The very first edition took place June 5-11, 1991, in Montréal and the City of Québec, Canada.
TRISTAN was born of the need identified by several researchers in the late 1980's for a high-level international conference on Operations Research in Transportation.
Simultaneously, the Centre for Research on Transportation (C.R.T., now CIRRELT) was involved in the organization of workshops, mainly with colleagues in France and Italy, which were focussed on particular topics within the field, and which indicated a great potential interest and success for an international conference reaching the community broadly.
The discussions crystallized at the EURO conference in Paris in 1988. The name was selected during the conference dinner at the Lutetia Hotel. It was inspired by the ISOLDE (International Symposium on Locational Decisions) series of conferences to which many of us were participating, and the C.R.T. proposed to host the first edition. The rest, as they say, is history and it is reflected in this web site.
We take this opportunity to identify some of the people who were involved, in some way or another, to the creation of TRISTAN (and present our most sincere excuses to those we miss): Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Warren Powell, Martine Labbé, Gilbert Laporte, Pierre Dejax, Michel Gendreau, Marius Solomon (we miss you, Marius), Martin Desrochers (we miss you, Martin), Mark Daskin.
Conference Chairmen
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Teodor Gabriel Crainic Centre de recherche sur les transports (C.R.T., now CIRRELT) and Université du Québec à Montréal |
Warren B. Powell Princeton University |
Organizing Committee
| Teodor Gabriel Crainic | Martin Desrochers | Michel Gendreau |
| Carole Laflamme | Gilbert Laporte | Clairette Simard |
Program Committee
| Michael O. Ball University of Maryland |
Marshall Fisher University of Pennsylvania |
Jan Karel Lenstra Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Alex Belenky USSR Academy of Science |
Terry L. Friesz George Mason University |
Thomas L. Magnanti Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Carlos Daganzo University of California at Berkeley |
Giorgio Gallo University of Pisa |
Amedeo R. Odoni Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Mark S. Daskin Northwestern University |
Patrick T. Harker University of Pennsylvania |
H. Donald Ratliff Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Jacques Desrosiers Centre de recherche sur les transports (C.R.T.) and GERAD |
Alexander H.G. Rinnooy Kan Erasmus University |
Werner Rothengatter Universitlit Karlsruhe |
| Awi Federgruen Columbia University |
Martine Labbe Erasmus University |
Jean-Marc Rousseau Centre de recherche sur les transports (C.R.T.) |
| J. Enrique Fernandez Catholic University of Chile |
Gilbert Laporte Centre de recherche sur les. transports (C.R.T.) and GERAD |
François Soumis Centre de recherche sur les. transports (C.R.T.) and GERAD |
Documents
Complete Program (PDF) – (6 MB)