013) Exploratory Analysis of Demand Interaction in the Planning of Passenger Railway Service. Proceedings of the 13th Swiss Transportation Research Conference (STRC), 24-26 April, Ascona, Switzerland


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2012

Robenek T., Umang N., Bierlaire M. (2012) Integrated Berth Allocation and Yard Assignment in Bulk Ports using Column Generation. Proceedings of the 12th Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC), May 2-4, Monte Verita / Ascona, Switzerland


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  booktime = {Proceedings of the 12th Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC), May 2-4},
  year = {2012},
  address = {Monte Verita / Ascona, Switzerland}}}

Talks [17]

2017

Robenek T. Behaviorally driven train timetable design March 02, 2017. Invited seminar, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.


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  year = {2017},
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2016

Robenek T., Sharif Azadeh S., Bierlaire M. Hybrid Cyclicity: Combining The Benefits Of Cyclic And Non-Cyclic Timetables June 13, 2016. Ninth Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN IX), Oranjestad, Aruba.


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  year = {2016},
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Robenek T., Maknoon Y., Sharif Azadeh S., Bierlaire M. Hybrid Cyclicity: Combining The Benefits Of Cyclic And Non-Cyclic Timetables May 19, 2016. 16th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland.


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2015

Robenek T., Maknoon Y., Sharif Azadeh S., Bierlaire M. Evaluating the Quality of Railway Timetables September 10, 2015. 4th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark.


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Robenek T., Sharif Azadeh S., Bierlaire M. Evaluating the Quality of Railway Timetables July 22, 2015. 13th Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.


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Robenek T., Maknoon Y., Bierlaire M. Railway Passenger Service Timetable Design April 17, 2015. 15th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland.


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Robenek T., Sharif Azadeh S., Maknoon Y., Chen J., Bierlaire M. The Ideal Train Timetabling Problem March 25, 2015. The 6th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailTokyo2015), Tokyo, Japan.


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Robenek T. Train Timetabling - New Approach January 13, 2015. CUSO Doctoral Programme in Operations Research – Spring Seminar, Zinal, Switzerland.


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2014

Robenek T., Chen J., Bierlaire M. The Ideal Train Timetabling Problem September 12, 2014. 3rd Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation, Leeds, United Kingdom.


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Robenek T., Chen J., Bierlaire M. The Ideal Train Timetabling Problem July 17, 2014. 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Barcelona, Spain.


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Robenek T., Chen J., Bierlaire M. The Ideal Train Timetabling Problem May 15, 2014. 14th Swiss Transportation Research Conference, Ascona, Switzerland.


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Robenek T., Chen J., Bierlaire M. The Ideal Train Timetabling Problem May 08, 2014. 12th Swiss Operations Research Days, Lausanne, Switzerland.


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2013

Robenek T., Chen J., Bierlaire M. Demand Based Timetabling of Passenger Railway Service September 05, 2013. 2nd Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation, Stockholm, Sweden.


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Robenek T., Chen J., Atasoy B., Bierlaire M. Tactical Design of Electric Bus Network Using Optimization Tools July 01, 2013. 26th European Conference on Operational Research, Rome, Italy.


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Robenek T., Chen J., Bierlaire M. Exploratory analysis of demand interaction in the planning of passenger railway service April 24, 2013. Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC), Ascona, Switzerland.


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2012

Robenek T., Umang N., Bierlaire M., Ropke S. A branch-and-price algorithm to solve the integrated berth allocation and yard assignment problem in bulk ports November 21, 2012. First Workshop on Large Scale Optimization, , Vevey, Switzerland.


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Robenek T., Umang N., Bierlaire M., Ropke S. Integrated berth allocation and yard assignment problem using column generation May 02, 2012. Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC), Ascona, Switzerland.


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Awards [1]

2013

Tomás Robenek. Best Master Thesis 2012, Swiss Operations Research Society.
Every year, the Swiss Operations Research Society proposes a prize of 1000 CHF to reward an outstanding theoretical or applied Diploma Thesis in the field of Operations Research. Tomas' thesis, entitled "Integrated Berth Allocation and Yard Assignment Problem in Bulk Ports Using Column Generation" won the prize for 2013. It was carried out at the Transport and Mobility Laboratory, EPFL as his Erasmus leave from the Transport Department at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), and sponsored by the Zeno-Karl Schindler Foundation. The research was supervised by Nitish Umang (EPFL), prof. Michel Bierlaire (EPFL) and prof. Stefan Ropke (DTU)..

Reviewing [10]

Research projects [1]

2012

myTOSA: catenary-free 100% electric urban public mass-transportation system

myTOSA is a simulation tool for the dimensioning, commercial promotion and case study set-up for ABB's revolutionary "catenary-free" 100% electric urban public mass-transportation system TOSA 2013. The objective of the project is to provide a simulation tool that will allow ABB to perform the proper dimensioning, promote the commercial idea and allow for specific study cases for the implementation of ABB's new public electric transportation concept, namely TOSA 2013.
- Mar 01, 2012 - Sep 30, 2013
- Sponsor: Commission pour la technologie et de l'innovation, Office Fédéral de la formation professionnelle et de la technologie.
- Principal investigator: Michel Bierlaire
- Project manager: Jianghang Chen
- Collaborators: Bilge Atasoy, Tom�s Robenek

EPFL courses [6]

