• Freight Logistics
• Railway Operations Management
• Public Transportation
• Supply Chain Management
• Warehouse Operations Management
• Operations Research
• Simulation

• Anoop, K. P., Panicker, V. V., Siby, J., and Aryadutt, C. S., 2025. Multi-objective optimization algorithms for freight allocation in a food grain supply chain. Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 171, 112729. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2025.112729
• Kumar, M., and Anoop, K. P., 2024. An innovative modelling framework for freight consolidation in transportation planning. IIMB Management Review. Accepted for publication, in press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iimb.2025.100550
• Bansal, A., Anoop, K. P., and Rangaraj, N., 2024. Heuristic for Railway Crew Scheduling with Connectivity of Schedules. Transportation Research Record. Vol. 2678, No. 8, pp. 873-887. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231223190
• Anoop K. P., Reddy, A. M., Bhatia, M. S., Jain, A. K., Gopalakrishnan, R., Salekin, M., Singh, S. P., Satwik, R. V., Pulapadi, S., Bobade, C., Kumar, I. S., Shivasubramanian, G., Appaiah, K., Rangaraj, N., and Belur, M. N., 2023. Rationalized timetabling using a simulation tool: a paradigm shift in Indian Railways. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics (Formerly known as Interfaces). Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 295-306. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2023.1158
• Anoop, K. P. and Panicker, V. V., 2022. Multimodal transportation planning with freight consolidation and volume discount on rail freight rate. Transportation Letters, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 227-244. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19427867.2020.1852504
• Anoop, K. P., Panicker, V. V. and Pathari, V., 2022. Food grain rake allocation planning considering inventory and warehouse parameters – A model and application for India. Research in Transportation Business & Management, Vol. 44, Article id: 100628. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2021.100628
• Anoop, K. P., Panicker, V. V., Das, A. S., Abhishek, T., Vadlamani, P. S. and Akhil, U. S., 2020. Simulation modelling and analysis of warehouse operations in a food grain supply chain. International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 465-487. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJLSM.2020.111853
• Sawant, N. V., Panicker, V. V. and Anoop, K. P., 2020. Predictive models for rail-wagon detention in food grain logistics: a technological intervention. International Journal of Value Chain Management, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 250-272. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJVCM.2020.109238
• Anoop, K. P., Panicker, V. V., Narayanan, M. and Sunil Kumar, C. T., 2018. A mathematical model and solution methods for rail freight transportation planning in an Indian food grain supply chain. Sadhana, Vol. 43, Article No. 200. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-018-0958-z
• Anoop, K. P., Panicker, V. V. and Sunil Kumar, C. T., 2016. Operations of Food Corporation of India: An Overview. Industrial Engineering Journal, Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 29-35.

