Operations Research for Transportation and Logistics

运输和物流 (TL) 系统为我们的社会提供支持，同时也带来了污染、拥堵和能源消耗方面的重大挑战。我们提出了一项综合研究计划，针对城市间和城市交通运输系统及相关方法问题的综合研究。运筹学（OR）为这些系统的分析、评估以及优化规划和管理所需的先进模型和方法提供了科学框架，反过来又挑战了该学科并激励其持续发展。 Our long-term objectives are to 1) Advance knowledge in OR and TL and disseminate the results broadly; 2) Transform results into innovative methods and decision-support tools for transfer to users; 3）培训总部； 4) 帮助应对 TL 挑战，同时实现最高水平的效率、盈利能力、竞争力和低环境足迹。短期目标针对知识和核心 TL 设计和规划问题方面的差距： 1) 具有资源管理的定期服务网络设计，用于规划基于整合的 TL 多式联运/多式联运网络，考虑到相互关联的决策层、拥堵、排放、收入管理和不确定性； 2) 城市物流提出新的城市运输管理组织和商业模式，以在可持续城市发展的背景下减少拥堵、排放和化石燃料消耗； 3) New collaborative interurban TL mechanisms to fully use available capacity, add value to stakeholders, & decrease the negative impacts of TL; 4) Autonomous-vehicle fleet operations in urban (flexible transit and City Logistics) and interurban (truck platooning) environments; 5) Large-scale multi-layer multi-period Network Design with structural constraints and uncertainty; 6) Multi-attribute time-dependent Vehicle Routing and Location-Routing problems with several decision layers and synchronization. 该研究计划旨在为科学知识做出重大贡献，并通过技术转让提高加拿大 TL 系统的效率和生产力。 Results will be widely and openly disseminated through presentations, technical reports and papers in refereed journals.我们解决主要的 OR 问题，并期望我们的结果不仅能够改变现有技术和解决问题的方式，而且还能在网络设计、路由、随机程序方法、元启发式和并行计算方面开辟新的研究视角。 We study core issues in TL and are setting standards in planning City Logistic systems.我们期望与当局一起应对加拿大城市的这些挑战，我们的成果有助于提高TL系统在经济、服务质量、社会影响和新技术方面的效率，从而为我们的城市和国家的和谐和可持续发展做出贡献。

Transportation & Logistics (TL) systems support our society while raising major challenges in terms of pollution, congestion and energy consumption. We propose a comprehensive research program targeting the integrated study of interurban and urban TL systems and the associated methodological issues. Operations Research (OR) provides the scientific framework for the advanced models and methods required by the analysis, evaluation, and optimized planning and management of these systems that, in turn, challenge the discipline and motivate its continuous development. Our long-term objectives are to 1) Advance knowledge in OR and TL and disseminate the results broadly; 2) Transform results into innovative methods and decision-support tools for transfer to users; 3) train HQP; 4) Contribute to meet the TL challenge to simultaneously achieve the highest levels of efficiency, profitability, competitiveness, & low environmental footprint. The short-term objectives target gaps in knowledge and core TL design and planning issues: 1) Scheduled Service Network Design with resource management for planning consolidation-based TL multi/intermodal networks, accounting for interrelated decision layers, congestion, emissions, revenue management, and uncertainty; 2) City Logistics proposing new organizational and business models for the management of urban TL to decrease congestion, emissions and fossil fuel consumption within a sustainable urban development context; 3) New collaborative interurban TL mechanisms to fully use available capacity, add value to stakeholders, & decrease the negative impacts of TL; 4) Autonomous-vehicle fleet operations in urban (flexible transit and City Logistics) and interurban (truck platooning) environments; 5) Large-scale multi-layer multi-period Network Design with structural constraints and uncertainty; 6) Multi-attribute time-dependent Vehicle Routing and Location-Routing problems with several decision layers and synchronization. The research program aims for significant contributions to scientific knowledge and, through technological transfer, increase the efficiency and productivity of Canadian TL systems. Results will be widely and openly disseminated through presentations, technical reports and papers in refereed journals. We address major OR problems and expect our results not only to modify the state of the art and the way problems are addressed, but also to open new research perspectives in network design, routing, methods for stochastic programs, meta-heuristics, and parallel computation. We study core issues in TL and are setting standards in planning City Logistic systems. We expect to accompany authorities in addressing these challenges for Canadian cities, and our results to contribute to enhance the efficiency of TL systems in economic, service quality, impact on society and new technology terms and, thus contribute to the harmonious and sustainable development of our cities and country.