Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation

The project is centered in metropolitan transportation, comprising bus networks, rapid transit networks and metro. For the case of bus networks, aspects regarding congestion and time varying demand will be specially taken into account.

Analyze the possibilities of simulation use in the process related to the design of clinical trials, with the objective of reduce the time needed for evaluate new pharmaceutical products.

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Enterprises in the road transportation sector have to face several difficult challenges. Namely, they have to design distribution strategies and policies which combine economic efficiency with sustainability criteria. This issue is critical, especially for small and medium enterprises (SME), since they hardly have the economic and human resources necessary to implement and manage the complex mathematical methods associated with routing optimization -i.e. metaheuristics, mathematical programming methods, and so on.