Program

PROGRAM

Days: Sunday, July 26th Monday, July 27th Tuesday, July 28th Wednesday, July 29th

Sunday, July 26th

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18:00-20:00 Welcome Reception

MIT Museum, 314 Main St, Cambridge, MA 02142

Monday, July 27th

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08:00-09:30 Session MA-R1: Retail Fulfillment and Supply Chain Planning

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Leyla Tavassoli

Location: Salon 3 (6th floor)

08:00	Myungeun Eom and Alejandro Toriello Case-Pack Allocation for E-Commerce Retailers (abstract) PRESENTER: Myungeun Eom
08:30	Nidhima Grover, Xiaoyan Si and Alejandro Toriello The Fulfillment Regionalization Problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Nidhima Grover
09:00	Leyla Tavassoli and Halit Üster Multi-Period Bioenergy Supply Chain Planning Incorporating Biomass Pricing and Perishability (abstract) PRESENTER: Leyla Tavassoli

08:00-09:30 Session MA-R2: Stochastic Fleet, Inspection, and Maritime Portfolio Planning

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Nikolay Aristov

Location: Salon 4 (6th floor)

08:00	Juan-Alberto Estrada-Garcia and Siqian Shen Multi-stage Stochastic Optimizing and Reinforcement Learning Approaches for Dynamic Inspection of Infrastructure Systems (abstract) PRESENTER: Juan-Alberto Estrada-Garcia
08:30	Justin Goodson, Maximiliano Cubillos, Ola Jabali and Elena Tappia Dynamic Truck Scheduling Using Estimated Times of Arrival (abstract) PRESENTER: Justin Goodson
09:00	Nikolay Aristov, Eduardo Cuya and Elenna Dugundji Fleet Portfolio Optimization for Multi-Product Maritime Networks: A Stochastic Integer Programming Approach with Risk Management (abstract) PRESENTER: Nikolay Aristov

08:00-09:30 Session MA-R3: Drone Delivery and Intra-City Express Logistics

Last-Mile & Urban Logistics

Chair:

Kai Wang

Location: Salon 5 (6th floor)

08:00	Xiaodeng Hao, Ying Yang and Shuaian Wang The drone scheduling problem in shore-to-ship delivery: A time discretization-based model with an exact solving approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Xiaodeng Hao
08:30	Tirui Cao, Lei Zhao, Alexandre Jacquillat, Alexandria Schmid and Yixiao Huang Intra-City Express Delivery Service Network Design (abstract) PRESENTER: Tirui Cao
09:00	Kai Wang, Xiaowei Wang and Wei Zhang Optimizing Coordinated Logistics by Drones and Public Transit for Efficient Deliveries (abstract) PRESENTER: Wei Zhang

08:00-09:30 Session MA-R4: Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Vehicle Routing

Vehicle Routing

Chair:

Amirmohammad Paksaz

Location: Salon 6 (6th floor)

08:00	Shohre Zehtabian and Marlin Ulmer Consistent Home Healthcare Routing with Patient Fluctuation (abstract) PRESENTER: Marlin Ulmer
08:30	Hyungjoo Cha, Jaewon Kim, Euijin Lee, Dohyung Kim, Taesu Cheong and Chelsea C. White III Routing Optimization for Field Artillery Units with Scheduling Considerations (abstract) PRESENTER: Hyungjoo Cha
09:00	Amirmohammad Paksaz and Jeffrey Ohlmann Contextual Combinatorial Bandit for Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Profits (abstract) PRESENTER: Amirmohammad Paksaz

08:00-09:30 Session MA-R5: Bus Networks, Network Design Games, and Network Efficiency

Traffic, Demand & Network Equilibrium

Chair:

Hao Hao

Location: Salon West (7th Floor)

08:00	Juan Carlos Martinez Mori, Saigopal Rangaraj and Stavros Roditis Redesigning Bus Networks at Scale (abstract) PRESENTER: Juan Carlos Martinez Mori
08:30	Mingjia He, Runyu Zhang, Andrea Censi, Emilio Frazzoli and Gioele Zardini Co-Investment with Payoff-Sharing Mechanism for Cooperative Decision-Making in Network Design Games (abstract) PRESENTER: Mingjia He
09:00	Hao Hao, Hai Wang and Peter Zhang Assessing and Explaining Urban Transportation Network Efficiency (abstract) PRESENTER: Hao Hao

