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  • We make a good team outside of work as well

    15 Oct 2024

    Last Saturday we took part in Run for a Good Cause ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธ ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธ - a charity event organised by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science to support Tadzio Kaminski, the son of our colleague. The competition has faded into the background, it was a great chance to help those in need and have fun while doing this. Our team composed of four did a good job!
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  • Officially as team members

    01 Oct 2024

    1st of October we signed โœ’๏ธ Michal Bujak and Farnoud Ghasemi for our SUM project. This is the first day of the official cooperation with them as PhD Students. We are sure they both will bring added value ๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ’ก๐Ÿ’ก to the team.
  • Long long story... with a happy ending

    19 Sep 2024

    This is a happy end of the super long story that started in 2020, with results and submission in 2021, followed with 2 rejections from journals, one rejection due to lack of reviewers and a lot of minor revisions. In this particular case we waited 3 years to publish our results, which can be now followed and developed in npj Sustainable Mobility and Transport. In this paper we proved that we can identify pooled rides of up to 14 people, with occupancies of 6 and more, with our hyper-pool algorithm. This while remaining attractive to all travellers (against private ride) and in many cases even competing with PT (in Amsterdam, where PT quality is excellent). Already 200 trip requests per 30-min batch (4000 trips per hour) in Amsterdam allows to identify high-occupancy hyper-pooled trips. ๐Ÿ”– Our open access publication is available here!
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  • EWRL2024 is coming!

    10 Sep 2024

    Soon at 17th European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (October 28-30 2024) we will be talking about how autonomous vehicles with different behaviors may optimize their objectives and disrupt/enhance the traffic efficiency for the other drivers. You canโ€™t miss it.
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  • Good news during holidays

    29 Aug 2024

    Michal recently focuses on the optimisation of pricing in ride-pooling, specifically, he aims to capture the true heterogeneous nature of the population. We are proud to share that our first results in the topic have recently been published in Transportation! ๐ŸŽ‰ The article โ€˜Ride-pooling service assessment with heterogeneous travellers in non-deterministic settingโ€™ is available in open access. Good job, Michal! We encourage you to read ๐Ÿ“–
  • Farnoud's visit at TU Delft

    31 Jul 2024

    Farnoud has completed his 3-months PhD visit at TU Delft! During his visit, he had the privilege of working directly with Professor Oded Cats and together they initiated a new research project. Huge thanks to Peyman Ashkrof, Ph.D. and Arjan de Ruijter for their assistance. Looking forward to work on the material that Farnoud created in Delft!
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  • CEETRA's growth

    19 Jul 2024

    Last year at Jagiellonian University we set up the CEETRA (Central European Excellence in Transportation Research Association) initiative and good to see itโ€™s growing. This year in Vienna we participated in two research sessions and discussed the future of the association. If you are scientist with ambitions to make impact on transportation research, and you are from CEE (by location, origin or heart ๐Ÿ’›) reach us out!
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  • Hands full

    12 Jul 2024

    Next week we present our ride-Pooling experiment at IATBR International Conference on Travel Behavior in Vienna - we will show the potential of pooling with our ExMAS approach on 1.5 million trips from 6 months in NYC. Later we join 2nd CEETRA meeting, where Michal Bujak will present his pricing algorithm for ride-pooling. See you in Vienna! โœˆ๏ธ๐Ÿš‡ Presentation