Submission Deadline: June 1, 2025
The TSL Best Paper Award is given once a year to an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and must present innovative approaches for solving complex problems in transportation and/or logistics, with an emphasis on operations research and quantitative methods.
Eligibility Criteria
A paper is eligible if it is written in English and if it has been published between June 1, 2022 and May 31, 2025. In the case of papers that are only available in pre-print form online at the time of consideration, the online publication date must be easily verifiable.
All topics related to the field of transportation science and logistics will be considered, including, but not limited to, airline operations, facility logistics, freight, intelligent transportation systems, transit, urban transportation planning methods, and vehicle routing.
Any author may submit only one of his/her eligible papers. In addition, no individual may be a co-author on more than two papers submitted to the competition.
2025 TSL Best Paper Award Committee
Bilge Atasoy, Delft University of Technology
Dirk Briskorn, University of Wuppertal
Emma Frejinger, Université de Montréal
Kai Pan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Michal Tzur, Tel Aviv University (Chair)
Submission Instructions
To submit a paper for the 2025 competition, one of the authors must send the paper along with a short letter (maximum one page) to the committee chair at tzurm@tauex.tau.ac.il before June 1, 2025. Use the subject line: TSL Best Paper Award Submission – [submitting author last name]. In the letter, the submitting author must state that the paper satisfies the eligibility requirements for the competition, indicating specifically the journal and date of publication (or online publication in the case of a pre-print). The letter should also indicate which TSL Special Interest Group (SIG) best fits the paper’s topic (see list of SIGs at:
https://connect.informs.org/tsl/tslresources/sigs).
The winning paper will be announced at the TSL business meeting to be held during the 2025 annual INFORMS meeting. The authors of the winning paper will share a prize of $800, and each will receive a certificate. The Best Paper Award committee will also select and recommend submissions for the Special Interest Group (SIG) outstanding paper awards.