Janody Pougala
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- Papers in international journals (3)
- Papers in conference proceedings (9)
- Technical reports (4)
- Seminar (14)
- Awards and distinctions (2)
- Reviewing (4)
- Research projects (4)
- Regular teaching (8)
- Miscellaneous lectures (7)
- Project supervision (17)
International journals
Published
Total: 3
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M. (2023). OASIS: Optimisation-based Activity Scheduling with Integrated Simultaneous choice dimensions, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 155:. doi:10.1016/j.trc.2023.104291
- Manser, P., Haering, T., Hillel, T., Pougala, J., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2022). Estimating flexibility preferences to resolve temporal scheduling conflicts in activity-based modelling, Transportation (accepted for publication on August 22, 2022) doi:10.1007/s11116-022-10330-8
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M. (2022). Capturing trade-offs between daily scheduling choices, Journal of Choice Modelling 43(100354):. doi:10.1016/j.jocm.2022.100354
Papers in conference proceedings
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M. (2023). From one-day to multiday activity scheduling: extending the OASIS framework. Proceedings of the 23rd Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) 10-12 May, 2023.
- Wang, M., Pougala, J., and Bierlaire, M. (2023). Initial comparisons between Multiple Discrete-Continuous Extreme Value (MDCEV) model and Optimization-based Activity Scheduling Integrating Simultaneous choice dimensions (OASIS) framework. Proceedings of the 23rd Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) (STRC) 10-12 May, 2023.
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M. (2022). Parameter estimation for activity-based models. Proceedings of the 22nd Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) 18-20 May, 2022.
- Salvadé, N., Hillel, T., Pougala, J., Haering, T., and Bierlaire, M. (2022). Representing location choice within activity-based models. Proceedings of the 22nd Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) 18-20 May, 2022.
- Haering, T., Manser, P., Hillel, T., Pougala, J., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2021). Resolving time conflicts in activity-based scheduling: A case study of Lausanne. Proceedings of the 21st Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) 12-14 September, 2021.
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M. (2021). Choice set generation for activity-based models. Proceedings of the 21st Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) 12-14 September, 2021.
- Hillel, T., Pougala, J., Manser, P., Luethi, R., Scherr, W., and Bierlaire, M. (2020). Modelling mobility tool availability at a household and individual level: A case study of Switzerland. Proceedings of the 9th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (HEART) 3-4 February 2021, 2020.
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M. (2020). An optimization framework for daily activity schedules. Proceedings of the 9th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (HEART) 3-4 February 2021, 2020.
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M. (2020). Scheduling of daily activities: an optimization approach. Proceedings of the 20th Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC) 13-14 May, 2020.
Technical reports
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M. (2022). OASIS: Optimisation-based Activity Scheduling with Integrated Simultaneous choice dimensions. Technical report TRANSP-OR 221124. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.
- Bataillard, L., Pougala, J., Haering, T., and Bierlaire, M. (2022). A comparative analysis of optimization algorithms for activity-based applications. Technical report TRANSP-OR 220610. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.
- Manser, P., Haering, T., Hillel, T., Pougala, J., Krueger, R., and Bierlaire, M. (2021). Resolving temporal scheduling conflicts in activity-based modelling. Technical report TRANSP-OR 211209. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M. (2021). Capturing trade-offs between daily scheduling choices. Technical report TRANSP-OR 210101. Transport and Mobility Laboratory, ENAC, EPFL.
Seminars
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., Modelling the impact of activity duration on utility-based scheduling decisions: a comparative analysis. 11th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation, ETHZ, September 06, 2023, Zurich, Switzerland
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., Modelling the impact of activity duration on utility-based scheduling decisions. MatSIM User Meeting, ETHZ, September 05, 2023, Zurich, Switzerland
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., Modelling the impact of activity duration on utility-based scheduling decisions: a comparative analysis. 15th workshop on Discrete Choice Models, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, June 02, 2023, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., From one-day to multiday activity scheduling: extending the OASIS framework. STRC 2023, May 10, 2023, Monte Veritá, Ascona, Switzerland
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., OASIS: An integrated framework to simulate daily scheduling. 16th International Conference on Travel Behaviour Research, International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR), December 12, 2022, Santiago, Chile
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., OASIS: An optimisation framework for daily activity scheduling. USL Seminar Series, Urban Systems Laboratory, Imperial College London , November 25, 2022, London, UK
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., OASIS: An optimisation framework for daily activity scheduling. , City Modelling Lab, ARUP, November 24, 2022, London, UK
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., OASIS: An optimisation framework for daily activity scheduling. ISI Seminar Series, Infrastructure Systems Institute, University College London, October 31, 2022, London, UK
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., An optimisation framework for activity-based models. Seeon Symposium on Activity-Based Modelling, TUM, September 13, 2022, Kloster Seeon, Germany
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., Parameter estimation for activity-based models. STRC 2022, May 19, 2022, Monte Veritá, Ascona, Switzerland
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., Optimisation-based activity-based models. ETH workshop on agent-based models , Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (ETHZ-IVT), April 27, 2022, Zurich, Switzerland
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., Choice set generation for activity-based models. mobil.TUM 2022: 12th International Scientific Conference on Mobility and Transport, TUM Asia, April 06, 2022, Online
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., Choice set generation for activity-based models. STRC 2021, September 14, 2021, Monte Veritá, Ascona, Switzerland
- Pougala, J., Hillel, T., and Bierlaire, M., Scheduling of daily activities: an optimization approach. STRC 2020, May 13, 2020, Monte Veritá, Ascona, Switzerland
Awards
- Janody Pougala : Best Paper Award , September 08, 2023. Institution: European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART).
