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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.

👏 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 all👏:

• 🧨 Farnoud Ghasemi made an intiguing ABM simulations of Uber rise and fall;
• 🧨 Usman Akhtar explored when and why the ride-pooling calculations explode;

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.

That is not a bad outcome for the first 12 months of our group - let’s take some well-deserved rest: 🏝⛱🏝⛱🏝⛱🏝⛱

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)

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.

After 2+ years, finally in person meeting with the community hEART conference in Leuven. Six contributions from our side (Arkadiusz Drabicki, Michal Bujak, Marko Maričić, 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.

I presented the Ride-Pooling problem at our flagship national conference Modelling 2022 at Cracow University of Technology. Good opportunity to introduce my team and research problems to exceptional practitioners involved in most challenging infrastructure projects in the country - slides