Operations Research and Traffic

Jointly organized by the Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde (LNMB) and the Nederlands Genootschap Besliskunde (NGB)
Conference Center  “De Werelt”, in Lunteren, on January 15, 2009.

The Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde (LNMB) and the Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB) jointly organize the one-day seminar "Operations Research and Energy", in Conference Center “De Werelt” in Lunteren, on January 17, 2008.  The seminar is the 10th in a series of annual seminars, following the previous successful seminars on “Operations Research & Enterprise Resource Planning” (1999), “Operations Research in Financial Management” (2000), “E-commerce & Operations Research” (2001), “Capacity management – How operations research models support decision makers” (2002), “New developments in Operations Research software” (2003), "On-line methods: Challenges for OR in a real-time world" (2004), "Mathematical Models for Financial Optimization" (2005), "Operations Research and Health Care" (2006), "Operations Research and Public Transportation" (2007) and "Operations Research and Energy" (2008).

The Dutch OR Society and the Dutch Network of Operations Research proudly present a collection of presentations which will take the audience through various activities that cannot be achieved without the help of OR in the regulation of traffic. In many countries, and especially in The Netherlands, traffic congestion has risen to an unacceptable level, not only in large cities, but also on highways. The straightforward strategy of developing more roads with more lanes is not always possible or desirable. Lack of space availability, and specifically for the Netherlands situation: wildlife preservation constraints, are the typical bottlenecks. Changing the behaviour of drivers, such as introducing speed limitations, moving to other means of transportation, spreading the traffic over time, have had limited effects so far, or the effects have been undone by the still growing usage of roads. A first step in attacking the problem is to gain insight in the structure of traffic by developing models for traffic behaviour.

New insights have been obtained here by monitoring traffic in the field (Henk Taale (Rijkswaterstaat), and Elleke Jansen(Tilburg University)). Marco Duynisveld (TNO) has developed mathematical models based on the properties of real-life traffic, on which simulation studies and computational experiments can build. Currently, the hope for congestion reduction is found in another behavioural approach, by introduction of toll prices on roads. Though the introduction in the Netherlands has been (and still is) delayed over and over again, much research has been done on the effects of road pricing. Taede Tillema (University of Groningen) is one of the leading researchers in the field. The main beneficiary of these tolls is the government. Her main interest is, of course, to reduce the amount of traffic jams, but a side effect is that tolls bring in revenues. Kevin Pak & Arnoud Kuiper (ORTEC) will discuss the expected revenue effects of introducing tolls. An important user of highway roads are the repair services. For the ANWB, the leading repair service in the Netherlands, Joris van de Klundert (Maastricht University & Mateum) has developed models and methods for the real-time planning of broken car maintenance on highways.

The conference language is English. To participate at the seminar, please go to Registration Seminar and send the form before January 5, 2009. The conference fee is 75 Euro for LNMB and NGB members, and 125 Euro for others. You will receive an invoice after your registration form has been received. The conference fee covers lunch, coffee, tea, and the drinks. 

SEMINAR PROGRAM
09.30 - 10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.10	Welcome by the chairman Jo van Nunen (Erasmus University & Director Transumo) (click here for the slides of the presentation)
10.10 - 10.50	Henk Taale (Rijkswaterstaat) Integrated anticipatory control of road networks (click here for the slides of the presentation)
11.00 - 11.40	Luc Wismans (Goudappel Coffeng) Multi-objective optimization of raffic systems (click here for the slides of the presentation)
11.50 - 12.30	Joris van de Klundert (UM/Mateum) Quality of service in infrastructure usage (click here for the slides of the presentation)
12.30 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 14.40	Marco Duijnisveld (TNO) European traffic forecasts: Iron Rhine (click here for the slides of the presentation)
14.50 - 15.30	Taede Tillema (RUG) Road pricing: analyzing short and long-term behavioural decisions (click here for the slides of the presentation)
15.40 - 16.20	Kevin Pak (ORTEC) Revenue management techniques for road pricing (click here for the slides of the presentation)
16.30 - 17.10	Elleke Janssen (UvT) Visitor flows in zoos and amusements parks: a case study in Apenheul (click here for the slides of the presentation)
17.10 - 18.00	Drinks

 

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