2026 Pieter Vansteenwegen: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	42	1780	1547	25	24	160	7770
Computer Science	43	7970	7743	78	74	187	8051

Pieter Vansteenwegen publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pieter Vansteenwegen sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 537+

This scientist: 160 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Pieter Vansteenwegen D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pieter Vansteenwegen sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

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

1255
Citations
Orienteering Problem: A survey of recent variants, solution approaches and applications

Aldy Gunawan;Hoong Chuin Lau;Pieter Vansteenwegen

723
Citations
Iterated local search for the team orienteering problem with time windows

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

455
Citations
The City Trip Planner

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

357
Citations
Joint maintenance and inventory optimization systems: A review

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

316
Citations
The Mobile Tourist Guide: An OR Opportunity

Pieter Vansteenwegen;Dirk Van Oudheusden

307
Citations
A Personalized Tourist Trip Design Algorithm For Mobile Tourist Guides

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

285
Citations
A guided Local Search Metaheuristic for the Team Orienteering Problem

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

259
Citations
Developing railway timetables which guarantee a better service

P. Vansteenwegen;D. Van Oudheusden

201
Citations
A survey on demand-responsive public bus systems

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187
Citations
A Path Relinking approach for the Team Orienteering Problem

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

179
Citations
The Multiconstraint Team Orienteering Problem with Multiple Time Windows

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

174
Citations
Decreasing the passenger waiting time for an intercity rail network

P. Vansteenwegen;D. Van Oudheusden

161
Citations
Integrating public transportation in personalised electronic tourist guides

Ander Garcia;Pieter Vansteenwegen;Olatz Arbelaitz;Wouter Souffriau

156
Citations
A fast solution method for the time-dependent orienteering problem

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

124
Citations
A review of cutting path algorithms for laser cutters

Reginald Dewil;Pieter Vansteenwegen;Dirk Cattrysse

120
Citations
Tourist trip planning functionalities: state-of-the-art and future

Wouter Souffriau;Pieter Vansteenwegen

109
Citations
Metaheuristics for Tourist Trip Planning

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

103
Citations
Reducing the passenger travel time in practice by the automated construction of a robust railway timetable

Peter Sels;Thijs Dewilde;Dirk Cattrysse;Pieter Vansteenwegen

101
Citations
Personalized tourist route generation

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

90
Citations
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

90
Citations
A fast solution method for the time-dependent orienteering problem with time windows

Cédric Verbeeck;El-Houssaine Aghezzaf;Pieter Vansteenwegen

4
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Cattrysse KU Leuven

Greet Van den Berghe KU Leuven

Kenneth Sörensen University of Antwerp

El-Houssaine Aghezzaf Ghent University

Francesco Corman ETH Zurich

Vincent F. Yu National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Peter Goos KU Leuven

Mario Vanhoucke Ghent University

Liliane Pintelon KU Leuven

Hoong Chuin Lau Singapore Management University

External Links

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