08:00-09:30 Session MA-R6: Air Traffic, Aircraft Maintenance, and Information Collection

Transit, Rail, Air & Multimodal

Chair:

Erin Mitchell

Location: Salon T (7th Floor)

08:00	Wayne Ng, Nuno Ribeiro and Sebastian Birolini Data-driven Optimization of Aircraft Sequencing and Descent Trajectories for Fuel Efficiency in the Terminal Manoeuvring Area (abstract) PRESENTER: Sebastian Birolini
08:30	Xiyitao Zhu, Ankur Mani and Lavanya Marla Optimal Schedules for Information Collection in Airspace Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Xiyitao Zhu
09:00	Erin Mitchell and Anna Matthes Bi-Objective Stochastic Inventory Placement with Scenario-Based Uncertainty for Aircraft Maintenance Facilities (abstract) PRESENTER: Erin Mitchell

09:30-10:00Coffee Break

10:00-11:30 Session MB-R1: Shipment Consolidation and Inventory–Transportation Integration

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Sila Cetinkaya

Location: Salon 3 (6th floor)

10:00	Hannah Yee, Heletjé van Staden and Niels Agatz Delay-Adaptive Expediting for Resilient and Sustainable Freight Transport Corridors (abstract) PRESENTER: Hannah Yee
10:30	Bipan Zou, Yuqian Shi, Jiliu Li and Rui Zhang Exact Algorithms for Shipment Consolidation Problems with Various Nonlinear Cost Structures (abstract) PRESENTER: Bipan Zou
11:00	Sila Cetinkaya, Liqing Zhang and Eylem Tekin The Impact of Temporal Shipment Consolidation on Integrated Inventory-Transportation Decisions (abstract) PRESENTER: Sila Cetinkaya

10:00-11:30 Session MB-R2: Evacuation Planning and Equitable Food Accessibility

Disaster, Humanitarian & Resilience

Chair:

Vala Rahmati

Location: Salon 4 (6th floor)

10:00	Hongzheng Shi, Xinglu Liu, Jiguang Wang, Kai Wang and Jintao Ke Multimodal Mass Evacuation: Formulations, Decomposition Algorithms and An Application to Metro Disruption (abstract) PRESENTER: Hongzheng Shi
10:30	Jihye Na, Hadi Charkhgard and Changhyun Kwon A Bilevel Optimization Framework for Incentive-Guided Profitable Tour Problem toward Equitable Food Accessibility (abstract) PRESENTER: Jihye Na
11:00	Vala Rahmati and Halit Uster Time-Dependent Integrated Network Design for Supply and Demand in Disaster Response (abstract) PRESENTER: Vala Rahmati

10:00-11:30 Session MB-R3: Reverse Logistics, Returns, and Reliable Facility Location

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Tina Radvand

Location: Salon 5 (6th floor)

10:00	Austin Saragih, Lara Pontes, Saurabh Amin and Jan Fransoo Spin the Bottle Bill: Deposit-Refund System Policy and Reverse Supply Chain Design (abstract) PRESENTER: Austin Saragih
10:30	Sheetal, Ann Campbell, Qi Luo and Jeffrey Ohlmann Outbound Shipping Decisions in Two-Echelon Reverse Logistics Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Sheetal
11:00	Tina Radvand, Yanfeng Ouyang and Alireza Talebpour Reliable Facility Location Design under Correlated Disruptions and Imperfect Information (abstract) PRESENTER: Tina Radvand

10:00-11:30 Session MB-R4: Exact Algorithms and Column Generation for Routing

Vehicle Routing

Chair:

Ling Zhu

Location: Salon 6 (6th floor)

