Publications

Selected publications

Selected publications in dynamic fleet management, multimodal logistics, autonomous mobility, and operational coordination.

This page presents selected publications related to dynamic fleet management, multimodal logistics, autonomous mobility, and operational coordination. My University of Twente research profile and Google Scholar provide the complete current lists.

Coordination and synchronization

2025

A two-echelon multi-trip vehicle routing problem with synchronization for an integrated water- and land-based transportation system

Ç. Karademir, B. A. Beirigo, and B. Atasoy. European Journal of Operational Research.

Synchronizes waterborne and street vehicles in an integrated two-echelon system with multiple trips.

DOI · UT record

2023

Beyond Cargo Hitching: Combined people and freight transport using dynamically configurable autonomous vehicles

J. J. A. Kortekaas, B. A. Beirigo, and F. Schulte. Computational Logistics.

Studies vehicles whose configuration changes to serve passengers and freight in a combined system.

DOI

2021

The Share-A-Ride Problem with integrated routing and design decisions

M. van der Tholen, B. A. Beirigo, J. Jovanova, and F. Schulte. Computational Logistics.

Connects routing with vehicle-compartment design for mixed-purpose shared autonomous vehicles.

DOI

Dynamic fleet decisions

2022

A learning-based optimization approach for autonomous ridesharing platforms with service-level contracts and on-demand hiring of idle vehicles

B. A. Beirigo, F. Schulte, and R. R. Negenborn. Transportation Science.

Uses approximate value information to dispatch, rebalance, and hire vehicles under uncertain demand and supply.

DOI

2022

A business class for autonomous mobility-on-demand

B. A. Beirigo, R. R. Negenborn, J. Alonso-Mora, and F. Schulte. Transportation Research Part C.

Models service-quality contracts for heterogeneous users in dynamic ridesharing systems.

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Integrated people and freight

2018

Integrating people and freight transportation using shared autonomous vehicles with compartments

B. A. Beirigo, F. Schulte, and R. R. Negenborn. IFAC-PapersOnLine.

An early fleet-design contribution to combining passenger and freight flows using flexible autonomous vehicles.

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Doctoral thesis

PhD

Dynamic Fleet Management for Autonomous Vehicles

Learning- and Optimization-Based Strategies. Delft University of Technology, 2021.

The thesis studies repeated fleet decisions under uncertainty, service differentiation, anticipatory rebalancing, and the connection between machine learning and optimization.

Read the thesis