Demand Management and Sustainable Transport

About us

Welcome to the Mercator Endowed Chair of Demand Management & Sustainable Transport. Our work is focussed on developing innovative digital technologies to enable sustainable transportation. One major theme in that context is the combination of demand management concepts (such as dynamic pricing or availability control of services) and classic transportation/logistics management (such as route optimisation) so as to increase sustainability.

Our work encompasses planning and control problems in urban logistics, mobility as well as air traffic management. Typically, these applications involve customer choice modelling, optimal control, large-scale optimisation and optimal learning. We develop solutions in collaboration with various stakeholders.

Team

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Professor Dr. Arne Strauss

Chairholder

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Johanna Häring

Personal Assistant

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Post-Doctoral Researcher

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Jan-Rasmus Künnen

Research Assistant / Doctoral Candidate

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Teaching

Our Teaching -
Courses offered in 2020/21

BSc Programme:

Data Science for Business
Pricing Analytics
Sustainable Urban Transport

Doctoral Programme:

Fundamentals of Optimisation

Research & Publications

Our publications –
A selection of journal articles.

European Journal of Operational Research
Dynamic pricing of flexible time slots for attended home delivery.

Arne Strauss, Nalan Gülpınar, Yijun Zheng (2020)

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Transportation Science
Air Traffic Control Capacity Planning under Demand and Capacity Provision Uncertainty.

Starita, S., Strauss, A.K., Fei, X. Jovanovic, R. Ivanov, N.; Pavlovic, G.; Fichert, F.

Production and Operations Management
Tractable consideration set structures for assortment optimization and network revenue management.

Strauss, A.K. and Talluri, K. (2017)

Transportation Science
Choice-Based Demand Management and Vehicle Routing in E-fulfilment.

Yang, X., Strauss, A. K., Currie, C. and Eglese, R. (2016)

Production and Operations Management
An Enhanced Concave Program Relaxation for Choice Network Revenue Management.

Meissner, J., Strauss, A.K. and Talluri, K. (2013)

European Journal of Operational Research
A Review of Revenue Management: Recent Generalizations and Advances in Industry Applications.

Klein, R, Koch, S, Steinhardt, C., Strauss, A.K.

Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal
Home Healthcare Routing and Scheduling of Multiple Nurses in a Dynamic Environment.

Demirbilek, M, Branke, J and Strauss, A.

Journal of Air Transport Management
Coordinated capacity and demand management in a redesigned Air Traffic Management value-chain.

Jovanovic, R, Fichert, F. Ivanov, N. Pavlovic, G. Strauss, A. Starita, S., Babic, O. (2019)

Health Care Management Science
Dynamically Accepting and Scheduling Patients for Home Healthcare.

Demirbilek, M., Branke, J. and Strauss, A. (2019)

Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management
Unconstraining methods for revenue management systems under small demand.

Kourentzes, N., Li, D. and Strauss, A.K. (2019)

Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management
Future Research Directions in Demand Management.

Currie, C.S.M.; Dokka, T.; Harvey, J.; Strauss, A.K. (2018)

European Journal of Operational Research
A Review of Choice-based Revenue Management: Theory and Methods.

Strauss, A.K.; Klein, R. and Steinhardt, C. (2018)

European Journal of Operational Research
An approximate dynamic programming approach to attended home delivery management.

Yang, X. and Strauss, A.K. (2017)

Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Air Traffic Flow Management Slot Allocation to Minimize Propagated Delay.

Ivanov, N., Netjasov, F., Jovanovic, R., Starita, S., and Strauss, A. (2017)

News & stories

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Making Use Of Dynamic Time Slot Management

Online retailers face significant challenges due to the corona crisis

Two Million Euros In Research Funding

The European Commission has approved funding for the development of the CADENZA air traffic management system. In addition to WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management, the University of Belgrade, the University of Applied Sciences Worms and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya as well as...