Blog Viewer

TSL Business Meeting Summary

  

On Monday 18, 2021, more than 100 participants from all around the world met for the TSL business meeting, which took place virtually and outside the Informs Annual Meeting this year. Mike Hewitt, the current President of the TSL Society, moderated the meeting.


Following the introduction, we congratulated the newly elected officers for 2022. Specifically, Alejandro Toriello from Georgia Tech was elected as TSL VP/President Elect. Sara Reed from University of Kansas was elected as TSL Cluster vice-chair. As International Liaisons, Shadi Sharif Azadeh from TU Delft will serve for Europe, Hai Wang from Singapore Management University will serve for Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, and Matthias Klapp from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile will continue to serve for the Americas. As SIG Vice-Chairs, Burak Eksioglu from University of Arkansas was elected for Freight, Baris Yildiz from Koc University was elected for Facility Logistics and Yanshuo Sun from Florida State University was elected for ITS. After a suspense-packed virtual coin toss, Chiwei Yan from Dartmouth University was elected as the Urban Transportation SIG Vice-Chair.


Ann Campbell and Jan Fabian Ehmke

 


Next, Jan Fabian Ehmke, incoming president and chair of the grant committee, announced the winners of the TSL Cross-Regional Grants. As Doctoral Grant Awardee, we congratulate Wu Di from Tongji University, Shanghai, for being sponsored to visit Marlin Ulmer at University of Magdeburg, Germany, to work on combining dynamic pricing for same-day and slotting for next-day delivery. Furthermore, we congratulate Nuno Antunes Ribeiro from Singapore University of Technology and Design on receiving a collaborative grant to work with Sebastian Birolini from University of Bergamo, Italy, on the airport demand management under uncertainty. We also congratulate Maciek Nowak from Loyola University Chicago on receiving a collaborative grant to work with Przemyslaw Szufel from SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland, to research large-scale multi-depot routing problems with task stacking and stochastic travel times.




The best dissertation prize was awarded by a committee chaired by John Gunnar Carlsson. The committee selected the winner from 13 nominations after several rounds of evaluation and discussions. As honorable mention, they highlighted the work of Sandeep Badrinath from MIT on modeling and controlling queuing networks with applications to airport surface operations, as advised by Hamsa Balakrishnan. The dissertation prize winner was Zhengtian Xu from University of Michigan, as advised by Yafeng Yin, for the topic “On Empty Miles of Ride-Sourcing Services: Theory, Observation, and Countermeasures”. Zhengtian will present the paper at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in a special hybrid session on Monday, October 25 at 11 am PDT.




For the TSL Best Paper Award, the jury had to select from a record number of 37 submissions published across 13 journals. As honorable mention, we congratulated Marlin Ulmer for his paper “Dynamic Pricing and Routing for Same-Day Delivery”, published in Transportation Science in 2020. The TSL Best Paper Award winners are Kai Wang and Alexandre Jacquillat with their paper “A Stochastic Integer Programming Approach to Air Traffic Scheduling and Operations”, published in Operations Research in 2020. As the SIG Facilities Outstanding Paper, we honored “Workforce Scheduling with Order-Picking Assignments in Distribution Facilities”, published by Rijal, Bijvank, Goel, and de Koster in Transportation Science in 2021. As the SIG Freight Outstanding Paper, we honored “Dynamic Discretization Discovery for Solving the Time-Dependent Traveling Salesman Problem with Time Windows” published by Vu, Hewitt, Boland, and Savelsbergh in Transportation Science in 2020. As the SIG ITS Outstanding Paper, we honored “Intelligent driving intelligence test for autonomous vehicles with naturalistic and adversarial environment” published by Feng, Yan, Sun, Feng, and Liu in Nature Communications in 2021. As the SIG Urban Transportation Outstanding Paper, we honored “Crowdsourcing Last-Mile Deliveries” by Fatehi and Wagner, published in MSOM in 2021.




The Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement award, which is intended for a lifetime of research and particular contributions to the field of transportation science and logistics through teaching, service and nurturing of young professionals, was awarded to Warren Powell, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Warren will give a talk on Approximate Dynamic Programming at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in the Hybrid TSL Award Session on October 25, 2021, at 7:45 am PDT.


Warren Powell receives the Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award

 


In a moving talk, Anna Nagurney introduced the newly minted Stella Dafermos Achievement Award in Transportation Science. This award will honor mid-career individuals who have already made fundamental scientific contributions to transportation science and logistics. Other considerations when evaluating an individual are their impact on practice, their service to TSL, and their involvement in diversity and inclusion-related activities.  




As editor-in-chief, Karen Smilowitz subsequently gave a short overview of recent developments at the journal Transportation Science. She also used this opportunity to congratulate the winners of the Meritorious Service Awards and to present the new Transportation Science Journal Paper of the Year award. The first winner of this prize was Marlin Ulmer for his paper “Dynamic Pricing and Routing for Same-Day Delivery”. Marlin will present his paper at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in a special hybrid session on Monday, October 25 at 11 am PDT.



Marlin Ulmer receives the Transportation Science Journal Paper of the Year award





Jordan Srour presented the current work of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiative, specifically, the results from a survey among the TSL Community in Spring 2021. She particularly highlighted the need for involving more non-native English speakers in networking events to encourage committee membership.




As upcoming events, the business meeting highlighted the 9th INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop, which will be hosted as a virtual event by the Centre for Transportation and Logistics at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad from December 13 to 15, 2021. The topic of the workshop will be “E-Commerce in an Emerging World”. Find more information here. Furthermore, in Summer 2022, specifically June 8-10, the TSL Workshop will be organized at the NHH Norwegian School of Economics on the topic “Transportation and logistics prospects in light of digitization and autonomous technologies”. The call for papers will be online soon.


The TSL society also plans to continue the TSL webinar series in 2022. There are eight webinars planned to be organized by the five SIG chairs and the three international liaisons.



In conclusion to the TSL business meeting, we enjoyed a lively networking event on Wonder.



The TSL Society networking on Wonder


 

0 comments
18 views

Permalink

Tag