Fabian Löbel, a PhD student at the Research Campus MODAL's MobilityLab, and Dr. Niels Lindner, the lab's head, have won the Best Student Paper Award at the 25th Symposium on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization and Systems (ATMOS), which was held on September 18-19, 2025, in Warsaw, Poland.
Their winning paper, titled "A Geometric Approach to Integrated Periodic Timetabling and Passenger Routing", offers new insights based on geometric ideas into the notoriously hard problem of determining attractive and efficient timetables for public transport while considering how passengers will actually use the system. A novel combinatorial algorithm is developed and tested against the state-of-the-art method that has previously been developed at MobilityLab as well. New best solutions are provided for 24 out of 27 instances of a public benchmark library.
The picture shows, from left to right, Fabian Löbel and Dr. Jonas Sauer of University of Bonn, Germany, co-chair of the ATMOS 2025 committee.
Congratulations!
