1. Institute of Production and Logistics – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna 28.11.20121 Working group Transportation Logistics (Institute of Production and Logistics) Patrick Hirsch Institute of Production and Logistics University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

2. Institute of Production and Logistics – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna  founded in 1872  about 11,000 students and 1,500 researchers  based on the “three columns”: natural, technical, and socio-economic sciences  Studies:  Environment and resources management  Agriculture  Forestry  Wood and Fibre technology  Food science and Biotechnology ... 28.11.20122

3. Institute of Production and Logistics – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Institute of Production and Logistics  founded in 2003  17 researchers  Head: Manfred Gronalt (Vice Head: Patrick Hirsch)  Three working groups  Peter Rauch: Logistics in Forestry - biomass supply chains, bioenergy, risk in forestry, etc.  Manfred Gronalt: Production logistics in the wood processing industry, risk analysis of supply chains, optimization of container terminals and goods traffic networks, etc.  Patrick Hirsch: Transportation logistics and disaster management 28.11.20123

4. Institute of Production and Logistics – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Transportation logistics and disaster management - Intro  since 2008  4 PhD students, one Senior Lecturer & me  Backgrounds: Andrea Trautsamwieser (Mathematician), Magdalena Schweiger (Environmental Management and Agricultural Economics), Klaus-Dieter Rest (Management Science), Marco Oberscheider (Environmental Management & Informatics), and Christian Fikar (Business Administration) 28.11.20124

5. Institute of Production and Logistics – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Transportation logistics and disaster management – Research 1  Transportation logistics in health care  Home health care scheduling with a daily horizon (rich VRP)  Transport by car  In disaster situations (e.g. fluvial floods)  Use of multimodal transport  Alternative modes of transport and their combination  Methods: metaheuristics (VNS, Tabu Search), exact approaches (Branch & Price)  Home health care scheduling with a weekly horizon (rich VRP)  Transport by car  Methods: metaheuristics (VNS), exact approaches (Branch & Price)  Patient transportation (DARP with additional constraints)  Methods: matheuristics (combination of exact approaches with Tabu Search) 28.11.20125

6. Institute of Production and Logistics – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Transportation logistics and disaster management – Research 2  Transportation logistics in forestry  Round timber transport with log-trucks (rich VRP also denoted sometimes as TTVRP)  Minimization of driving times or CO 2 e emissions  Methods: matheuristics and metaheuristics (Tabu Search)  Round timber transport with containers (state-dependent VRP)  Method: Metaheuristics (Tabu Search) 28.11.20126

7. Institute of Production and Logistics – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Transportation logistics and disaster management – Recent Publications  Zazgornik, J., Gronalt, M., Hirsch, P.: The Combined Vehicle Routing and Foldable Container Scheduling Problem: A Model Formulation and Tabu Search Based Solution Approaches. INFOR (Accepted)  Derigs, U., Pullmann, M., Vogel, U., Oberscheider, M., Gronalt, M., Hirsch, P. (2012): Multilevel neighborhood search for solving full truckload routing problems arising in timber transportation. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 39: 281-288.  Hirsch, P., Palfi, A., Gronalt, M. (2012): Solving a time constrained two-crane routing problem for material handling with an ant colony optimisation approach: an application in the roof-tile industry. International Journal of Production Research, 50(20): 6005-6021.  Rest, K.-D., Trautsamwieser, A., Hirsch, P. (2012): Trends and risks in home health care. Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2(1): 34-53.  Zazgornik, J., Gronalt, M., Hirsch, P. (2012): A comprehensive approach to planning the deployment of transportation assets in distributing forest products. International Journal of Revenue Management, 6(1/2): 45-61.  Trautsamwieser, A., Hirsch, P. (2011): Optimization of daily scheduling for home health care services. Journal of Applied Operational Research, 3(3): 124-136.  Trautsamwieser, A., Gronalt, M., Hirsch, P. (2011): Securing home health care in times of natural disasters. OR Spectrum, 33(3): 787-813.  Hirsch, P. (2010): Minimizing empty truck loads in round timber transport with tabu search strategies. International Journal of Information Systems and Supply Chain Management, 4(2): 15-41.  Rauch, P., Gronalt, M., Hirsch, P. (2010): Cooperative forest fuel procurement strategy and its saving effects on overall transportation costs. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 25(3): 251-261. 28.11.20127

8. Institute of Production and Logistics – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna Transportation logistics and disaster management – Transfer to practice 28.11.20128 Many unsolved problems in organizations that cannot be handled with standard-software → Spin-Off of our institute to bring research into practice Still a lot of research work and real-life problems in home health care, patient transportation, wood transport... – interest to work on “odd” problems with real-life applications