TRISTAN VIII – EIGHTH TRIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM ON TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS

June 9 – 14, 2013

San Pedro de Atacama, Chile

The Complex Engineering Systems Institute, ISCI, would like to invite you to submit an abstract to the eighth version of the TRISTAN Triennial Symposium.

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Anna Nagurney Fights Manhattan Traffic

TSL member Anna Nagurney reveals how humankind has wrestled with traffic since the Roman Empire. The solution might lie in an unlikely direction: removing options for drivers, rather than adding new roads. Transportation planners in Manhattan are putting that theory to the test by removing traffic from one of the city’s busiest stretches – Broadway at Times Square.

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EURO JOURNAL ON TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS
SPECIAL ISSUE: SHARED MOBILITY SYSTEMS
GUEST EDITORS: MICHAL TZUR AND TAL RAVIV

Shared Mobility Systems

Wired magazine article features TSL member Warren Powell

A Wired magazine feature on the revolution in artificial intelligence included a piece on Warren Powell and his team of "algorithm geeks from Princeton University." Powell's team developed the Princeton Locomotive and Shop Management System, or PLASMA, for Norfolk Southern, using approximate dynamic programming to mimic the company's dispatch center. Well done, Warren!

Please send any pertinent news items that you would like to see featured here to Maciek Nowak (mnowak4@luc.edu).

New York Times Op-Ed Piece from TSL Member
TSL Member Ozlem Ergun and coauthor Julie Swann, associate professors of Industrial and Systems Engineering and co-directors of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Tech, along with coauthor Reginald DesRoches, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Georgia Tech, recently contributed an editorial in the New York Times about the astonishing amount of debris still left in Haiti and the need for a plan for functional accessible infrastructure. Well worth a read!

Call for Presentations - 2010 INFORMS Annual Meeting
It is time to start putting together sessions and abstracts for the upcoming INFORMS Annual Meeting in Austin, November 7-10, 2010.
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Interdisciplinary Integration Seminar on Transportation
Summer 2010, Organizer: Bernard Gendron
The CIRRELT (Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation), jointly with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Université de Montréal, offers a course of three (3) credits to which any master or doctoral student can register to upon approval from their institution.
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Stochastic Programming Tutorials
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
14-15 August 2010 (followed by the 12th International Conference on Stochastic Programming 16-20 August)
http://icsp12.dal.ca/

1st Transatlantic NECTAR Conference (02/14/2009)

Call for Presentations - 2009 INFORMS Annual Meeting (02/14/2009)

2010 INFORMS Southern Regional Conference (04/05/2010)

The Southern Regional Conference is coming up, April 5-7 in Huntsville, Alabama! The conference is co-hosted by the INFORMS Deep South Chapter and the INFORMS Military Applications Society. The abstract deadline is February 15. Burcu Keskin (bkeskin@cba.ua.edu) is Chair of the TSL cluster.