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Name:
Lars Backåker
Type of employee:
Ph.D Student, Linköping University
Area of research:
Quantitative logistics, railway
Phone:
011 - 363481
E-mail:
lars.backaker (at) itn.liu.se
History:
2003 HT - Firefighter - Rescue Services Agency
2004 HT - KTS - Linköping University
2008 VT - TUE - Eindhoven
2008 HT - Volvo CE - Eskilstuna
2009 VT - Ph.D studies - Linköping University
Sparetime interests:
Trecking, adventures, biking, wildlife,
movies, music and friends

Research projects

The complexity of running rail freight operations in network based environments is well known and the area has received a lot of attention within the operations research (O.R) society. Today, several models and algorithms have been developed to support the planning process of rail freight operations, all the way from time tableing and scheduling of engines and crews down to specific car routing in the network. However, a lot of the complexity still remains and operators continue to strive for high asset utilization in an under capacitated network.

In this project, the focus shifts from planning enhancement activities to investigate how the actual customer agreements impact rail freight productivity, still with an O.R-approach, as a cornerstone for price differentiation strategies and customer evaluations.

Publications, conference proceedings and additionals

Type
Journal(J) / Conference(C)
Year
Titel (click to download)
Presentation
Transportforum (C)
2009
Analys av kunduppläggets karaktär (swedish)
Presentation
EURO XXIV Lisbon (C)
2010
Customer agreements within the rail freight industry
Presentation/Proceeding
NOFOMA 2011 (C)
2011
Strategies for Reduced Effects of Transport Demand Variability in Rail Freight Transportation

Teaching activities

One important part of my Ph.D studies is to be involved in the teaching actitvities that goes on here at Campus Norrköping. The courses that I am currently involved in are listed below. They can all, in some way or the other, be related to my area of research and the knowledge that I have gained so far in my own education.

Subject code
Subject name
2009 (Autumn)
2010 (Spring)
2010 (Autumn)
2011 (Spring)
TNSL03
Projekt inom Logistik
Supervision
(Not given)
Not participating
(Not given)
TNSL06
Teknik och logistik
Guest lecturer
(Not given)
Guest lecturer
(Not given)
TNK044
Transportsystem
Supervision
(Not given)
Supervision
(Not given)
TNK052
Intelligenta transportsystem
Guest lecturer/ assistant
(Not given)
Guest lecturer/ administration
(Not given)
TNK099
Logistiknätverk och transporter
(Not given)
Workshop
(Not given)
Not participating
TNK100
Planering av logistikresurser
(Not given)
Classroom assistant
(Not given)
Not participating
TNSL12
Projekt inom logistik (forts.)
Not participating
(Not given)
Supervision
(Not given)
TNK103
Tillämpad optimering
Not participating
(Not given)
Supervision
(Not given)
Masters Thesis
IKEA Sweden
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Supervision
Masters Thesis
Sweco Tools
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Supervision
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