About
Professor Chris Potts is a Professor within Mathematical Sciences at the ºÚÁÏÉç.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Combinatorial Optimization, especially scheduling in production and transport
Current research
Chris' research spans the following:
Air traffic management: scheduling of airport runways to improve throughput while maintaining minimum separation times between aircraft.
Train scheduling: increasing usage of the capacity imposed by the current infrastructure.
Vehicle routing and scheduling: design of local search methods for non-standard models that capture many of constraints that are present in real-world problems.
Production scheduling: design of models and development of algorithms for problems that are more closely related to industry practice than those of classical scheduling.
Research group
Affiliate research groups
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Research project(s)
Research work in rail capacity at Southampton was initiated with the OCCASION project (2010-2012), followed-up with a Knowledge Transfer Secondment with Arup (2013-14) and continues with the DITTO project (2014-2017). Research work on rail demand forecasting at Southampton was initiated with Rail Research UK (2003-2010) and has continued with a series of grants, contracts and consultancy studies.
Research projects
Completed projects
Publications
Teaching
Deterministic OR Methods
Biography
- University of Manchester, BSc in Mathematics
- University of Hull, MSc in Operational Research
- University of Birmingham, PhD in Operational research
Prizes
- ITC 2021: International Timetabling Competition on Sports Timetabling (First place) (2021)
- ITC 2021: International Timetabling Competition on Sports Timetabling (First place) (2021)