10:00	Ying Yang, Xiaodeng Hao, Silong Zhang and Shuaian Wang An Exact Price-and-Enumerate Algorithm for Vehicle Routing Problem with Speed Optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Ying Yang
10:30	Bart van Rossum, Rolf van Lieshout and Alexandre Jacquillat Exact Bucket-Based Column Generation for Nested Path Problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Bart van Rossum
11:00	Ling Zhu, Simon Belieres, Mike Hewitt and Lingxiao Wu Joint Fleet Scheduling and Cargo Flow Allocation for Air Cargo Services (abstract) PRESENTER: Ling Zhu

10:00-11:30 Session MB-R5: Demand Management and Travel Demand Modeling

Traffic, Demand & Network Equilibrium

Chair:

Yueshuai He

Location: Salon West (7th Floor)

10:00	Daniela Sailer, Robert Klein and Claudius Steinhardt Dynamic Demand Management for Probabilistic Out-of-Home Delivery Options (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniela Sailer
10:30	Xinwei Chen, Wenchang Zhang and Marlin Ulmer Dynamic Fleet Management with Endogenous Demand Growth in On-Demand Delivery: A Reinforcement Learning Approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Xinwei Chen
11:00	Yueshuai He, Eronmonsele Esekhaigbe and Lihui Bai An Integer Program Approach for Generating Activity-Based Travel Demand from Trip-Based Model (abstract) PRESENTER: Yueshuai He

10:00-11:30 Session MB-R6: School Bus, Transit, and Passenger-Freight Scheduling

Transit, Rail, Air & Multimodal

Chair:

Dipayan Banerjee

Location: Salon T (7th Floor)

10:00	Dongyang Xia, Yahan Lu, Lixing Yang, Yousef Maknoon and Shadi Sharif Azadeh Vehicle scheduling in modularized transit networks for passenger-freight co-modal operations with end-to-end freight logistics (abstract) PRESENTER: Yahan Lu
10:30	Prabhat Hegde and Vikrant Vaze Rural School Bus Routing and Scheduling (abstract) PRESENTER: Prabhat Hegde
11:00	Dipayan Banerjee and Karen Smilowitz A Continuous Approximation Framework for Public School Transportation Policymaking (abstract) PRESENTER: Dipayan Banerjee

11:30-12:45Lunch Break

Lunch on your own. Several options available on-site or close proximity.

12:45-13:45 Session K1: KEYNOTE I

Cynthia Barnhart

Abraham J. Siegel Professor of Management

Ford Foundation Professor of Engineering

Professor in Operations Research

MIT Sloan School of Management

Location: Salon M (7th floor)

14:00-15:30 Session MC-R1: Middle-Mile Freight Network Design

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Sarah Powell

Location: Salon 3 (6th floor)

14:00	Gita Taherkhani, Dipayan Banerjee and Mike Hewitt Electrifying middle-mile freight networks under shipper emissions sensitivity (abstract) PRESENTER: Gita Taherkhani
14:30	Roberto Maria Rosati, Yannick Oskar Scherr, Mike Hewitt and Margaretha Gansterer Towards a Decentralized Approach for Collaborative Service Network Design (abstract) PRESENTER: Roberto Maria Rosati
15:00	Sarah Powell, Ann Campbell and No Third Author No Third Author Underground Tunnel Transportation for Middle Mile Delivery (abstract) PRESENTER: Sarah Powell

14:00-15:30 Session MC-R2: Wildfire, Humanitarian, and Military Logistics

Disaster, Humanitarian & Resilience

Chair:

Ryne Reger

Location: Salon 4 (6th floor)

14:00	Qingyi Wang and Xiaofeng Nie Joint Area Clearing and Path Planning for Military and Humanitarian Logistics Applications (abstract) PRESENTER: Xiaofeng Nie
14:30	Micah Borrero, Bharadwaj Eswaran, Shraddha Rana and Max Li A Predict-Then-Optimize Framework for Data-Driven Decision Making in Commercial-Humanitarian Airlift Operations (abstract) PRESENTER: Micah Borrero
15:00	Léonard Boussioux, Alexandre Jacquillat, Ryne Reger and Jacob Wachspress Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics toward Optimizing Wildfire Suppression (abstract) PRESENTER: Ryne Reger