- Janody Pougala : PhD mobility award 2022, June 29, 2022. Institution: Doctoral School Civil and Environmental Engineering (EDCE). Description: The PhD Mobility Award is given by the doctoral program in Civil and Environmental Engineering (EDCE) to encourage good PhD students within the program to go for an academic visit to an external research institution.
Reviewing
Total: 4 reviews for 2 journals (since 2004). Per year: 2023: 4.
Research projects
- 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.
- Activity scheduling an rhythmic style: multi-day modeling of mobility habits
- Sponsor: School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
- Team: Janody Pougala (PI&PM), Marija Kukic
- Period: October 01, 2020-October 01, 2021
- A growing body of research shows that the traditional approaches employed to plan and forecast travel behaviors are not equipped to deal with the heterogeneity of behaviors over time, space, and social spheres. Therefore, travel policies struggle to reconcile social inclusivity, sustainability and network efficiency. Two ENAC laboratories propose to join forces, in mathematical modeling and quantitative sociology, to develop a novel multi-day activity-scheduling framework to forecast travel demand. Integrating day-to-day correlations in travel behaviors will lead to a better understanding of the motives behind travel decisions, and will unveil more facets of individual decision making for better predictions of their daily mobility choices. This research uses the MOBIS dataset, a 8-week / 3700-respondent travel survey conducted in Switzerland in 2019. The forecasting model will be applied to the Swiss synthetic population and several scenarios will be considered.
- Optimization of individual mobility plans to simulate future travel in Switzerland
- Sponsor: Innosuisse (Swiss Innovation Agency)
- Team: Michel Bierlaire (PI), Tim Hillel (PM), Janody Pougala, Rico Krueger
- Period: September 01, 2020-March 01, 2022
- This project, joint with Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) will develop a new activity-based modelling approach based on optimization of individual daily mobility plans. This approach will be implemented within SBB's existing nationwide model for Switzerland for investment and service planning decisions for future transportation.
- Activity based travel demand forecasting
- Sponsor: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)
- Team: Michel Bierlaire (PI), Tim Hillel (PM), Janody Pougala
- Period: March 01, 2019-March 01, 2020
- This research project aims to update and improve the microscopic activity-based demand model developed and maintained by SBB. Specifically the research intends to address the following questions: 1. Ownership of mobility instruments: Which metrics and specifications can be added to the current model, in order to improve its ability to forecast mid-and long-term ownership of mobility instruments? More specifically, how can the notion of accessibility be integrated to the current model to capture more complex mode interactions? 2. Mode choice model: Can a tour-based approach be used to model mode choice? In addition, how can the processes to estimate destination and mode choice (currently nested) be combined to generate results that are consistent with observed mobility behaviors at different time horizons (short, mid, and long-term)? 3. Tour and activity generation: How can the generation of tours and activity patterns be combined to allow modelling of joint decisions?
