主讲人：Leo Kroon
时间：2015年9月24日上午09：00
地点：九里校区01109会议室
报告主题：Robustness aspects in passenger railways
主讲人简介：
Leo Kroon is a professor of quantitative logistics at the Department of Technology and Operations Management, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).
Leo Kroon is a professor at RSM as well as a logistics consultant in the department of Process quality and Innovation Netherlands Railways (NS), the main operator of passenger trains in the Netherlands.
His main research interest is the development of decision support tools for the planning and real-time operations control of logistic systems, in particular public transport systems. His research involves close cooperation with practice and has resulted in numerous published articles in journals including Transportation Science, Transportation Research B, and Interfaces.
Professor Kroon was a member of the NS team that won the prestigious INFORMS Edelman Award 2008 for its model-based contributions to the development of the 2007 NS timetable. He is the recipient of 2008 ERIM Impact Award.
He was a coordinator of a Dutch team in the EU funded research projects AMORE and ARRIVAL.
Currently, he is one of the project leaders of EUR team in the EU funded research project ON TIME. This project focuses on robust planning and effective recovery of railway systems. Currently he is also the project leader of the NWO funded Complexity in Public Transport project. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Transportation Science.