CALL FOR PAPERS

Hang Seng Management College is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 6th INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop, E-Commerce and Urban Logistics. The Workshop will be held on January 8-10, 2018, hosted by the School of Decision Sciences at Hang Seng Management College in Hong Kong.

 

THEME OF THE WORKSHOP: E-Commerce and Urban Logistics

With the advent of Internet, social media and mobile phones, e-Commerce has been transformed, especially in China.  China has the most Internet shoppers in the world, leading the distant second (USA) by a wide margin. It has been identified that e-Commerce for individual shoppers must be accompanied by efficient logistics.  Reportedly, in 2015, the Alibaba Group's websites accounted for over 60% of the parcels delivered in China.  Every day, more than 30 million parcels are delivered through the Alibaba Group’s websites. At the same time, the transportation operations have a significant impact on the environment, due to the negative externalities generated, such as the increase of traffic and congestion, the energy consumption, visual, noise and air pollution. These problems tend to make urban logistics very expensive, inefficient and polluting. In this scenario, several stakeholders, such as companies operating in the Courier, Express and Parcel markets, as well as local administrations, have been ready to consider City Logistics projects to implement new business models or operations strategies that result in high efficiency, low cost, and low environmental impact.

Possible topics are (but not limited to):

• business model developments in the world of e-Commerce, relevant for urban logistics
• new business models that drive urban logistics, such as Online-to-offline (O2O), meal delivery, on-demand delivery, crowd sourcing
• city logistics
• green urban logistics 
• last mile problem
• revenue management
• e-Commerce and supply chain management
• urban transportation
• vehicle routing and scheduling

 
INSTRUCTIONS FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Please follow the instruction for submitting your abstract on our website http://tslworkshop2018.hsmc.edu.hk/main.php. Abstracts should be as complete as possible and not exceed two pages. All abstracts must be received electronically on or before July 7, 2017.

Scientific quality is the main criterion when reviewing the abstracts.  In addition, sessions involving practitioners will be given special consideration. Accepted abstracts will be printed in the Workshop Program. At least one of the authors must certify that he/she intends to register for and attend the workshop to present the paper if it is accepted. We plan to have a special issue of Transportation Science associated with the workshop.

 

DATES OF INTEREST:

• Abstract submission deadline: July 7^th, 2017
• Notification of acceptance: August 25^th, 2017
• Deadline for early registration: November 10^th, 2017
• Workshop: January 8^th – 10^th, 2018

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

 

Chair and Co-chairs

Professor Stein W. Wallace Conference Chair NHH Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway Sichuan University, Chengdu, China   Professor Teodor Gabriel Crainic Conference Scientific Co-chair UQAM and CIRRELT, Montreal, Canada   Professor Lei Zhao Programme Co-chair Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Professor Barrett Thomas Marketing Co-Chair University of Iowa, U.S.A. Professor Lawrence Leung Local Organisation Co-chair School of Decision Sciences, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong   Professor Janny Leung Local Organisation Co-chair Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

 

 

 

 

Organising Committee

Chair: Dr Collin Wong Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong Dr Jeff Yeung Chinese University of Hong Kong   Member: Dr Stephen Ng Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong Dr Daniel Mo Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong Dr Yue Wang Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong Dr Yong-Hong Kuo Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

  

 

Scientific Committee
Name	Affiliation
Niels Agatz	Erasmus University Rotterdam
Ruibin Bai	University of Nottingham Ningbo
Luce Brotcorne	INRIA
Xi Chen	Beijing Foreign Studies University
Jan Ehmke	Freie Universitat Berlin
Dominique Feillet	École des Mines, Saint-Etienne
Michel Gendreau	Polytechnique Montreal and CIRRELT
Bernard Gendron	U. de Montreal and CIRRELT
Zhaoxia Guo	University of Sichuan, Chengdu
Longfei He	Tianjin University
Zhenggang He	Southwest Jiaotong University
Vera Hemmelmayr	Vienna U. of Economics and Business
Mike Hewitt	Loyola University Chicago
Xiangpei Hu	Dalian University of Technology
Haijun Huang	Beihang University
Hoong Chuin Lau	Singapore Management University
Fabien Lehuede	École des Mines, Nantes
Xiangyong Li	Tongji University
Li Luo	Sichuan University, Chengdu
Cathy Macharis	Free Univiversity Bruxelles
Dirk Mattfeld	Technische Universität Braunschweig
Benoit Montreuil	Georgia Institute of Technology
Guido Perboli	Politecnico di Torino
Olivier Péton	École des Mines, Nantes
Nicoletta Ricciardi	La Sapienza U. di Roma
Ying Rong	Shanghai Jiaotong University
Debjit Roy	Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
Frédéric Semet	École Centralle Lille
Antonio Sforza	U. degli Studi di Napoli
Max Shen	University of California, Berkeley/Tsinghua University
Grazia Speranza	U. degli Studi di Brescia
Marlin Ulmer	Technische Universität Braunschweig
Daniele Vigo	U. degli Studi di Bologna
Fan Wang	Sun Yat-Sen University
Tom van Woensel	Technical University of Eindhoven
Hai Yang	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Yafeng Yin	University of Michigan
Yugang Yu	University of Science and Technology of China
Shu Zhang	Chongqing University
Paola Zuddas	U. degli Studi di Cagliari

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Barrett Thomas
Associate Professor
University of Iowa
Iowa City IA
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