14:00-15:30 Session MC-R3: Time Windows, Slotting, and Real-Time Monitoring

Last-Mile & Urban Logistics

Chair:

Gustavo Hurovich

Location: Salon 5 (6th floor)

14:00	Katrin Waßmuth Time Window Assortment Design with Stochastic Demand: The Value of Overlapping Time Windows (abstract)
14:30	Jaime Macias Aguayo, Duncan McFarlane and Maharshi Dhada Valuing Real-Time Digital Monitoring for On-Time Operational Performance (abstract) PRESENTER: Jaime Macias Aguayo
15:00	Gustavo Hurovich, Niels Agatz and Lucas Petrus Veelenturf Fast Approaches for Interactive Time Slotting (abstract) PRESENTER: Gustavo Hurovich

14:00-15:30 Session MC-R4: Stochastic Vehicle Routing under Disruptions

Vehicle Routing

Chair:

Duygu Tas

Location: Salon 6 (6th floor)

14:00	Chenghua Yang, Jie Gao and Bilge Atasoy Choice-based periodic vehicle routing and pricing (abstract) PRESENTER: Chenghua Yang
14:30	Karel Scheepstra and Bilge Atasoy Two-stage stochastic programming for VRP with vehicle breakdown (abstract) PRESENTER: Bilge Atasoy
15:00	Emir Tiryaki, Duygu Tas and İhsan Sadati A Metaheuristic Approach for the Stochastic Vehicle Routing Problem with Flexible Deliveries (abstract) PRESENTER: Duygu Tas

14:00-15:30 Session MC-R5: Congestion Pricing and Routing Games

Traffic, Demand & Network Equilibrium

Chair:

Devansh Jalota

Location: Salon West (7th Floor)

14:00	Hanzhang Wang and Manxi Wu Dynamic Information Design in Routing Games with Learning Agents (abstract) PRESENTER: Hanzhang Wang
14:30	Chih-Yuan Chiu, Devansh Jalota and Marco Pavone Credit vs. Discount-Based Congestion Pricing: A Comparison Study (abstract) PRESENTER: Chih-Yuan Chiu
15:00	Devansh Jalota, Adam Elmachtoub and Sharon Di Simple vs. Optimal Congestion Pricing (abstract) PRESENTER: Devansh Jalota

14:00-15:30 Session MC-R6: Line Planning and Shared Micromobility Network Design

Transit, Rail, Air & Multimodal

Chair:

Ning Duan

Location: Salon T (7th Floor)

14:00	Pushpendra Singh and Vikrant Vaze Optimizing Shared Micromobility Service Network Design (abstract) PRESENTER: Pushpendra Singh
14:30	Gabriel Deza, Tal Raviv and Michal Tzur Routing in Line Networks with Handling Times (abstract) PRESENTER: Gabriel Deza
15:00	Ning Duan, Oktay Gunluk and Samitha Samaranayake Transit Line Planning with Heterogeneous Vehicles Capacities (abstract) PRESENTER: Ning Duan

15:30-16:00Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Session MD-R1: Parcel Service Network Design and Capacity Pooling

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Walid Klibi

Location: Salon 3 (6th floor)

16:00	Louis Bonnet, Simon Belieres, Mike Hewitt and Sandra Ulrich Ngueveu Commodity Aggregation-Based Relaxation Techniques for Large Scale Instances of the Scheduled Service Network Design Problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Louis Bonnet
16:30	Ritesh Ojha and Alan Erera Robust Outbound Load Planning with Volume Splitting for Parcel Carriers (abstract) PRESENTER: Ritesh Ojha
17:00	Maher Salah, Eva Petitdemange, Walid Klibi, Matthieu Lauras and Johan Leveque Managing Residual Capacity through Dynamic Pooling in Hyperconnected Parcel Distribution Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Walid Klibi

16:00-17:30 Session MD-R2: Flood Response, Shelter Allocation, and Adaptive Routing

Disaster, Humanitarian & Resilience

Chair:

Angela Acocella

Location: Salon 4 (6th floor)

