The Bus Rapid Transit Investment Problem

Rowan Hoogervorst, Evelien van der Hurk, Philine Schiewe, Anita Schöbel, Reena Urban (2023)

Reducing disease spread through optimization: Limiting mixture of the population is more important than limiting group sizes

Niels-Christian Fink Bagger, Evelien van der Hurk, Rowan Hoogervorst, David Pisinger (2022). Computers & Operations Research, 142, 105718.

A Variable Neighborhood Search Heuristic for Rolling Stock Rescheduling

Rowan Hoogervorst, Twan Dollevoet, Gábor Maróti and Dennis Huisman (2021). EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, 10, 100032.

Reducing Passenger Delays by Rolling Stock Rescheduling

Rowan Hoogervorst, Twan Dollevoet, Gábor Maróti and Dennis Huisman (2020). Transportation Science, 54 (3), 762-784.

Delays are a major nuisance to railway passengers. The extent to which a delay propagates, and thus affects the passengers, is influenced by the assignment of rolling stock. We propose to reschedule the rolling stock in such a way that the passenger delay is minimized and such that objectives on passenger comfort and operational efficiency are taken into account. We refer to this problem as the passenger delay reduction problem. We propose two models for this problem, which are based on two dominant streams of literature for the traditional rolling stock rescheduling problem. The first model is an arc formulation of the problem, whereas the second model is a path formulation. We test the effectiveness of these models on instances from Netherlands Railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen). The results show that the rescheduling of rolling stock can significantly decrease passenger delays in the system. Especially, allowing flexibility in the assignment of rolling stock at terminal stations turns out to be effective in reducing the delays. Moreover, we show that the arc formulation–based model performs best in finding high-quality solutions within the limited time that is available in the rescheduling phase.

Solving Bin-Packing Problems Under Privacy Preservation: Possibilities and Trade-Offs

Rowan Hoogervorst, Yingqian Zhang, Gamze Tillem, Zekeriya Erkin and Sicco Verwer (2019). Information Sciences, 500, 203-216.

The Edge Investment Problem: Upgrading Transit Line Segments with Multiple Investing Parties

Rowan Hoogervorst, Evelien van der Hurk, Philine Schiewe, Anita Schöbel and Reena Urban. In: Proceedings of 22nd Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modelling, Optimization, and Systems (ATMOS 2022)

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis on the Web Using Rhetorical Structure Theory

Rowan Hoogervorst, Erik Essink, Wouter Jansen, Max van den Helder, Kim Schouten, Flavius Frasincar and Maite Taboada (2016). In: Bozzon A., Cudre-Maroux P., Pautasso C. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9671. Springer, Cham

A Comparison of Models for Rolling Stock Scheduling

Boris Grimm, Rowan Hoogervorst, Ralf Borndörfer (2023)

Improving the Scheduling and Rescheduling of Rolling Stock: Solution Methods and Extensions

Rowan Hoogervorst (2021). ERIM Ph.D. Series Research in Management. Erasmus University Rotterdam.