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Pieter Vansteenwegen

Pieter Vansteenwegen

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Computer Science

D-Index
43
Citations
8051
World Ranking
7971
National Ranking
78

Mathematics

D-Index
42
Citations
7770
World Ranking
1780
National Ranking
25

Overview

Pieter Vansteenwegen is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, focusing their research primarily within the fields of Engineering and Social Sciences. Their scholarly work spans subfields such as Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Transportation, and Automotive Engineering, among others.

The main themes of Pieter Vansteenwegen's research encompass a wide range of topics related to transportation and optimization. These include:

  • Transportation Planning and Optimization
  • Transportation and Mobility Innovations
  • Vehicle Routing Optimization Methods
  • Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics Optimization
  • Railway Systems and Energy Efficiency
  • Smart Parking Systems Research
  • Urban and Freight Transport Logistics

Vansteenwegen has contributed to academic literature with numerous publications across notable venues. The most frequent publication outlets for their work are:

  • European Journal of Operational Research
  • Computers & Operations Research
  • Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
  • Applied Soft Computing
  • Journal of Advanced Transportation

Collaborative research is a significant aspect of their profile, with frequent co-authors including Aldy Gunawan, Kenneth Sörensen, Bryan David Galarza Montenegro, Javier Durán-Micco, and Audrey Tedja Widjaja.

A selection of representative papers authored or co-authored by Pieter Vansteenwegen includes:

  • A survey on demand-responsive public bus systems, 2022, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
  • An Exact Algorithm for Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling with Time-Dependent Profits, 2020, Computers & Operations Research
  • A survey on the transit network design and frequency setting problem, 2021, Public Transport
  • A large neighborhood search algorithm to optimize a demand-responsive feeder service, 2021, Transportation Research Part C Emerging Technologies
  • Solving the Agile Earth Observation Satellite Scheduling Problem With Time-Dependent Transition Times, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems

The research output reflects a strong focus on transportation systems and optimization algorithms, contributing knowledge to the planning and operational challenges within public transit and related domains.

Best Publications

  • The orienteering problem: A survey

    Pieter Vansteenwegen;Wouter Souffriau;Dirk Van Oudheusden

  • Orienteering Problem: A survey of recent variants, solution approaches and applications

    Aldy Gunawan;Hoong Chuin Lau;Pieter Vansteenwegen

  • Iterated local search for the team orienteering problem with time windows

    Pieter Vansteenwegen;Wouter Souffriau;Greet Vanden Berghe;Dirk Van Oudheusden

  • The City Trip Planner

    Pieter Vansteenwegen;Wouter Souffriau;Greet Vanden Berghe;Dirk Van Oudheusden

  • Joint maintenance and inventory optimization systems: A review

    Adriaan Van Horenbeek;Jasmine Buré;Dirk Cattrysse;Liliane Pintelon

  • The Mobile Tourist Guide: An OR Opportunity

    Pieter Vansteenwegen;Dirk Van Oudheusden

  • A Personalized Tourist Trip Design Algorithm For Mobile Tourist Guides

    Wouter Souffriau;Pieter Vansteenwegen;Joris Vertommen;Greet Vanden Berghe

  • A guided Local Search Metaheuristic for the Team Orienteering Problem

    Pieter Vansteenwegen;Wouter Souffriau;Greet Vanden Berghe;Dirk Van Oudheusden

  • Developing railway timetables which guarantee a better service

    P. Vansteenwegen;D. Van Oudheusden

  • A survey on demand-responsive public bus systems

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  • A Path Relinking approach for the Team Orienteering Problem

    Wouter Souffriau;Pieter Vansteenwegen;Greet Vanden Berghe;Dirk Van Oudheusden

  • The Multiconstraint Team Orienteering Problem with Multiple Time Windows

    Wouter Souffriau;Pieter Vansteenwegen;Greet Vanden Berghe;Dirk Van Oudheusden

  • Decreasing the passenger waiting time for an intercity rail network

    P. Vansteenwegen;D. Van Oudheusden

  • Integrating public transportation in personalised electronic tourist guides

    Ander Garcia;Pieter Vansteenwegen;Olatz Arbelaitz;Wouter Souffriau

  • A fast solution method for the time-dependent orienteering problem

    Cedric Verbeeck;Kenneth Sörensen;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf;Pieter Vansteenwegen;Pieter Vansteenwegen

  • A review of cutting path algorithms for laser cutters

    Reginald Dewil;Pieter Vansteenwegen;Dirk Cattrysse

  • Tourist trip planning functionalities: state-of-the-art and future

    Wouter Souffriau;Pieter Vansteenwegen

  • Metaheuristics for Tourist Trip Planning

    Pieter Vansteenwegen;Wouter Souffriau;Greet Vanden Berghe;Dirk Van Oudheusden

  • Reducing the passenger travel time in practice by the automated construction of a robust railway timetable

    Peter Sels;Thijs Dewilde;Dirk Cattrysse;Pieter Vansteenwegen

  • Personalized tourist route generation

    Ander Garcia;Olatz Arbelaitz;Maria Teresa Linaza;Pieter Vansteenwegen

  • Agile earth observation satellite scheduling: An orienteering problem with time-dependent profits and travel times

    Guansheng Peng;Guansheng Peng;Reginald Dewil;Cédric Verbeeck;Aldy Gunawan

  • A fast solution method for the time-dependent orienteering problem with time windows

    Cédric Verbeeck;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf;Pieter Vansteenwegen

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth Sörensen
Kenneth Sörensen University of Antwerp
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf
El-Houssaine Aghezzaf Ghent University
Vincent F. Yu
Vincent F. Yu National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Peter Goos
Peter Goos KU Leuven
Mario Vanhoucke
Mario Vanhoucke Ghent University
Hoong Chuin Lau
Hoong Chuin Lau Singapore Management University

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