Albert Steiner

Network

Membership of networks

• Accessibility Instruments For Planning Practice In Europe (COST Action TU1002)
• NECTAR (Network on European Communications and Transport Activities Research)
• American Geographical Society
• SOGI - Schweizerische Organisation für Geo-Information
• European Geosciences Union (EGU)
• Research Gate
• LinkedIn

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-1419-0610

Projects

• ZHAW Commuting 2024 / Team member / ongoing
• Smart UMH: Smart urban multihub concept: Sustainable and liveable cities with low logistics visibility / Deputy project leader / ongoing
• Sustainable commuting at ZHAW / Team member / completed
• Customer orientation in the Traffic Management System / Team member / completed
• Decision support for pandemics / Team member / completed
• Analysis of the temporal development of the spatial accessibility of regional centres by public transport for the region of Västra Götaland (Sweden) / Project leader / completed
• Investigation of the potential of GIS-based planning tools to compare accessibility of activity locations and local socio-demographic factors / Project leader / completed
• Development and implementation of spatial accessibility methods in the Västra Götaland region (Sweden) / Project leader / completed
• SBB-Research Funds 'Automated Timetable Planning' / Co-project leader / completed
• Flight Network Simulation at Swiss International Air Lines / Team member / completed
• cleverpendeln / Team member / completed
• Rail Transport Service Environment / Team member / completed
• Cooperational platform for urban logictis: An economically and ecologically efficient business model for the city of Zürich and other agglomerations / Team member / completed
• Development of a consistent approach for stock planning and allocation of Unit Load Devices (ULD) in international air transportation. / Team member / completed
• Developing new behavioural models for simulating pedestrian flows and an optimized revenue concept / Project leader / completed
• Innovation in train service operation based on Railtransport-Service Environment / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Papilloud, T. et al. (2024) 'Road network disruptions during extreme flooding events and their impact on the access to emergency medical services : a spatiotemporal vulnerability analysis', Science of The Total Environment, 956(177140). doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.177140.
• Erland, S., Bachmat, E. and Steiner, A. (2024) 'Let the fast passengers wait : boarding an airplane takes shorter time when passengers with the most bin luggage enter first', European Journal of Operational Research, 317(3), pp. 748–761. doi: 10.1016/j.ejor.2022.12.027.
• Larsson, A. et al. (2022) 'Exploring the potential for sustainable accessibility across settlement types : a Swedish case', Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 107(103297). doi: 10.1016/j.trd.2022.103297.
• Erland, S. et al. (2021) 'Lorentzian geometry and variability reduction in airplane boarding : slow passengers first outperforms random boarding', Physical Review E, 103(6), p. 062310. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.103.062310.
• Wüst, R. M. et al. (2019) 'Maintenance timetable planning based on mesoscopic infrastructure and the transport service intention', Journal of Rail Transport Planning & Management, 11, p. 100146. doi: 10.1016/j.jrtpm.2019.100146.
• Steiner, A. and Sick, B. (2008) 'A new method for travel time estimation on long freeway sections', European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 8(4), pp. 333–354. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4908.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Scherrer, M., Steiner, A. and Rühlin, V. (2023) 'Greening urban logistics : introducing a method to evaluate optimised decoupling hub locations', in Transportation Research Procedia. Elsevier, pp. 572–579. doi: 10.1016/j.trpro.2023.11.441.
• Steiner, A. et al. (2023) 'The effect of coopetition on driving distance in logistics in urban areas', in 5th VREF Conference on Urban Freight, Gotenburg, Sweden, 18-20 October 2023.
• Füchslin, R. M. et al. (2023) 'Ethical aspects of computational modelling in science, decision support and communication', in Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation. Cham: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-23929-8_24.
• Scherrer, M., Steiner, A. and Rühlin, V. (2022) 'Decoupling hubs for sustainable urban logistics : introducing a method to define optimal locations', in 6th World Conference on Production and Operations Management (P&OM), online, 23-25 August 2022.
• Bütikofer, S. et al. (2022) 'Efficient timetable stability analysis using a graph contraction procedure', in Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance, Montpellier, France, 22-25 August 2022. ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-27165.
• Larsson, A. et al. (2021) 'A multi-modal, multi-activity, multi-scalar analysis for sustainable accessibility planning', in World Symposium on Transport and Land Use Research 2021, online, 9-11 August 2021.
• Bütikofer, S., Steiner, A. and Wüst, R. (2020) 'Periodic timetabling with flexibility based on a mesoscopic topology', in Operations Research Proceedings 2019. Cham: Springer, pp. 789–795. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-48439-2_96.
• Wüst, R. et al. (2019) 'Improvement of maintenance timetable stability based on iteratively assigning event flexibility in FPESP', in Peterson, A., Joborn, M., and Bohlin, M. (eds) RailNorrköping 2019. Linköping: Linköping University Electronic Press, pp. 1140–1157. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-18282.
• Wüst, R. et al. (2019) 'Periodic timetabling with 'Track Choice'-PESP based on given line concepts and mesoscopic infrastructure', in Operations Research Proceedings 2018. Cham: Springer, pp. 571–578. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18500-8_71.
• Steiner, A. (2019) 'A three-step floating catchment area method to quantify the spatial accessibility of healthcare facilities for citizens', in 15th biennal NECTAR Conference, Helsinki, Finland, 5-7 June 2019.
• Bütikofer, S. and Steiner, A. (2016) 'Extension and application of a general pickup and delivery model for evaluating the impact of bundling goods in an urban environment', in Operations Research Proceedings 2014. Cham: Springer, pp. 83–89. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-28697-6_13.
• Steiner, A. and Leonhardt, A. (2014) 'Speed and lane dependent net time headway distributions on freeways : comparing empirical and simulated data', in TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers. Washington: Transportation Research Board, pp. 1–17.
• Wüst, R. et al. (2013) 'RTSE, a multi-component closed-loop control framework for railway networks', in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems 2013. Dresden: TUDpress, pp. 367–375.
• Wüst, R. M. and Steiner, A. (2012) 'A multi-component closed-loop control framework for rail traffic networks', in 12th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, 2-4 May 2012. Available at: http://www.strc.ch/2012/Wuest_Steiner.pdf.
• Leonhardt, A. and Steiner, A. (2012) 'Instance based learning for estimating and predicting traffic state variables using spatio-temporal traffic patterns', in TRB 91rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers. Washington: Transportation Research Board.
• Steiner, A. and Leonhardt, A. (2011) 'Map-generation algorithm using low-frequency vehicle position data', in TRB 90th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers. Washington: Transportation Research Board, pp. 1–17.

