Matteo Salani research projects

This page reports only the academic work registered in the databases of the Transport and Mobility Laboratory, and is not necessarily a comprehensive list of the work by Matteo Salani.

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CLIP-AIR concept: Integrated schedule planning for a new generation of aircrafts

Sponsor: EPFL Middle East

Team: Michel Bierlaire (PI), Bilge Atasoy (PM), Matteo Salani (PM)

Period: November 01, 2010-December 31, 2013

Sustainability has become a key topic in transportation in the last decades where the aim is to reduce the impact of transportation on the environment. One of the most important paths toward sustainability in this sector is to optimize transportation operations required in several dimensions to fulfill a given transport demand. To achieve this goal in the context of multimodal transport, there is a clear need for flexibility in capacity. This flexibility is adequately provided by a new concept developed at EPFL, named Clip-Air, for air transport. Clip-Air is a modular innovative aircraft with detachable load units which enable to adjust at best capacity according to demand. The decoupling of the load (capsules) and carrying units (wings) allows for simplified fleet management and maintenance operations for airlines and is expected to improve the ground operations for airports. Clip-Air also provides effective possibility of combining commercial freight and passengers on the same flight without any compromise in comfort. Besides, Clip-Air is designed to operate in a multi-modal context and is expected to improve the multi-modality concept by allowing a better integration between air transport and other transport modes. The objective of this research is to assess the actual impact of Clip-Air’s modularity on demand satisfaction, operational costs and environmental issues at the system level. The contributions will consist of models and algorithms designed to perform comparative analysis of operations of airlines and airports in various scenarios.

Models and methods for large scale optimization problems and applications in container terminals

Sponsor: Swiss National Science Foundation

Team: Michel Bierlaire (PI), Ilaria Vacca (PM), Matteo Salani (PM)

Period: December 01, 2009-November 30, 2012

We develop new strategies to tackle large scale problems and their optimization. We focus in particular applications arising in the optimization of container terminal operations.

Simulation-based optimization of a railroad yard

Sponsor: Vale

Team: Michel Bierlaire (PI), Matteo Salani (PM), Anne Curchod (PM)

Period: July 01, 2008-February 28, 2009

Simulation-based optimization of the operations of Vale's railroad yards.

Optimization of container terminal operations

Sponsor: Transport and Mobility Laboratory, EPFL

Team: Michel Bierlaire (PI), Ilaria Vacca (PM), Matteo Salani (PM)

Period: February 01, 2007-November 30, 2009

Design and development of models and algorithms for the optimization of operations in seaport container terminals.

Schedule disruption recovery for airlines

Sponsor: Commission pour la technologie et de l'innovation, Office Fédéral de la formation professionnelle et de la technologie.

Team: Michel Bierlaire (PI), Matteo Salani (PM), Niklaus Eggenberg

Period: June 01, 2006-May 31, 2008

Development of a software product dedicated to airlines and providing solutions to recover from schedule disruptions with minimum cost.