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

Spring 2016

Decision-aid methodologies in transportation.
- Level: Master
- Section: Civil Engineering
- Lecturers: Matthieu de Lapparent, Shadi Sharif Azadeh
- Teaching assistants: Anna Fernandez Antolin, Tom�s Robenek, Yousef Maknoon, Evanthia Kazagli
- Webpage: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/decisionAid2016/index.php

Spring 2015

Optimization and Simulation.
- Level: PhD
- Section: Doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Lecturers: Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci, Yousef Maknoon
- Teaching assistants: Tom�s Robenek, Marija Nikolic
- Webpage: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/OptSim2015/

Spring 2014

Optimization and Simulation.
- Level: PhD
- Section: Doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Lecturers: Michel Bierlaire, Riccardo Scarinci, Jianghang Chen
- Teaching assistants: Tom�s Robenek, Marija Nikolic
- Webpage: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/OptSim2014/

Spring 2013

Decision-aid methodologies in transportation.
- Level: Master
- Section: Civil Engineering
- Lecturers: Michel Bierlaire, Jianghang Chen
- Teaching assistants: Evanthia Kazagli, Tom�s Robenek
- Webpage: http://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/decisionAid2013
G�om�trie.
- Level: Bachelor
- Section: Civil Engineering
- Lecturer: None None
- Teaching assistant: Tom�s Robenek

MSc theses [3]

2014-2015

Optimization of arrivals and departure ow management at congested airports, Guilhem Pujol (None)
- Supervision: Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Michel Bierlaire, Tomás Robenek
- External expert:

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

2012-2013

Optimization of an electric bus network, Frédéric Pythoud (Mathematics)
- Supervision: Bilge Atasoy, Tomás Robenek, Michel Bierlaire
- External expert: Olivier Augé, ABB

Semester projects [8]

2016

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

Supervision: Stefan Binder, Tomás Robenek, Michel Bierlaire

Demand based rolling stock allocation, Salma Derouiche (Computer science)

Supervision: Yousef Maknoon, Tomás Robenek, Michel Bierlaire
Providing a high level of service for the passengers is one of the most important requirements of passenger railway company. In practice during rush hours passengers cannot be transported according to usual service standards because of a shortage of the rolling stock capacity. The purpose of this pre-project is to determine an efficient method to allocate the rolling stock taking into account passengers demand.

Analysis of External Effects on Cyclicity in Passenger Railway Service, Lucia Montero (Computational science and engineering)

Supervision: Tomás Robenek, Shadi Sharif Azadeh
In the passenger railway service, cyclicity is in general perceived as a beneficial attribute. The main allegation being memorability of such timetables by the passengers. However no quantitative proof has been presented to support such statement. In this project, the student will become familiar with a passenger satisfaction (that is based on utility theory) and further extend this concept by the attribute expressing the perception of the cyclicity. Student will then solve an optimization problem maximizing the passenger satisfaction and/or train operating company's profit. The benchmark will be done on a small part of Swiss network, followed by a test on a full scale network of Israeli Railways. Basic knowledge of programming is required.

2014

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

2013

Optimisation des transports scolaires à Grandson II, Franka Tholen (Mathematics)

Supervision: Michel Bierlaire, Tomás Robenek, Bilge Atasoy
Analyser les probl�matiques, actuelles et futures, et proposer des solutions d'am�lioration d�coulant de l'organisation et de la gestion de l'ensemble des transports n�cessaires � la bonne marche du groupement et de l'arrondissement scolaire de Grandson (18 communes, 1'350 �l�ves, 70 classes, 12 sites scolaires). Ces probl�matiques r�sultent principalement d'une augmentation significative des co�ts li�s � l'introduction de la communaut� tarifaire vaudoise (Mobilis), de contraintes li�es � l'entr�e en vigueur d'HarmoS, des projets de constructions de l'association intercommunal, de l'�volution du r�seau r�gional des transports voire �galement des synergies � d�velopper avec le milieu parascolaire.

Optimization of Paris' Metro System, Thomas Cibils (Mathematics)

Supervision: Tomás Robenek, Jianghang Chen, Michel Bierlaire
The Metrolab (a joint venture between RATP (R�gie Autonome des Transports Parisiens) and Alstom) would like to conduct analysis of their current metro system in terms of metro schedules and pedestrian congestion in the stations. The aim of this project is to use optimization techniques to design more flexible dynamic timetables and partially to handle the pedestrian congestion in the stations. This project will be offered only for spring semester 2013.

2012-2013

Optimisation des transports scolaires à Grandson I, Clement Massart (Mathematics)

Supervision: Tomás Robenek, Bilge Atasoy, Michel Bierlaire
Analyser les probl�matiques, actuelles et futures, et proposer des solutions d'am�lioration d�coulant de l'organisation et de la gestion de l'ensemble des transports n�cessaires � la bonne marche du groupement et de l'arrondissement scolaire de Grandson (18 communes, 1'350 �l�ves, 70 classes, 12 sites scolaires). Ces probl�matiques r�sultent principalement d'une augmentation significative des co�ts li�s � l'introduction de la communaut� tarifaire vaudoise (Mobilis), de contraintes li�es � l'entr�e en vigueur d'HarmoS, des projets de constructions de l'association intercommunal, de l'�volution du r�seau r�gional des transports voire �galement des synergies � d�velopper avec le milieu parascolaire.