Models and methods for smart transportation and logistics

运输与物流（TL）系统是人类社会和现代经济的命脉，同时也提出了污染、拥堵、能源消耗等方面的重大挑战。我们提出了一个全面的研究计划，针对城市间和城市货运系统的综合研究，它使物流网络和相关的方法问题。运筹学（OR）为这些系统的分析、评估、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，挑战了这门学科并激励了它的持续发展。我们的长期目标是1)推进手术室和TL方面的知识并传播结果；2)将这些知识实例化为创新方法和决策支持软件，以传递给实际用户；3)为学术界和工业/机构界培训HQP；4)以最好的方式应对挑战，同时为我们的公司和TL系统实现最高水平的效率、盈利能力、竞争力和低环境足迹，以支持我们城市和社会的可持续发展。短期目标针对知识差距和核心TL规划问题。我们的目标是在以下方面取得重大进展：1)集成复杂约束、多层决策和不确定性的大规模网络设计；具有多决策层和同步的多属性时变车辆路径问题；网络与组合优化协同并行求解方法；4)考虑新运营策略和不确定性的多式联运承运人和物流网络战术规划的服务网络设计；5)城市物流系统的设计和规划，涉及城市货运管理的新组织和商业模式，以减少城市可持续发展背景下的拥堵、排放和噪音水平。该计划在解决的主题和方法和应用问题的整合方面是原创的，在科学挑战和高经济和社会应用方面是相关的。它在开发方法上具有创新性。强调其独创性和巨大创新潜力和影响的关键特征包括：整合先前单独解决的规划问题，定义和研究新的组织和业务TL模型，明确考虑不确定性、能源消耗和环境影响，以产生更稳健、有弹性和可持续的计划和系统。该研究计划预计将对科学知识做出重大贡献，并通过技术转让，提高加拿大运输和物流系统的效率和生产力。我们的研究成果将通过演讲、技术报告和论文在期刊上广泛公开地传播。我们解决了主要的OR问题，并期望我们的结果不仅能改变目前的技术状况和解决问题的方式，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。我们研究城市和城际交通和物流的核心问题。我们正在制定规划城市物流系统的标准，并期望与当局一起解决加拿大城市面临的这些挑战。我们期望我们的研究结果有助于提高教育系统在经济、服务质量和社会影响方面的效率，从而为我们城市和国家的可持续发展做出贡献。

Transportation & Logistics (TL) systems are the lifeblood of human society and modern economies, while also raising major challenges in terms of pollution, congestion, energy consumption, etc. We propose a comprehensive research program targeting the integrated study of interurban and urban freight transportation system, the logistics networks it enables 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; 2) instantiate this knowledge into innovative methods and decision-support software for transfer to actual users; 3) train HQP for both the academic and the industrial/institutional worlds; 4) contribute to meet in the best possible way the challenge of simultaneously achieving the highest level of efficiency, profitability, competitiveness and low environmental footprint for our firms and TL systems, to support the sustainable development of our cities and society. The short-term objectives target gaps in knowledge and core TL planning issues. We aim for significant advances in 1) large-scale Network Design integrating complex constraints, several layers of decisions, and uncertainty; 2) multi-attribute time-dependent Vehicle Routing Problems with several decision layers and synchronization; 3) cooperative Parallel Solution Methods for network and combinatorial optimisation; 4) Service Network Design for the tactical planning of modal/intermodal carriers and logistics networks, accounting for novel operation strategies and uncertainty; and 5) the design and planning of City Logistics systems concerned with new organizational and business models for the management of city freight movements to decrease congestion, emissions and noise levels within a sustainable urban development context.The program is original in the topics addressed and the integration of methodological and applied issues, and relevant in the scientific challenges and the high economic and societal applications it targets. It is innovative in the methods developed. Among the key characteristics underscoring its originality and great potential for innovation and impact are the integration of planning issues previously addressed separately, the definition and study of new organizational and business TL models, and explicitly accounting for uncertainty, energy consumption and environmental impacts to yield more robust, resilient, and sustainable plans and systems.The research program is expected to make significant contributions to scientific knowledge and, through technological transfer, increase the efficiency and productivity of Canadian transportation and logistics systems. Our 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 urban and interurban transportation and logistics. We are setting the standards in planning City Logistic systems and expect to accompany authorities in addressing these challenges for Canadian cities. We expect our results to contribute to enhancing the efficiency of TL systems in economic, service quality, and impact on society terms and, thus contribute to the sustainable development of our cities and country.