| AMORE Final
Meeting Braunwald, Switzerland, January 18-21, 2004 |
The final meeting of the AMORE network was held January 18-21 2004, in Braunwald, in the Swiss Alps.
Photos (thanks to Riko Jacob!)
| Program |
| Sunday January 18th |
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| Afternoon | Arrival |
| 20.00 | Welcome dinner |
| Monday January 19th |
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| 09:00 - 10:30 | Invited lecture: Delay Management: Models, Approaches, and Results - Anita Schöbel |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Rescheduling of Rolling Stock - Leo Kroon |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Minimum Cuts for Railway Delay Minimization - Michael Gatto |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Homogenization and Railway Timetabling Norms - Michiel Vromans |
| 12:30 - 15:00 | Lunch break |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | A Solution Approach for Dynamic Vehicle and Crew Scheduling - Dennis Huisman |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | The Railway Traveling Salesman Problem - Petrica Pop |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | AMORE: The journey is the reward - Dorothea Wagner |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Business meeting |
| 18:00 | Local fondue dinner |
| Tuesday January 20th |
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| 09:00 - 09:45 | Invited lecture: Practical Aspects of Real-time Train Dispatching and Replanning - Peter Hellström |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Invited lecture: Dynamic Traffic Management - Dick Middelkoop |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Hierarchical Speed-up Techniques for Shortest-Path Algorithms - Martin Holzer |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Shunting on a Marshalling Yard with Fixed Directions - Sabine Cornelsen |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Multicommodity Flows with Elastic Demands and Applications to Railway Systems - Christos Zaroliagis |
| 12:30 - 15:30 | Snow lunch break |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Shunting Passenger Train Units in the Netherlands - Ramon Lentink |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | First Ideas for Delay Management Algorithms - Leon Peeters |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Final discussion |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| Wednesday January 21th |
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| Morning | Departure |
| Conference hotel |
The conference will be held at the Panorama Hotel Waldhaus in Braunwald, Switzerland. The hotel offers the following conference price packages:
This corresponds to euro prices of ± € 95 and ± € 115, respectively. The conference is by invitation only. For application or further information, please send an email to Leon Peeters, leon.peeters(at)inf.ethz.ch.
We have already reserved rooms for all registered participants.
| Getting there |
We advise you to travel to Zürich, either by train or plane. Zürich Airport is well-connected by train to downtown Zürich Central (Hauptbahnhof). From Zürich Central, Braunwald is easily reachable, using three modes of railway transport:
The total journey, including transfers between trains, takes 2 hours, and costs about CHF 40 = ± € 27 single way. We advise you to buy a ticket for the return trip in Zürich already, since Brauwald's railway station is very small and unregularly open. IMPORTANT: SBB's standard two-way tickets are valid only 24 hours! Therefore please specify the date of your return trip at the ticket counter.
There are also direct trains from Zürich Airport to Linthal, but those take 20 minutes more for the entire trip than a connection with a transfer at Zürich Central. More information on train connections between Zürich and Braunwald can be found at the Swiss Railways (SBB) Travel Online website: from Zürich (Hauptbahnhof) to Braunwald.
| Braunwald |
Braunwald is a car-free village, located in the southernmost part of the Glarnerland region. It faces the southeast and is located on a slightly sloped sun terrace, high above the Linth Valley at 1300 meters. Braunwald is far from traffic and a hectic lifestyle. The beautiful panorama of the Glarner Alps with Ortstock, Tödi, Biferten and Hausstock are all within clear view and appear just a step away.
Local AMORE contact: Leon Peeters |