Pieter Van den Berg

Pieter van den Berg is an associate professor of transportation and logistics at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. His research focuses on the application of Operations Research to the logistics of emergency service providers and public transportation. His work has been published in leading journals in the field of Operations Research such as Transportation Science, European Journal of Operations Research and Interfaces, as well as medically oriented journals such as Injury Prevention and BMC Emergency Medicine. He obtained his MSc in Econometrics and Operations Research from VU University Amsterdam and his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Delft University of Technology.

Publications

Article

Jamili, N., van den Berg, P. L., & de Koster, R. (2022). Quantifying the impact of sharing resources in a collaborative warehouse. European Journal of Operational Research, 302(2), 518-529.

van Braak, M., Veen, M., Muris, J., van den Berg, P., & Giroldi, E. (2022). A professional knowledge base for collaborative reflection education: a qualitative description of teacher goals and strategies. Perspectives on Medical Education, 11(1), 53-59.

Brandt, T., Dlugosch, O., Abdelwahed, A., van den Berg, P., & Neumann, D. (2021). Prescriptive Analytics in Urban Policing Operations. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Accepted.

Abdelwahed, A., van den Berg, PL., Brandt, T., Ketter, W., & Mulder, J. (2021). A boost for urban sustainability: optimizing electric transit bus networks in Rotterdam. Journal on Applied Analytics, 51(5), 391-407.

Abdelwahed, A., Berg, P., Brandt, T., Collins, J., & Ketter, W. (2020). Evaluating and Optimizing Opportunity Fast-Charging Schedules in Transit Battery Electric Bus Networks. Transportation Science, 54(6), 1601-1615.

Van Den Berg, P. L., Fiskerstrand, P., Aardal, K., Einerkjær, J., Thoresen, T., & Røislien, J. (2019). Improving ambulance coverage in a mixed urban-rural region in Norway using mathematical modeling. PLoS ONE, 14(4), [e0215385].

van den Berg, P., & van Essen, JT. (2019). Scheduling non-urgent patient transportation while maximizing emergency coverage. Transportation Science, 53(2), 319-622.

Van Den Berg, P. L., & Theresia Van Essen, J. (2019). Comparison of static ambulance location models. International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 32(3-4), 292-321.

van den Boomen, M., van den Berg, P. L., & Wolfert, A. R. M. (2018). A dynamic programming approach for economic optimisation of lifetime-extending maintenance, renovation, and replacement of public infrastructure assets under differential inflation. Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, 15(2), 193-205.

Roislien, J., van den Berg, P., Lindner, T., Zakariassen, E., Uleberg, O., Aardal, K., & van Essen, JT. (2018). Comparing population and incident data for optimal air ambulance base locations in Norway. Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 26(42).

Garner, AA., & van den Berg, P. (2017). Locating helicopter emergency medical service bases to optimise population coverage versus average response time. BMC Emerging Medicine, 17(31).

van den Berg, P., Legemaate, GAG., & van der Mei, RD. (2017). Increasing the Responsiveness of Firefighter Services by Relocating Bases in Amsterdam. Interfaces, 47(4), 352-361.

Reuter-Opperman, M., van den Berg, P., & Vile, JL. (2017). Logistics for Emergency Medical Service systems. Health Systems, 6(3), 187-208.

Jagtenberg, CJ., van den Berg, P., & van der Mei, RD. (2016). Benchmarking online dispatch algorithms for Emergency Medical Services. European Journal of Operational Research, 258(2), 715-725.

Roislien, J., van den Berg, P., Lindner, T., Zakariassen, E., Aardal, K., & van Essen, JT. (2016). Exploring optimal air ambulance base locations in Norway using advanced mathematical modelling. Injury Prevention, 23(1), 10-15.

van den Berg, P., Kommer, GJ., & Zuzáková, B. (2016). Linear formulation for the Maximum Expected Coverage Location Model with fractional coverage. Operations Research for Health Care, 8, 33-41.

Aardal, K., van den Berg, P., Gijswijt, D., & Li, S. (2015). Approximation algorithms for hard capacitated k-facility location problems. European Journal of Operational Research, 242, 358-368.

van den Berg, P., & Aardal, K. (2015). Time-dependent MEXCLP with start-up and relocation cost. European Journal of Operational Research, 242, 383-389.

Henderson, S. G., Berg, P. L. V. D., Jagtenberg, C. J., & Li, H. (2022). How should volunteers be dispatched to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases? Queueing Systems, 100(3-4), 437-439.