Regular teaching
- Mathematical modeling of behavior
- Year: Fall 2023
- Section(s): Mathematics, Master in Financial Engineering
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistant: Evangelos Paschalidis, Nicola Ortelli, Janody Pougala, Cloe Cortes Balcells
- Webpage: https://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=1001
- Introduction to Transportation Systems
- Year: Spring 2023
- Section(s): Civil Engineering
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistant: Marija Kukic, Janody Pougala, Mengyi Wang
- Decision-aid methodologies in transportation
- Year: Spring 2022
- Section(s): Civil Engineering
- Lecturers: Tim Hillel, Nour Dougui
- Teaching assistant: Selin Atac, Janody Pougala, Marija Kukic, Negar Rezvany
- Mathematical modeling of behavior
- Year: Fall 2021
- Section(s): Mathematics, Master in Financial Engineering
- Lecturer: Virginie Lurkin
- Teaching assistant: Melvin Wong, Silvia Varotto, Nicola Ortelli, Janody Pougala
- Webpage: https://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=1001
- Decision-aid methodologies in transportation
- Year: Spring 2021
- Section(s): Civil Engineering
- Lecturers: Tim Hillel, Nour Dougui
- Teaching assistant: Selin Atac, Janody Pougala, Marija Kukic, Negar Rezvany
- Webpage: https://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/decisionAid2020/index.php
- Mathematical modeling of behavior
- Year: Fall 2020
- Section(s): Mathematics, Master in Financial Engineering
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistant: Melvin Wong, Rico Krueger, Janody Pougala, Nicola Ortelli
- Webpage: https://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=1001
- Decision-aid methodologies in transportation
- Year: Spring 2020
- Section(s): Civil Engineering
- Lecturers: Tim Hillel, Nour Dougui
- Teaching assistant: Stefano Bortolomiol, Gael Lederrey, Selin Atac, Janody Pougala
- Webpage: https://transp-or.epfl.ch/courses/decisionAid2020/index.php
- Mathematical modeling of behavior
- Year: Fall 2019
- Section(s): Mathematics, Master in Financial Engineering
- Lecturer: Michel Bierlaire
- Teaching assistant: Tim Hillel, Meritxell Pacheco, Janody Pougala, Nicola Ortelli
- Webpage: https://moodle.epfl.ch/course/view.php?id=1001
Miscellaneous lectures
- Hierarchical Bayesian Estimation; Individual Prediction
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, February 02, 2023
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Janody Pougala
- Assistants: Marija Kukic, Nicola Ortelli
- Hybrid choice models
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, February 01, 2023
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Nicola Ortelli
- Assistants: Tom Haering, Evangelos Paschalidis, Janody Pougala
- Logit Mixtures; Combining Data (SP and RP)
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, January 31, 2023
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Evangelos Paschalidis
- Assistants: Cloe Cortes Balcells, Janody Pougala, Negar Rezvany
- Logit Mixtures; Combining RP and SP data
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, March 09, 2022
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Janody Pougala
- Assistants: Selin Atac, Silvia Varotto
- Introduction; Logit Estimation and Testing
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, March 07, 2022
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Cloe Cortes Balcells
- Assistants: Janody Pougala, Selin Atac, Negar Rezvany
- Logit Mixtures; Combining RP and SP data
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, February 10, 2021
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Janody Pougala
- Assistant: Selin Atac
- Nested Logit; Aggregate Forecasting
- Program: Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Individual Behavior and Market Demand, February 09, 2021
- School: EPFL
- Lecturer: Selin Atac
- Assistant: Janody Pougala
Project supervision
Masters theses
- 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
- Salim Benchelabi
- Section: Mathematics
- Capturing dynamics in synthetic population
- Supervision:Marija Kukic, Janody Pougala, Michel Bierlaire
- Expert: Antonin Danalet
- 20/02/2023-26/06/2023
- Quentin Bochud
- Section: Civil Engineering
- Synthetic generation of activity motifs
- Supervision:Marija Kukic, Janody Pougala, Michel Bierlaire
- Expert: Gael Lederrey
- 20/02/2023-26/06/2023
- Nicolas Richter
- Section: Civil Engineering
- Modélisation du réseau de transports publics genevois à la suite d'un événement réseau
- Supervision:Marija Kukic, Janody Pougala, Michel Bierlaire
- Expert: Antoine Stroh
- 21/09/2021-17/01/2022
- Nicolas Salvadé
- Section: Civil Engineering
- Representing destination choice sets within activity-based models
- Supervision:Janody Pougala, Tom Haering, Tim Hillel
- Expert: Patrick Manser
- 21/09/2021-17/01/2022
- Alain Azzi
- Section: Mechanical Engineering
- Feuille de route pour l'électrification du réseau de bus urbains de Lausanne à l'horizon 2030
- Supervision:Nicola Ortelli, Janody Pougala, Michel Bierlaire
- Expert: Philippe Seydoux
- 17/02/2020-14/08/2020
- Sergej Gasparovich
- Section: Civil Engineering
- Generating daily activity schedules using machine learning
- Supervision:Janody Pougala, Tim Hillel, Michel Bierlaire
- Expert: Antonin Danalet
- 17/02/2020-19/06/2020
Semester projects
- Investigating latent behaviour in multiday activity scheduling, Honoka Shirai, January 15, 2024
- Synthetic generation of activity motifs, Bochud Quentin Philippe (SGC), January 27, 2023
- A model to capture ride-sharing behavior within the agents in a household, Mya Jamal Lahjouji (SGC), January 07, 2023
- A comparitive analysis of optimization algorithms for activity-based applications, Luca Bataillard (SIN), June 10, 2022
- A discrete choice model to capture the relationship between activity type-location-modality choice of individuals, Jingran Su (SGC), June 10, 2022
- Modeling Geneva's public transport network following disruption events, Nicolas Richter (SGC), July 09, 2021
- Generating choice sets of destinations for activity based applications, Nicolas Salvadé (SGC), January 29, 2021
- Generating choice sets of transport modes for activity based applications, Benoit Pahud (SGC), January 29, 2021
- Tour-based mode choice modelling, Adrien Nicolet (SGC), January 31, 2020
- Investigating daily activity patterns, Sergey Gasparovich (SGC), January 31, 2020