16:00	Jimin Choi, Grant Stagg, Cameron Peterson and Max Li Bi-Level Route Optimization and Path Planning with Hazard Exploration (abstract) PRESENTER: Jimin Choi
16:30	William Zhang, Maxime Bouscary, Rohit Parasnis, Emma McDaniel, Jenny Rowlett, Jeffrey Liu, Sai Ravela, Georgia Perakis and Saurabh Amin Generative AI–Assisted Decision Support for Optimal Shelter Allocation during Floods (abstract) PRESENTER: William Zhang
17:00	Katerina Boukin, Angela Acocella and Yossi Sheffi Resilient Route Mapping: A Framework for Flood-Adaptive Logistics, Infrastructure, and Emergency Response (abstract) PRESENTER: Angela Acocella

16:00-17:30 Session MD-R3: Last-Mile Parking, Depot Returns, and Green Fleet Design

Last-Mile & Urban Logistics

Chair:

Bahar Cavdar

Location: Salon 5 (6th floor)

16:00	Farima Salamian, Ann Campbell and Sara Reed Parking-Aware Routing for Last-Mile Delivery (abstract) PRESENTER: Farima Salamian
16:30	Sara Reed and Xinwei Chen Preemptive Depot Returns for Same-Day Delivery with Parking (abstract) PRESENTER: Sara Reed
17:00	Bahar Cavdar, Subhojit Biswas and Joseph Geunes Repair Crew Routing for Infrastructure Network Restoration under Incomplete Information (abstract) PRESENTER: Bahar Cavdar

16:00-17:30 Session MD-R4: Learning-Augmented Vehicle Routing and Location-Routing

Vehicle Routing

Chair:

Anirudh Subramanyam

Location: Salon 6 (6th floor)

16:00	Daniel Yamin, Willem-Jan van Hoeve and Ted Ralphs A Comparison of Dantzig-Wolfe and Arc-Flow Reformulations with Application to Vehicle Routing (abstract) PRESENTER: Daniel Yamin
16:30	Macarena Navarro, Karan Singh, Willem-Jan van Hoeve and Segev Wasserkrug Approximate Constraint Reasoning in Neural Policies for the TSP with Time Windows (abstract) PRESENTER: Macarena Navarro
17:00	Waquar Kaleem, Doyoung Lee, Changhyun Kwon and Anirudh Subramanyam Neural Embedded Mixed-Integer Optimization for Location-Routing Problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Anirudh Subramanyam

16:00-17:30 Session MD-R5: Traffic Control, Curb Management, and Road Safety

Traffic, Demand & Network Equilibrium

Chair:

Alexandre Jacquillat

Location: Salon West (7th Floor)

16:00	Jisoon Lim and Neda Masoud Law Enforcement in Curb Space Management: A Game-Theoretic and Optimization-Based Analysis of Operator, User, and Regulator Interactions (abstract) PRESENTER: Jisoon Lim
16:30	Xingmin Wang, Xingyi He, Zihao Wang and Henry Liu A New Operational Primitive for Automated Intersections (abstract) PRESENTER: Xingmin Wang
17:00	Philippe Adjiman, Maxime Cohen, David Fresco, Alexandre Jacquillat and Roy Sasson Targeted alerts to improve road safety (abstract) PRESENTER: Alexandre Jacquillat

16:00-17:30 Session MD-R6: Ride-Hailing Matching, Pricing, and Ride-Pooling

Shared Mobility, Micromobility & Autonomous Systems

Chair:

Avital Shamir

Location: Salon T (7th Floor)

16:00	Arthur Delarue, Zhen Lian and Tony Qin Learning Competition Status with Small Samples in Ride-Hailing Platforms (abstract) PRESENTER: Arthur Delarue
16:30	Junlin Chen, Chiwei Yan and Hai Jiang On the Linear Programming Model for Dynamic Stochastic Matching and Its Application to Pricing (abstract) PRESENTER: Chiwei Yan
17:00	Avital Shamir, David Epstein and Mor Kaspi An Optimization Framework for Ride-Pooling Services Incorporating a Simulation–Mode Choice Feedback Loop (abstract) PRESENTER: Avital Shamir

Tuesday, July 28th

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08:00-09:30 Session TA-R1: Uncertain Freight and Rail Network Planning

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Qiaofeng Li

Location: Salon 3 (6th floor)

08:00	Yunji Kim, Amira Hijazi, Kevin Dalmeijer and Pascal Van Hentenryck Locomotive Assignment under Schedule Uncertainty (abstract) PRESENTER: Yunji Kim
08:30	Gita Taherkhani, Mojtaba Hosseini and Ali Hassanzadeh Risk-averse planning for multi-stakeholder freight transportation systems: integrating strategic resource allocation and service network design (abstract) PRESENTER: Mojtaba Hosseini
09:00	Qiaofeng Li and Halit Üster A bilevel approach for multi-period relay network design with uncertain user preferences (abstract) PRESENTER: Qiaofeng Li

08:00-09:30 Session TA-R2: Sharing Platforms: Riders, Maintenance, and Demand Estimation

Shared Mobility, Micromobility & Autonomous Systems

Chair:

Yuxin Sun

Location: Salon 4 (6th floor)

08:00	Jay Mulay, Diptangshu Sen and Juba Ziani Rider Strategic Behavior in Ride-Sharing Platforms (abstract) PRESENTER: Jay Mulay
08:30	Jonas Stein, Arne Heinold and Marlin Ulmer Balancing Operational and Tactical Objectives in Dynamic Bike-Sharing Maintenance (abstract) PRESENTER: Jonas Stein
09:00	Yuxin Sun and Song Gao Ride-Sourcing Demand Estimation Using Aggregated Public Data (abstract) PRESENTER: Yuxin Sun

08:00-09:30 Session TA-R3: On-Demand and Meal Delivery Dispatch

Last-Mile & Urban Logistics

Chair:

Dongyang Xia

Location: Salon 5 (6th floor)

08:00	Yihua Wang, Long He, Zhengling Qi and Stefan Minner Dispatch or Hold? An Inverse Optimization and Reinforcement Learning Approach for Multi-Objective On-Demand Delivery (abstract) PRESENTER: Long He
08:30	Junlin Chen, Manxi Wu, Chiwei Yan and Zhanhao Zhang Mixed-Type Courier Dispatching and Pricing for Online Food Delivery Platforms (abstract) PRESENTER: Junlin Chen
09:00	Dongyang Xia, Alejandro Toriello and Shadi Sharif Azadeh Urgency-Aware Order Assignments for Meal Delivery (abstract) PRESENTER: Dongyang Xia

08:00-09:30 Session TA-R4: Machine Learning and Surrogates for Routing

Vehicle Routing

Chair:

Debdatta Sinha Roy

Location: Salon 6 (6th floor)

08:00	Christian Truden, Margaretha Gansterer, Dominic Loske and Matthias Klumpp {Learning-based Assignment of Drivers to Customers in Delivery Operations (abstract) PRESENTER: Christian Truden
08:30	Waquar Kaleem and Anirudh Subramanyam Offline Model-Based Routing Optimization with MIP-Representable Deep Set Surrogates (abstract) PRESENTER: Waquar Kaleem
09:00	Hugo Mainguy, Bruce Golden, Luca Bertazzi and Debdatta Sinha Roy Using Randomized Heuristics, Regression, and Machine Learning to Estimate the Close Enough TSP Optimal Tour Length (abstract) PRESENTER: Debdatta Sinha Roy

08:00-09:30 Session TA-R5: Stochastic User Equilibrium and Network Uncertainty

Traffic, Demand & Network Equilibrium

Chair:

Wencheng Bao

Location: Salon West (7th Floor)

08:00	Wencheng Bao, Chrysafis Vogiatzis and Eleftheria Kontou Risk-Averse Stochastic User Equilibrium on Uncertain Transportation Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Eleftheria Kontou
08:30	Menglin Kong and Lijun Sun A Gibbs Posterior View of User Equilibrium: Temperature Scaling of Uncertainty (abstract) PRESENTER: Menglin Kong
09:00	Wencheng Bao, