Best Paper Award

2012 First Place: John Bartholdi, Georgia Institute of Technology ; Donald Eisenstein, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Winning material: A Self Coordinating Bus Route to Resist Bus Bunching

Purpose of the Award

The TSL Best Paper Award will be given every year to an outstanding paper in the field of transportation science and logistics. The paper must have been published in a refereed journal and must present innovative approaches for solving complex problems in transportation and/or logistics, with an emphasis on operations research and quantitative methods.

Past Awardees

2012 First Place John Bartholdi, Georgia Institute of Technology Donald Eisenstein, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Honorable Mention Ulrich Derigs Stefan Friederichs
2011 First Place Roberto Baldacci Aristide Mingozzi
2010 First Place Abraham George, Princeton University Hugo Simao, Princeton University John Nienow, Schneider National Jeff Day, Schneider National Ted Gifford, Schneider National Warren Powell, Princeton University
2008 First Place Olaf Jahn, Infopark AG Rolf H. Mohring, Technische Universitat Berlin, Andreas S. Schulz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Nicolas E. Stier-Moses, Columbia University Andrea S. Schulz, MIT
Honorable Mention Gilbert Laporte, École des Hautes Études Commerciales Montréal Arne Lokketangen Lars M. Hvattum
2007 First Place Jiamin Zhao, Oracle Corporation Maged Dessouky, University of Southern California Satish Bukkapatnam, Oklahoma State University
Honorable Mention Caspar G. Chorus, Delft University of Technology Theo A. Arentze, Eindhoven University of Technology Eric J.E. Molin, Delft University of Technology Harry J.P. Timmermans, Eindhoven University of Technology Bert Van Wee, Delft University of Technology
Georgia Perkais, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Guillaume Roels, UCLA Anderson School of Management
2006 Awardee Michel Bierlaie, École Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne Frank Crittin, IDIAP Research Institute
2005 Awardee Anton J. Kleywegt Vijay S. Nori Martin W.P. Savelsbergh, Georgia Institute of Technology
2004 Awardee Gilbert Laporte, École des Hautes Études Commerciales Montréal Francois V. Louveaux, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Luc Van Hamme, OM Partners
2003 Awardee A. Armacost, U.S. Air Force Academy C. Barnhart, MIT K.A. Ware, UPS Airlines
2002 Awardee Jose Rafael Correa, MIT Roberto Cominetti, Universidad de Chile


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Committee

2011 Committee Chair
Janny Leung
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
William M. W. Mong Engineering Building
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong
voice: (852) 2609-8238
e-mail: janny@se.cuhk.edu.hk

2011 Committee Members
Luce Brotcorne
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique
INRIA Lille Nord Europe
Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne
40, Avenue Halley, Bât A, Park Plaza
F 59650 Villeneuve d'Ascq
voice: 33 (0)3 59 57 78 82
e-mail: Luce.Brotcorne@inria.fr

Ann Campbell
Management Sciences
University of Iowa
W244 John Pappajohn Bus Bldg
Iowa City, IA 52242-1994
voice: +1 319-335-0918
e-mail: ann-campbell@uiowa.edu

Alan Erera
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332-0205
voice: +1 (404) 385-0358
e-mail: alan.erera

Michael Bell
Centre for Transport Studies
Imperial College
Room 608, Skempton Bldg.
London SW7 2AZ
voice: +44(0)20 7594-6091
e-mail: m.g.h.bell@imperial.ac.uk

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