Having sufficient inventories in the piece-picking area of a warehouse is an essential condition for warehouse operations. This requires a timely replenishment of the products from a reserve area in case they could run out of stock. In this paper we develop analytical models to arrive at priority rules for these replenishments in case replenishments and order picking are done simultaneously bec...

1 Department of Neurology, Erasmus Medical Centre, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus Medical Centre, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands 3 Department of Pathology, VU University Medical Centre, De Boelelaan 1117, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands 4 Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Centre, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands 5 DZNE, Germ...

Book review of: Lies Van de Vijver, Guy Dupont and Roel Vande Winkel, Gent Filmstad: Cinema’s en filmaffiches, 1938–1961 (Antwerpen/Amsterdam: Houtekiet, 2021), 278 pp., ISBN 978-90-8924-994-4 Gyz La Rivière, Home Video: Videotheken & Video in Groot-Rotterdam (Rotterdam: nai010 uitgevers, 432 978-94-6208-663-0.

This paper addresses the Rolling Stock Balancing Problem (RSBP). This problem arises at a passenger railway operator when the rolling stock has to be re-scheduled due to changing circumstances. These problems arise both in the planning process and during operations. The RSBP has as input a timetable and a rolling stock schedule where the allocation of the rolling stock among the stations does n...

We describe some research in progress performed for Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways) to determine a minimum circulation of train-units needed to execute a given timetable with given bounds on demands and capacities. 1. The problem Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways) runs an hourly train service on its route Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport-Leyden-The Hague-Rotterdam-Dordrecht-Roosendaal-Mi...