Models and methods for advanced transportation and logistics

运输和物流是支持我们大多数经济和社会努力的核心活动。它们的特点是在经济效益、竞争力、服务成本和质量、运营效率、环境影响、对客户预期、法律、法规和经济背景的变化做出迅速反应和调整的能力方面的要求日益严格和迅速变化。生产、采购和分销活动的全球化、基于互联网的电子商务的重大进展以及世界经济的动荡加剧了这些要求，这些要求要求加强规划和管理过程，并以高效、强大和智能的方法和工具为后盾。运筹学是这一情报的核心。该研究计划旨在促进这些领域的科学创新和方法进步，将研究成果应用于开发用于复杂运输和物流系统的分析、规划和运营管理的模型、方法和工具，并为培养高素质的人才做出贡献。在接下来的五年里，研究活动将分为五个相互作用的项目：1.有能力的多种商品网络设计；2.网络和组合优化的并行方法；3.服务网络设计；4.资源分配和管理；5.智能交通系统和电子物流。

Transportation and Logistics are core activities supporting most of our economic and social endeavours. They are characterised by increasingly stringent and rapidly evolving requirements in terms of economic performance, competitiveness, service cost and quality, operation efficiency, environmental impact, capacity to promptly react and adjust to changes in customer expectations, laws, regulations, and economic context. Exacerbated by the globalization of production, procurement, and distribution activities, the significant progress in Internet-based electronic-business, and the volatility of the world economy, these requirements call for enhanced planning and management processes backed by efficient, powerful, and intelligent methods and instruments. Operations Research is at the core of this intelligence. The research program aims to contribute to the scientific innovation and methodological advancement in these areas, to apply the research results to the development of models, methods, and tools for the analysis, planning, and operational management of complex Transportation and Logistics systems, and to contribute to the training of highly qualified personnel. For the next five years, the research activities are grouped into five interacting projects: 1. Capacitated Multicommodity Network Design; 2. Parallel Methods for Network and Combinatorial Optimization; 3. Service Network Design; 4. Resource Allocation and Management; 5. Intelligent Transportation Systems and E-Logistics.