Dr.-Ing. Mohammad Sadrani
Dr.-Ing. Mohammad Sadrani is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Railway Operations, TU Dresden. He received his Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) with highest honors (Summa Cum Laude) in June 2024. His doctoral research focused on optimizing public transport systems with electric and automated bus fleets. During his Ph.D., he contributed to interdisciplinary projects such as MO3 (IGSSE TUM) and COLTOC (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research), and published in leading journals in transportation, operations research, energy, and artificial intelligence. He also taught several M.Sc. courses at TUM and served as a lecturer at TUM Asia in Singapore.
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Public transport and rail operations
- Optimization and operations research in transport
- Transport electrification and automation
- Decision-making under uncertainty
2025
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Joint Optimization of Transit Network Design, Timetable, and Passenger Assignment With Exact Transfer Behavior Modeling , 9 Jun 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation SystemsElectronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Challenges in urban air mobility implementation: A comparative analysis of barriers in Germany and the United States , Jun 2025, In: Journal of air transport management. 126, 102780Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Dynamic Network Capacity Allocation Using Model Predictive Control With Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics , 12 May 2025, In: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 15 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Bus scheduling with heterogeneous fleets: Formulation and hybrid metaheuristic algorithms , 5 Mar 2025, In: Expert systems with applications : an international journal. 263, 125720Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Stop plan optimisation for three-pattern skip-stop schemes for urban rail transit systems , 2025, In: EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics. 14, 100149Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
2024
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Barriers to electrification of bus systems: A fuzzy multi-criteria analysis in developed and developing countries , 15 Aug 2024, In: Energy conversion and management. 314, 118700Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
2023
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Charging strategy selection for electric bus systems: A multi-criteria decision-making approach , 1 Oct 2023, In: Applied energy. 347, 121415Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Designing limited-stop bus services for minimizing operator and user costs under crowding conditions , Mar 2023, In: Public transport. 15, 1, p. 97–128, 32 p.Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
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Measuring crowding levels using circle packing method: Application at Hawaii's beaches , 2023, 2023 8th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, MT-ITS 2023. p. 1-6Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to book/conference proceedings/anthology/report > Conference contribution
2022
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Optimization of service frequency and vehicle size for automated bus systems with crowding externalities and travel time stochasticity , Oct 2022, In: Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. 143, 103793Electronic (full-text) versionResearch output: Contribution to journal > Research article
2024 - now | Post-doctoral researcher |
Chair of Rail and Public Urban Transport, Dresden University of Technology | |
2019 - 2024 |
Research Associate and Lecturer |
Chair of Transportation Systems Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM) |
- Decision Making in Enterprise Logistics (2025), TU Dresden
- Optimization for Transportation Systems (2021–2024), TU Munich
- Urban Operations Research for Transportation Systems (2022–2024), TU Munich
- Applied Statistics for Transportation Systems (2023), TU Munich
- Decision Support for Logistics Management (2022–2024), TUM Asia, Singapore
- Project Seminar – Transportation Systems (2022–2024), TU Munich
- Supervised seven completed Master’s theses at TU Munich

Mr Dr.-Ing. Mohammad Sadrani
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