ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

November 2, 2015

2015 TSL Officers

President – Barry Thomas, Univ. of Iowa

Vice President/President Elect – Maciek Nowak, Loyola University Chicago

Past President – Grazia Speranza – Univ. of Brescia

Secretary Treasurer – Ann Campbell, Univ. of Iowa

Communications Chair – Mike Hewitt, Loyola University Chicago

2015 Special Interest Group Leadership

Air Senay Solak, Chair Vikrant Vaze, Vice

Chair Facility Logistics

Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Chair

Z. Max Shen, Vice Chair

Freight

Tom Van Woensel, Chair

Kevin Furman, Vice Chair

ITS Steve Boyles, Chair Yingyan Lou, Vice

Chair Urban Transport

Song Gao, Chair

2015 International Liaisons

For EuropeHarilaos Psaraftis

For the AmericasAndres Medaglia

For Asia, Australia, and New ZealandMark Hickman

TSL Keynote

Tuesday, November 311:00am – 12:30pm

Room 201B, Convention Center

Michel Gendreau“Stochastic Vehicle Routing: An Overview and Some Research

Directions”

TSL Prize Session

Tuesday, November 31:30pm – 3:00pm

Room 201B, Convention Center

Presentations fromTSL Best Dissertation Prize Winner

TSL Best Paper Award Winner

DISSERTATION PRIZE

Chair: Elisabetta Cherchi

Committee: Larry Snyder, Halit Uster, Emma Frejinger, and Francesco Corman

The winner is . . .

Alexander JacquillatMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Integrated Allocation and Utilization of Airport Capacity to Mitigate Air Traffic

Congestion

Advised by: Amadeo Odoni

BEST PAPER PRIZE

Chair: Markos Papageorgiou

Committee: Marielle Christiansen, Andres Medaglia, Grazia Speranza, and

Konstaninos Zografos

The winners are . . .

Belgacem Bouzaiene-AyariPrinceton University

Clark Cheng, Sourav Das, Ricardo FiorilloNorfolk Southern

Warren B. PowellPrinceton University

From Single Commodity to Multiattribute Models for Locomotive Optimization: A Comparison of Optimal

Integer Programming and Approximate Dynamic Programming

Transportation Science, to appear

ROBERT HERMAN LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Chair: Michel Bierlaire

Committee: Samer Madanat, Cindy Barnhart, Bernard Gendron, and Martine Labbe

The winner is . . .

Michel GendreauÉcole Polytechnique de Montréal

MEMBERSHIP REPORT

Maciek Nowak

Loyola University Chicago

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 20168500

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10564 1070510687

11499

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INFORMS Membershiphits all time high this year!

3,403 new members in 2015 compared to 3,325 in 2014

TSL numbers show a decline

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806751

896975

10941051

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888As of 10/20/15

But there’s a reason…

Year Number of Regular Members

Number of Student Members

2013 504 643

2014 593 404

2015 554 308

Number of students has declined considerably since we started charging a nominal student fee

Minimal impact from change in agreement with AAS

SECRETARY/TREASURER REPORT

Ann Campbell

University of Iowa

Balance is growing

Projection of approximately $42,000 at end of 2015. This puts us in a more stable position.

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 projected$0

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Ending Balance

Profits

We will increase our balance by approximately $11,900 two years in a row!

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 projected$0

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$10,000

$12,000

$14,000

Net gain/loss

Profits

Increased profits due to change in dues (e.g. student dues) and workshops 2013 Asilomar TSL workshop profit:

$3207.88 2014 Chicago TSL workshop profit:

$2124.00 2015 Berlin TSL workshop profit:

$4167.80

Expenses are fairly stable

CLUSTER CHAIR REPORT

Irina Dolinskaya, Northwestern University - chair

Stephen Boyles, University of Texas at Austin – vice chair

TSL Session Summary

61 Sessions, 190 talks ITS – 7 sessions Urban – 8 sessions Facility – 5 sessions Freight – 17 sessions General – 24 sessions

Special thanks to SIG Chairs & Vice Chairs Session chairs INFORMS Staff (Ellen Tralongo and Paulette

Bronis) Very helpful at all stages of planning

TRANSPORTATION SCIENCE

Journal Update

Statistics

Submissions (10/1/2014 – 9/30/2015): 315 TSL workshop 2014: 38 TSL workshop 2015: 5

Acceptance rate (10/1/2014 – 9/30/2015): 18.9%

Number of accepted papers not yet scheduled for publication: 109 Transportation Science has been getting and will be

getting additional pages to accommodate the increase in the number of submissions and to remove the backlog

Special Issues & Sections

Maritime Transportation and Port Logistics (November 2015)

Freight Transportation and Logistics Facility Logistics Uncertainty in Logistics and Transportation

Systems (TSL Workshop 2014) Advances in Urban Transportation (TSL Workshop

2015)

Commitment to publish a special issue relates to TSL workshop topic each year

Articles-in-Advance vs. Issues-in-Advance

Transportation Science will be moving to Issues-in-Advance

Impact Factor 2014 (2015)www.impact-factor.org

Operations Research: 1.743 Management Science: 2.482 European Journal of Operations Research:

2.358 Computers and Operations Research: 1.861

Transportation Research Part B: 2.952 Transportation Research Part E: 2.676

Transportation Science: 3.043

What’s to come in 2016?

Transportation Science

50th Anniversary

2015 TSL WORKSHOP SUMMARY

Catherine Cleophas (RWTH Aachen)Jan Fabian Ehmke (FU Berlin)

Ann Melissa Campbell (U Iowa)

2015 TSL Workshop

Recent Advances in Urban Transportation through

Optimization and Analytics

July 6th – July 8th, 2015Berlin, Germany

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Facts and Figures

75 Participants from all over the world(Australia – Austria – Canada – China – Germany – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Korea – Netherlands – Poland – Spain – Turkey – United Kingdom – USA)

40 Talks

2 Keynotes (Arne Strauß, Mike Ball)

Although international budget planning waschallenging, we turned a profit! Partially due to support of Initplan and

the School of Business and Economics, FUB

32

Industry Panel

Challenges of Big Data in Urban Transportation Optimization Bringing together researchers and experts from industry Moderated by Bruce Golden

33

Survey

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Impressions from the Workshop

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

2016 TSL WORKSHOPJune 19 – 22 (starts Sunday after TRISTAN)

Theme: Analytics and Automation in Logistics

Submission Deadline: December 31Submission via EasyChair

Keynote Speaker: Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics, Georgia Tech CoC

Visit TSL website for details

Organizing Committee: Alan Erera, Sebastian Pokutta, Alejandro TorielloAdvisory Members: Martin Savelsbergh, Chip White

1st TSL Conference

Our first society-wide conference focusing on the scientific issues relevant to TSL members

Location: Chicago, IL – Loyola University Summer 2017, Dates TBD Details and registration information to

follow soon

Organizing committee – Pitu Mirchandani, Chair; Mike Ball; Maciek Nowak; Warren Powell; Barry Thomas

TRISTAN IX ARUBA, 13-17 JUNE, 2016

Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 15, 2015

www.tristan-symposium.org