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• Topics under supervision / finalized

  Currently under supervision

  • Optimizing Urban Waste Collection
  • Railway Crew Scheduling
  • Green Incentives in Customer Acceptance for Vehicle Routing
  • Mobile Parcel Lockers and Bike Delivery
  • Decision-focused learning for vehicle routing
  • Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing for Attended Home Deliveries
  • Congestion zones in routing
  • Reliability in Vehicle Routing
  • Vehicle Routing Problems with Congestion/Mixed Fleets
  • Mitigating Disruptions in Testing Kit Supply Chain: Strategies for Risk Management and Contingency Planning 
  • Location Inventory Problem for Perishable Products
  • Multi-Depot Green Vehicle Routing Problem
  • Integrated Locomotive and Crew Scheduling Problem
  • Optimizing restaurant meal delivery: integrating drones and electric bicycles to minimize delivery time
  • Reinforcement learning for vehicle routing problems
  • Machine Learning for Attended Home Deliveries
  • Utilization Forecasting of Long-Distance Trains at ÖBB

   

  Finalized

  For a full list of supervised Master's theses, see here

  (last updated: 12-09-2024)
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