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  • Our paper in SNAM

    19 May 2023

    New paper from the group. MichaΕ‚ Bujak and me introduce, formalize, analyse and utilise Network Structures of Ride Pooling problems - available OpenAccess in SNAM Journal

  • TRB 2023

    02 Jan 2023

    This week we present two posters on the TRB in Washington. Farnoud presents how to simulate market entry of Uber and Usman (or me on his behalf) presents what we found out about complexity of ride-pooling problems - see you at our sessions in DC!

  • Arek awarded!

    02 Dec 2022

    Congratulations Arkadiusz Drabicki for winning the Transport Research Arena Young Researchers Competition in the category Crossmodality! Arek was awarded for his work on Modelling the impacts of real-time crowding information in public transport in collaboration with prof. Oded Cats, Achille Fonzone, Andrzej Szarata and myself - good job Arek.

  • Paper published!

    11 Nov 2022

    Good job Jaime! Our paper (with Oded Cats) on the relation between spatial structure of the demand patterns and the shareability is now published in Transportmetrica:A

  • CASPT

    08 Nov 2022

    Long overdue, but I will present my work on hyper-pool in CASPT - believe it or not, but we submitted it before the pandemic (Feb 2020) and the conference comes only now, in Tel-Aviv. See slides and the pre-print

  • New collaboration

    09 Sep 2022

    We launched collaboration on Network-Science with the group of prof. Rob Kooij to exploit how networks shape the ride-pooling problems. Today I gave a seminar for his group in Delft.

  • TRB submissions and other successes

    05 Aug 2022

    πŸ‘ 1st Aug is a relief day for all transport-people, so it was for us, we can be happy with out TRB submissions, kudos to allπŸ‘:
    • 🧨 Farnoud Ghasemi made an intiguing ABM simulations of Uber rise and fall: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02496
    • 🧨 Usman Akhtar explored when and why the ride-pooling calculations explode: https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.02504
    moreover:
    • 🧨 Olha Shulika is closing up her Post-Pandemic Ride Pooling Review and
    • 🧨 Michal Bujak lately got accepted for Complex Networks conference with his probabilistic ride-pooling: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.12259
    That is not a bad outcome for the first 12 months of our group - let’s take some well-deserved rest: πŸβ›±πŸβ›±πŸβ›±πŸβ›±

  • Hyper pool algorithm from now on arXiv

    15 Jun 2022

    Our pre-print is out. Typically it is too early to announce, but this is super-exciting. We managed to push the limits of pooling to the edge: 14 co-travellers in an attractive hyper-pooled rides (turbo version of our ExMAS)

  • PLOS maassim

    08 Jun 2022

    Our flagship software is out and published. Along with a documented repository, the MaaSSim community have now the deeper and more formal documentation in PLOS One - hope it can help the community grow.

  • Finally in person at hEART

    06 Jun 2022

    After 2+ years, finally in person meeting with the community @ heart conference in Leuven. Six contributions from our side (Arkadiusz Drabicki, Michal Bujak, Marko Maricic, Peyman Ashkrof, Arjan de Ruijter and Farnoud Ghasemi presented results of our joint work). Plus a great keynote by prof. Oded Cats, summarizing roughly all on which our lab is founded, including ExMAS and MaaSSim.
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