• Anoop K. P. and Narayan Rangaraj, 2025. Tactical level rail freight crew planning: A case study on Indian Railways network. Accepted for presentation in the 11^th International Conference on Railway Operations Modelling and Analysis (RailDresden 2025) to be organized by the International Association of Railway Operations Research (IAROR) at TU Dresden, Germany, during 1-4 April 2025.
• Neeraj Naik, Karthik G. Kalal, Mohanish Kumar, K. P. Anoop, Merajus Salekin, Ravi Mohan Sharma, Madhu N. Belur and Narayan Rangaraj, 2024. Speed differential impact on bottleneck section: an analysis with a case study on Indian Railways section. Presented at the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Business Analytics and Management Sciences and the 57th Annual Convention of the ORSI, 12-14 December, 2024, Mumbai, India. https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~belur/pdfs/c24orsi2-bsp.pdf
• Anoop K. P. and Narayan Rangaraj, “Robust tactical crew planning for freight rail operation.” Presentated at the 56th Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India (2023-ORSI) and 10th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (2023-ICBAI) held at IISc Bangalore during 18 - 20 December 2023.
• Meenarli Sharma and Anoop K. P., “An integer programming approach to solving a real-world multimodal freight transportation problem.” Presented at the 56th Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India (2023-ORSI) and 10th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (2023-ICBAI) held at IISc Bangalore during 18 - 20 December 2023.
• Manoj Kumar and Anoop K. P., “An innovative modelling framework for freight consolidation in transportation planning", presented at the Ninth International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (BAICONF 2022), 15 - 17 December 2022, IIM Bangalore, India.
• Anoop K. P., Akshat Bansal, and Narayan Rangaraj, “An algorithmic approach for lower bound calculation in railway crew scheduling”, presented at the 15th International Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT2022), 6-10 November 2022, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Akshat Bansal, Anoop K. P., and Narayan Rangaraj, "Railway crew scheduling: A case study of Indian Railways", presented at the 32nd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO 2022), 3-6 July 2022, Espoo, Finland.
• Akshat Bansal, Anoop K. P., and Narayan Rangaraj, "Exact and heuristic approaches for the Railway crew scheduling", presented at the 6th AIROYoung Workshop, 23-25 February 2022, Rome, Italy (presented online).
• Anoop K. P., Narayan Rangaraj, and Madhu Belur, "A heuristic based approach for freight path generation in a mixed traffic rail network", presented at the 8th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (ICBAI 2021), 20-22 December 2021, IISc Bangalore, India (online mode). https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~belur/pdfs/c21icbai.pdf
• Anoop K. P., Narayan Rangaraj and Madhu Belur, "A simulation-based tool for crew planning in rail freight services", presented at the 54th Annual Convention of ORSI and International Conference on Applications of Operational Research in Business and Industries (AORBI 2021), 17-19 December 2021, Indore, India. https://www.ee.iitb.ac.in/~belur/pdfs/c21aorbi-orsi.pdf
• Anoop, K. P. and Panicker, V. V., 2020. Redirecting freight trains: an exact optimization approach. Transportation Research Procedia, Vol. 48, pp. 137-149. DOI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146520304282, Presented at the 15th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR 2019), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, May 26-31, 2019.
• Anoop, K. P. and Panicker, V. V., 2016. Heuristic based Transportation Planning for a Food Grain Supply Chain. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (ICBAI), IISc Bangalore, India, December 19-21, 2016.
• Anoop, K. P. and Panicker, V. V., 2016. Rail-road transportation planning for a food grain supply chain. In Proceedings of the 49th Annual Convention of the Operational Research Society of India and International Conference on Analytics in Operational Research, Birla Institute of Management Technology, Greater Noida, New Delhi, India, December 12-14, 2016.
• Anoop, K. P. and Panicker, V. V., 2016. Freight Transportation Planning in a Multimodal Transportation Network. In Proceedings of the 58th National Convention of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering and International Conference on Smart Strategies for Digital World - Industrial Engineering Perspective, Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering & Management, Nagpur, India, October 21-22, 2016.
• Anoop, K. P., Manu, N. and Panicker, V. V., 2016. Optimization and Simulation of the Transportation Plan in a Food-grain Supply Chain. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Industrial Engineering & Technology Management (NCIETM 2016), National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai, India, November 17-19, 2016. 

• Sawant, N. V., Panicker, V. V. and Anoop, K. P., 2021. Predictive Analytics in Food Grain Logistics: Supervised Machine Learning Approach. In: Tyagi, M., Sachdeva, A. and Sharma, V. (eds) Optimization Methods in Engineering (pp. 459–466). Part of the Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering book series. Springer, Singapore. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4550-4_28 
  (Print ISBN: 978-981-15-4549-8, Online ISBN: 978-981-15-4550-4, Published: 6 June 2020)

• First Best Paper Award (Industry Category) - 56^th Annual Convention of the Operational Research Society of India (2023-ORSI) and 10^th International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (2023-ICBAI) held at IISc Bangalore, 2023.
• Commendable Paper Award - Ninth International Conference on Business Analytics and Intelligence (BAICONF 2022) held at IIM Bangalore, 2022.
• B. G. Raghavendra Memorial (Best Application Paper) Award - 49^th Annual Convention of the Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) and International Conference on ‘Analytics in Operational Research’ held at Birla Institute of Management Technology, 2016.
• First position in the group for the research paper presented at the 58^th National Convention of the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE) and International Conference on “Smart Strategies for Digital World – Industrial Engineering Perspective” held at Shri Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, 2016.

Current projects:

• Collaborating as an external research consultant in a project on evaluation of the Smart Cities Mission (SCM) projects undertaken at IIT Bombay. The project is funded by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, and the projects being evaluated are in the area of urban mobility.
• Faculty Research Grant (FRG) project titled “Development of a decision support tool for bus route network design and scheduling” funded by NIT Calicut. Role: PI.

Completed project:

• PI of the sponsored project titled “Development of a Decision Support System for Multimodal freight Transportation Planning with a special application for FCI Kerala Region.”
  Funding agency: Kerala State Council for Science, Technology and Environment (KSCSTE).

Other projects that I was associated with:

• Rail freight path generation and analysis on Golden Quadrilateral + Diagonals (GQD) routes of Indian Railways - project sponsored by Indian Railways.
• Railway crew planning for freight and passenger train services - case of Central Railway, Indian Railways.
• Multimodal rail and truck transportation planning with terminal related constraints - case of Food Corporation of India.
• Development of a modelling framework for freight consolidation in transportation planning.
• A study on the impact of the speed differential between passenger and freight trains on sectional freight capacity - case of Bilaspur Rourkela section - project sponsored by Indian Railways.