Prof. Dr. Francesco Corman
Prof. Dr. Francesco Corman
Associate Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Head of Inst. Transport Planning and Systems
ETH Zürich
Professur für Transportsysteme
Ongoing projects
- E-Bike City: Designing sustainable streets
- ESTRA: Efficient Safe Train Dynamics
- LeRaBe: Learning railways for better schedules
- NCCR: Dynamic stochastic learning of train dynamics as enabler to highly automated train operation
- SORRI: Learning real-life constraints and objectives to determine timetables optimised for robustness interactively
- UrbanEcho: Envisioning tomorrow - A digital twin technology for sustainable urban planning in data poor regions
Completed projects (selection)
2015
Integrated train & traffic control
Models for energy efficient railway traffic control
- State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing
2013-2015
ONTIME
Optimal Networks for Train Integration Management across Europe
- Funding: EU-FP7 7.8 MEuro
2013-2015
Trans ITS
Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of ITS
- Management Committee, Working Group. EU COST (TU1004). 530 kEuro
2013
ITT - Inter Terminal Transport
Advanced transport solutions for container transport between multiple terminals
- Funding: Port of Rotterdam
2013
Passenger flows
Dynamic train traffic control models with passenger choices
- Funding: State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing
2012
ERTMS Capacity Study
Capacity assessment of advanced signaling system on the Dutch Railway Network
- Funding: Dutch Parliament, 120 kEuro
Education
2007-2010
Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.)
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Dissertation title: Real-time Railway Traffic Management: Dispatching in complex, large and busy railway networks
2004-2006
Master's Degree
Management & Automation Engineering at Roma TRE University, Italy
- Dissertation title: Routing and scheduling trains in real-time
- Principal subjects covered: Operations research, project management, control, telecommunications
2001-2004
Bachelor's Degree
Computer Science Engineering at Roma TRE University, Italy
- Dissertation title: Routing and scheduling trains in real-time
- Principal subjects covered: Operations research, computer science, control & telecommunication systems
Professional experience (selection)
Since 2017
Associate Professor of Transort Systems
Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT) ETH Zurich
Main activities and research interests:
- Analytics, optimization and control in transport systems
- Focusing on operations, public transport, railway networks, logistics systems
2016-2017
Senior Data Scientist
IBM The Netherlands, Global Business Services
Main activities and research interests:
- Acquired and managed 8 research projects, 100+ kEuro as principal investigator, 10+MEuro as co-applicant; International cooperation, 6 research grants
- Dissemination of research results at 20+ conferences and workshops for academia and practitioners; 50+ scientific publications
- Managing 4 researchers and PhDs, coaching 20+applied projects per year, teaching four courses in two engineering master programs
- Research on railways (planning, technologies, reliability, control, delays, maintenance, equity); multimodal freight logistics, mathematical optimization.