Bridging the gap between academics and practice
The research of the On Track Lab is situated in the world of real-time data analytics that guides decision-making within control rooms with a strong focus on the well-being of employees. What characterizes our research lab is the intensive collaboration between academia and industry.
We focus on:
- implementation in a real-world setting
- publications in high-quality journals
- presentations to disseminate our research efforts
Publications & work-in-progress
2024
* Cherchye L., De Rock B., Saelens D., Verschelde M., & Roets B., (2024). Productive efficiency analysis with unobserved inputs: An application to endogenous automation in railway traffic management. European Journal of Operational Research, 313(2), pp. 678-690.
2023
* Sobrie, L., Verschelde, M., & Roets, B. (forthcoming). Real-time employee workload analytics in digital control rooms. European Journal of Operational Research.
* Roets, B., Folkard, S., Assessing railway traffic controller safety with an hourly risk index (August 2023), in The Handbook of Fatigue Management in Transportation: Waking Up to the Challenge. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group.
* Sobrie, L., Verschelde, M., Hennebel, V. & Roets,. B. (2023). Capturing complexity over space and time via deep learning : An application to real-time delay prediction in railways. European Journal of Operational Research, 310(3), pp. 1201-1207.
2022
* Roets, B., & Folkard, S. (2022). Estimating hourly work schedule risk in railway traffic controllers. Safety Science, 151, 105757.
2020
* Dillon, R., Madsen, P., Roets, B., Topcu, T., & Triantis, K. (2020). The Autonomous Decision System Choice. In 20th Annual Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), Brussels.
2019
* Roets, B., & Christiaens, J. (2019). Shift work, fatigue, and human error: An empirical analysis of railway traffic control. Journal of Transportation Safety & Security, 11(2), 207-224.
* Topcu, T. G., Triantis, K., & Roets, B. (2019). Estimation of the workload boundary in socio-technical infrastructure management systems: The case of Belgian railroads. European Journal of Operational Research, 278(1), 314-329.
2018
* Roets, B., Verschelde, M., & Christiaens, J. (2018). Multi-output efficiency and operational safety: An analysis of railway traffic control centre performance. European Journal of Operational Research, 271(1), 224-237.
2015
* Roets, B., & Christiaens, J. (2015). Evaluation of railway traffic control efficiency and its determinants. European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 15(4).