Best Paper Award

2024 Winner(s)

Winning material: Tactical Design of Same-Day Delivery Systems

Purpose of the Award

The TSL Best Paper Award is given once a 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.

Application Process

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Past Awardees

2024
Winner(s)
Alan Erera , Georgia Institute of Technology School of Industrial & Systems Eng
Alejandro Toriello
Alexander M. Stroh, Georgia Institute of Technology
Runner-Up
Qingchen Wang, Ophelos Limited
Scott Webster, Arizona State University
Stanley Lim, Michigan State University
2023
Winner(s)
Ningwei Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology
Wei Qi, Tsinghua University
Yuli Zhang, Beijing Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Ann Melissa Campbell, University of Iowa
Barrett W. Thomas, University of Iowa
Sara Reed
2022
Winner(s)
Ilya O. Ryzhov, University of Maryland
Nikola Marković, University of Utah
Paul Schonfeld, University of Maryland
Ye Chen, Virginia Commonwealth University
Honorable Mention
Jorge E. Mendoza, HEC Montreal
Justin Goodson, University of Iowa
Nicholas D. Kullman, Universite de Tours
2021
Winner(s)
Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kai Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Marlin Ulmer, Technische Universitat Braunschweig
2020
Winner(s)
Demetrio Laganá, Department of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria
Roberto Roberti, Department of Supply Chain Analytics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rosario Paradiso, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Calabria
Wout Dullaertb, Department of Supply Chain Analytics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Honorable Mention
Shubhechyya Ghosal, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London
Wolfram Wiesemann, Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London
2019
First Place
Ho-Yin Mak, University of California-Berkeley
Long He, National University of Singapore Business School
Ying Rong, Lehigh University
Zuo-Jun (Max) Shen, University of California, Berkeley
Honorable Mention
Gilbert Laporte, École des Hautes Études Commerciales Montréal
Okan Arslan
Ola Jabali
2018
Winner(s)
Luke Marshall, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Martin Savelsbergh, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Mike Hewitt, Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago
Natashia Boland, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
2017
Winner(s)
Alexandre Jacquillat, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amedeo R. Odoni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016
First Place
Christian Prins
Michel Gendreau, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Teodor Gabriel Crainic
Thibaut Vidal
2015
First Place
Belgacem Bouzaiene-Ayari
Clark Cheng
Ricardo Fiorillo
Sourav Das
Warren Powell, Princeton University
2014
First Place
Asvin Goel
Thibaut Vidal
2013
First Place
Amedeo R. Odoni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dimitris J. Bertsimas , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management and Operations Research Center
Guglielmo Lulli, University of Milano-Bicocca
2012
First Place
Donald Eisenstein, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
John J. Bartholdi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Stefan Friederichs
Ulrich Derigs
2011
First Place
Aristide Mingozzi
Roberto Baldacci
2010
First Place
Abraham George, Princeton University
Hugo Simao, Princeton University
Jeff Day, Schneider National
John Nienow, Schneider National
Ted Gifford, Schneider
Warren Powell, Princeton University
2008
First Place
Andrea S. Schulz, MIT
Nicolas E. Stier-Moses, Columbia University
Olaf Jahn, Infopark AG
Rolf H. Mohring, Technische Universitat Berlin, Andreas S. Schulz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Honorable Mention
Arne Lokketangen
Gilbert Laporte, École des Hautes Études Commerciales Montréal
Lars M. Hvattum
2007
First Place
Jiamin Zhao, Oracle Corporation
Maged Dessouky, University of Southern California
Satish Bukkapatnam, Oklahoma State University
Honorable Mention
Bert Van Wee, Delft University of Technology
Caspar G. Chorus, Delft University of Technology
Eric J.E. Molin, Delft University of Technology
Georgia Perakis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Guillaume Roels, UCLA Anderson School of Management
Harry J.P. Timmermans, Eindhoven University of Technology
Theo A. Arentze, Eindhoven University of Technology
2006
Awardee(s)
Federale de Lausanne
Frank Crittin, IDIAP Research Institute
Michel Bierlaire, École Polytechnique
2005
Awardee(s)
Anton J. Kleywegt
Martin W.P. Savelsbergh, Georgia Institute of Technology
Vijay S. Nori
2004
Awardee(s)
Francois V. Louveaux, Facultes Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix
Gilbert Laporte, École des Hautes Études Commerciales Montréal
Luc Van Hamme, OM Partners
2003
Awardee(s)
Andrew P. Armacost, U.S. Air Force Academy
Cynthia Barnhart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
K.A. Ware, UPS Airlines
2002
Awardee(s)
Jose Rafael Correa, MIT
Roberto Cominetti, Universidad de Chile