Other publications

• Bütikofer, S. et al. (2023) 'Steigerung der ÖV-Attraktivität durch Optimierung der Anschlusse von Bus zu Bahn', ETR – Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau, 2023(11), pp. 74–77.
• Steiner, A. and Scherrer, M. (2021) 'Die Zukunft der Mobilität gemeinsam gestalten', Mobility Impacts, 2021(2), pp. 40–41.
• Wüst, R. et al. (2018) Development of a prototype for the automated generation of timetable scenarios specified by the transport service intention. St. Gallen: SBB Forschungsfonds HSG. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-18564.
• Schmelzer, H. et al. (2017) Kooperationsplattform für die urbane Güterlogistik : Schlussbericht.
• Wüst, R. M., Steiner, A. and Gomez, C. (2017) 'Kundenfreundliche und robuste Ersatzfahrpläne während Bau- und Unterhaltsintervallen', ETR – Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau, 2017(10), pp. 57–61. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-4791.
• Leber, M. et al. (2012) 'Die Wege der Menschen sind nicht unergründlich', Technische Rundschau, 2012(2), pp. 12–15.
• Steiner, A. et al. (2011) 'E-Gates at Zurich Airport', International Airport Review, 15(6), p. 29.
• Steiner, A. and Philipp, M. (2009) 'Speeding up the airplane boarding process by using pre-boarding areas', in 9th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, 9-11 September 2009.
• Steiner, A. and Sick, B. (2008) New methods for travel time estimation on freeway sections. Winterthur: ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-117.
• Steiner, A. (2008) 'An improved method for travel time estimation on long freeway sections', in Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, 15-17 October 2008.
• Steiner, A., Eigel, E. and Wüst, U. (2007) 'Flottenmanagement der Schweizer Luftwaffe - schnelle Reaktion dank intelligenter Planung', INTRA, 2007(1), pp. 46–47.
• Steiner, A. (2006) 'A heuristic method for aircraft maintenance scheduling under various constraints', in 6th Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, 15-17 March 2006.
• Meierhofer, J., Heitz, C. and Steiner, A. (2004) 'Simulation based case studies for management training in the fields of production and supply chain Management', in Automation and logistics for manufacturing in Switzerland. Brugg: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-1884.
• Meierhofer, J. and Steiner, A. (2004) 'Quantitative assessment and capacity planning of business processes in the service sector', in Automation and logistics for manufacturing in Switzerland. Brugg: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW.
• Steiner, A., Hosang, J. and Meierhofer, J. (2004) 'Vehicular traffic data analysis and its benefits to prevent traffic congestion', in Proceedings of the IPLnet 2004 Workshop. IPLnet.
• Barta, J. et al. (2003) 'A tool for preventive aircraft maintenance scheduling', in Proceedings of the IPLnet 2003 Workshop. IPLnet.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• Bütikofer, S. et al. (2022) 'Efficient timetable stability analysis using a graph contraction procedure', in Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology: Research, Development and Maintenance, Montpellier, France, 22-25 August 2022.
• Larsson, A. and Steiner, A. (2019) 'Challenges of implementing equity-based accessibility thresholds for different modes of transport : a comparison of Gothenburg and Zurich regions', in AESOP 2019 Conference : Book of Abstracts.
• Wüst, R. M. et al. (2019) 'Improvement of maintenance timetable stability based on iteratively assigning event flexibility in FPESP', in 8th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (ICROMA), Norrköping, Sweden, 17-20 June 2019.
• Wüst, R. M. et al. (2018) 'Periodic timetabling with 'Track Choice'-PESP based on given line concepts and mesoscopic infrastructure', in OR2018, Operations Research Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 12-14 September 2018. Available at: https://www.euro-online.org/conf/admin/tmp/program-or2018.pdf.
• Bütikofer, S., Wüst, R. M. and Steiner, A. (2018) 'Periodic timetabling with 'Track Choice'-PESP based on given line concepts and mesoscopic infrastructure', in EULOG 2018: Entscheidungsunterstützung in der Logistik, Linz, Österreich, 4.-5. Oktober 2018.
• Steiner, A. (2010) 'Visualizing traffic data with Google Earth : real-time air traffic in 3D', in Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, 1-3 September 2010.
• Steiner, A., Philipp, M. and Schmid, A. (2007) 'Parameter estimation for a pedestrian simulation model', in Swiss Transport Research Conference, Ascona, 12-14 September 2007.
• Sick, B. and Steiner, A. (2007) 'Travel time estimation for long freeway sections', in Swiss Statistics Meeting, Lucerne, Switzerland, 14-16 November 2007.

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