In recent years, power flows in many European transmission and distribution networks have increased, making the management of network congestion a much-debated - and increasing politicized - topic. This paper is an introduction to and a review of congestion management in European electricity...

We consider a model of bottleneck congestion in discrete time with a penalty cost for being late. This model can be applied to several situations where agents need to use a capacitated facility in order to complete a task before a hard deadline. A possible example is a situation where commuters...

Since 2008 and following the royal directives in the letter addressed to the participants of the sports conference in Skhirat, Morocco, major efforts have been made to promote mass and spectator sports practice in order to improve the sporting landscape and to solve problems related to financing...

We consider a novel generalization of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP). Unlike many established approaches for the RCPSP that aim to minimize the makespan of the project for given static capacity constraints, we consider the important real-life aspect that capacity...

This paper examines the relationship between the control of airport slots by major airlines and their incentives to engage in service quality. We investigate a set of airline strategies regarding possible practices of slot hoarding and slot concentration through mergers aiming at erecting...

Like in many large cities in developing countries, traffic in Grand Casablanca, Morocco, is congested and public buses are crowded. These conditions are alleviated by a combination of supply-side infrastructure expansions, such as more buses and new road capacity, and demand-side pricing...