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… both people from academia and industry, by showcasing how Operations Research can be used in several applications. The NGB also organizes the Young OR Day, a one-day event intended for its youngest, and potential new, members. This day includes a visit to a company that applies Operations Research on a daily basis. The NGB also gives financial support to seminars and events in the Netherlands to further promote the use of OR. In particular, we support the Joint ORBEL-NGB Conference on … Sörensen, K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 15:40 – 17:00 Parallel session TC3 – Scheduling Session chair: L. Petit-Jean Genat Room: H0.04 Investigating the Monte-Carlo Tree Search Approach for the Job Shop Scheduling Problem Boveroux, L., Ernst, D., and Louveaux, Q. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123 Fixed Order Scheduling with Deadlines Berger, A., Rouhani, A., and Schröder, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . … work specifically focuses on peer-to-peer crowdshipping [2] since it is less studied than crowdship- ping with in-store customers, yet subject to more uncertainty. It employs regular commuters as crowdshippers for the delivery of parcels with sellers, buyers and crowdshippers geographically dispersed. Peer-to-peer crowdshipping is suitable for delivery in C2C platforms (e.g. Vinted). The French crowdshipping company Cocolis applies this model. The successful implementation of crowdshipping heavily …

… is the housing market. On the one hand, pandemics can result in a direct decline in housing demand due to excess mortality and economic hardship. On the other hand, the uncertainty brought by the epidemic might refrain households and investors from buying and selling property. It is challenging to assess the impact of such an epidemic on the housing market. While epidemics typically arrive suddenly and are therefore unrelated to the state of the economy, they are also infrequent, such that data … though that the plague resulted in widespread death and despair, and also affected the economy. Noordegraaf and Valk (1996) cite dozens such examples, and we will name a few here. For example, the Amsterdam plague law of 1558 prohibited people from visiting markets, inns, and churches during epidemics, as well as any other place where many people gathered. In some cases, the government even announced movement restrictions around outbreaks. After the 1617 epidemic, owners of inns complained that … . As we do not have detailed property information, we include street fixed effects (1521 streets). We have information on transaction type (four different types) and some crude descriptions of the property, like the presence of a building, a garden, a shop, etcetera. In total, we have 25 property related dummy variables. We use identical variables for the plague as in the repeat sales model. Table 2 presents estimation results from the repeat sales and hedonic price model. Our sample covers seven …