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SUMMARY:Optimization approaches applied to the strategic planning of trans
 portation infrastructures
DTSTART:20121206T110000
DTEND:20121206T123000
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Bruno F. Santos\n\nUniversity of Coimbra\, Portugal\nThe
  strategic decisions with regard to the investments in transportation infr
 astructures usually involve large amounts of money. Therefore\, decisions 
 should be carefully analyzed. Cost-benefit analysis\, usually based on tri
 al-and-error approaches\, does not allow the full exploration of the solut
 ion space. This can only be done using optimization techniques. This talk 
 will give an overview of the work developed by the author on the usage of 
 optimization approaches to solve strategic transportation investment plann
 ing problems. The different approaches will be illustrated with the applic
 ation to several case studies\, including the definition of national/regio
 nal road network plans and the location of freight intermodal terminals in
  Belgium.\n\nBruno F. Santos is an Assistant Professor at the University o
 f Coimbra\, Portugal. He finished is PhD in 2009 on the topic of Transport
 ation and Spatial Planning\, in a collaboration between the University of 
 Coimbra and the University of Toronto\, Canada. He had published several w
 orks on transportation planning topics and has been involved\, besides oth
 er research initiatives\, in the MIT-Portugal research and teaching progra
 m.
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