1. ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 2, 2015

2. 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

3. 2015 Special Interest Group Leadership
Air
ITS
Senay Solak, Chair
Steve Boyles, Chair
Vikrant Vaze, Vice Chair
Yingyan Lou, Vice Chair
Facility Logistics
Urban Transport
Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Chair
Song Gao, Chair
Z. Max Shen, Vice Chair
Freight
Tom Van Woensel, Chair
Kevin Furman, Vice Chair

4. 2015 International Liaisons
For Europe Harilaos Psaraftis
For the Americas Andres Medaglia
For Asia, Australia, and New Zealand Mark Hickman

5. TSL Keynote Michel Gendreau Tuesday, November 3 11:00am – 12:30pm
Room 201B, Convention Center
Michel Gendreau
“Stochastic Vehicle Routing: An Overview and Some Research Directions”

6. TSL Prize Session Presentations from
Tuesday, November 3
1:30pm – 3:00pm
Room 201B, Convention Center
Presentations from
TSL Best Dissertation Prize Winner
TSL Best Paper Award Winner

7. Dissertation Prize Chair: Elisabetta Cherchi
Committee: Larry Snyder, Halit Uster, Emma Frejinger, and Francesco Corman

8. The winner is . . . Alexander Jacquillat
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Integrated Allocation and Utilization of Airport Capacity to Mitigate Air Traffic Congestion
Advised by: Amadeo Odoni

9. Best Paper Prize Chair: Markos Papageorgiou
Committee: Marielle Christiansen, Andres Medaglia, Grazia Speranza, and
Konstaninos Zografos

10. The winners are . . . Belgacem Bouzaiene-Ayari
Princeton University
Clark Cheng, Sourav Das, Ricardo Fiorillo
Norfolk Southern
Warren B. Powell
From Single Commodity to Multiattribute Models for Locomotive Optimization: A Comparison of Optimal Integer Programming and Approximate Dynamic Programming
Transportation Science, to appear

11. Robert Herman Lifetime Achievement Award
Chair: Michel Bierlaire
Committee: Samer Madanat, Cindy Barnhart, Bernard Gendron, and Martine Labbe

12. École Polytechnique de Montréal
The winner is . . .
Michel Gendreau
École Polytechnique de Montréal

13. Maciek Nowak Loyola University Chicago
Membership report
Maciek Nowak
Loyola University Chicago

14. INFORMS Membership hits all time high this year!
3,403 new members in 2015 compared to 3,325 in 2014

15. TSL numbers show a decline

16. 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

17. Secretary/Treasurer report
Ann Campbell
University of Iowa

18. Balance is growing
Projection of approximately $42,000 at end of This puts us in a more stable position.

19. Profits
We will increase our balance by approximately $11,900 two years in a row!
The dues have been going up slightly the last few years
The interest income has been zero the last two years
The last two years we share part of our dues revenue with AAS, and they with us. Our dues have increased about $1500 each of the last two years, and the contra dual membership has been about $1300, so that part is essentially in balance.
The TSL workshop netted us about $2500, which Mike will talk more about

20. Profits
Increased profits due to change in dues (e.g. student dues) and workshops
2013 Asilomar TSL workshop profit: $
2014 Chicago TSL workshop profit: $
2015 Berlin TSL workshop profit: $
Expenses are fairly stable

21. Cluster Chair Report Irina Dolinskaya, Northwestern University - chair
Stephen Boyles, University of Texas at Austin – vice chair

22. TSL Session Summary 61 Sessions, 190 talks Special thanks to
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

23. Transportation Science
Journal Update

24. Statistics Submissions (10/1/2014 – 9/30/2015): 315
TSL workshop 2014:
TSL workshop 2015: 5
Acceptance rate (10/1/2014 – 9/30/2015): %
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

25. 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

26. Articles-in-Advance vs. Issues-in-Advance
Transportation Science will be moving to Issues-in- Advance

27. Impact Factor 2014 (2015) www.impact-factor.org
Operations Research:
Management Science:
European Journal of Operations Research:
Computers and Operations Research:
Transportation Research Part B:
Transportation Research Part E:
Transportation Science:

28. Transportation Science 50th Anniversary
What’s to come in 2016?
Transportation Science 50th Anniversary

29. 2015 TSL Workshop Summary

30. 2015 TSL Workshop Recent Advances in Urban Transportation through Optimization and Analytics
Catherine Cleophas (RWTH Aachen)
Jan Fabian Ehmke (FU Berlin)
Ann Melissa Campbell (U Iowa)
July 6th – July 8th, 2015
Berlin, Germany

31. 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 was challenging, 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

34. Impressions from the Workshop

35. Conference Announcements

36. 2016 TSL Workshop June 19 – 22 (starts Sunday after TRISTAN)
Theme: Analytics and Automation in Logistics
Submission Deadline: December 31
Submission 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 Toriello
Advisory Members: Martin Savelsbergh, Chip White

37. 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

38. Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis
TRISTAN IX
ARUBA, June, 2016
Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis
Submission deadline: November 15, 2015