Welcome

Following the tradition, the fifth TRISTAN conference will be held in Guadeloupe, the butterfly-shaped island in the French West Indies.



Conference Program

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Thursday

9:00 AM
HA1 Heuristics for VRP 2

Robust and Flexible Vehicle Routing in Practical Situations
Kenneth Sörensen, Marc Sevaux

Efficient Local Search for CVRP, Move Decomposition and Sequential Search
Stefan Irnich, Birger Funke, Tore Grünert

Heuristics for Rich VRP Models
Geir Hasle, Atle Riise, Oddvar Kloster

HA2 Transportation Economics

Impacts of Transportation Costs on Biodiversity: An Application in Forestry
Darek Nalle, Jeffrey Arthur

Leveraging Traffic Flow Modeling and Game Theory for Pricing and Logistical Systems
Soulaymane Kachani, Georgia Perakis

Models of the Spiral-Down Effect in Revenue Management
Anton Kleywegt, William Cooper

HA3 Intermodal & Container Transportation

Receding-Horizon Optimal Control for Container Transfer in Intermodal Terminals
Simona Sacone, Silvia Siri, Angelo Alessandri

Modelling and Solving the Intermodal Freight Service Network Timetabling Problem (IFSENT)
Allan Larsen, Michael Berliner Pedersen

A Survey on Operations Research Applications in Container Terminal Logistics
Stefan Voss, Robert Stahlbock, Dirk Steenken

10:30 AM
  Coffee Break
11:00 AM
HB1 Special Routing Problems

The On-Demand Tourist Paths Problem
Ricciardi Nicoletta, Teodor Gabriel Crainic, Giovanni Storchi

The Period Vehicle Routing Problem with Service Level Choice
Karen Smilowitz, Michal Tzur, Peter Francis

A Particular Vehicle Routing Problem Arising in the Collection and Disposal of Special Waste
Federico Malucelli, Maddalena Nonato, Maurizio Bruglieri, Roberto Aringhieri

Vehicle Routing for the Home Delivery of Perishable Products
Jean-Yves Potvin, Michel Gendreau, Nabila Azi

HB2 Demand Modelling

Relations Between Tour Type and Transport Mode Choice: Proposition of Models Estimated by Mixed SP and RP Data
Gabriella Mazzulla, Rosanna Guzzo

A simple method for handling tours with multiple destinations in large scale transport demand models
Odd I. Larsen

A Path Multilevel Cross Nested Logit model for route choice which Allows implicit path enumeration
Andrea Papola, Vittorio Marzano

A new efficient Monte Carlo algorithm for estimating mixed logit models
Philippe Toint, Cinzia Cirillo, Fabian Bastin

HB3 Rail and Truck Transportation

The Cleaning Subproblem of Shunting Passenger Train Units
Ramon Lentink, Leo Kroon

A Dynamic Car Distribution Model with Multiple Lagged Information Processes
Belgacem Bouzaiene-Ayari, Warren Powell, Huseyin Topaloglu

Operational Support for Regional LTL Carriers
Alan Erera, Prashant Warier, Martin Savelsbergh

Sensitivity Analysis of a Dynamic Vehicle Allocation Policy Using Approximate Dynamic Programming and Applications to Fleet Sizing
Huseyin Topaloglu, Warren Powell

1:00 PM
  Lunch
2:30 PM
  Plenary Session : Patrick Jaillet
3:30 PM
  Coffee Break
4:00 PM
HC1 Dynamic Flows

Analytical Modeling of Stochastic Rerouting Delays for Dynamic Multi-Vehicle Pick-up and Delivery Problems
Cristian Cortes, R. Jayakrishnan

Exact Algorithms for Determining Optimal Path Flows in Dynamic and Probabilistic Networks
Elise Miller-Hooks, Sathaporn Opasanon

Hierarchical Aggregation Techniques for Estimating Value Functions for Dynamic Management of Multiattribute Resources
Warren Powell, Abraham George

HC2 Travel Time Estimation

Infrastructure Assessment of Urban Road Networks
Peter Mieth, Ralf-Peter Schäfer, Stefan Lorkowski

Probe vehicles based travel time estimation in urban networks
Alexandre Torday, André-Gilles Dumont

Data Fusion Technique in the Context of Traffic State Estimation
Bernhard Friedrich, Karsten Heinig, Irina Matschke

HC3 Transit Modeling

Rethinking the Wait Model at Transit Stops
Guido Gentile, Stefano Pallottino, Sang Nguyen, Carolina Billi

Short-term Prediction of Transit On-board Loads Using a Schedule-based Dynamic Approach
Umberto Crisalli, Luca Rosati

Path Choice Models in Transit Networks with Advanced Public Transportation Information Systems (APTIS)
Agostino Nuzzolo, Pierluigi Coppola