Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual

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.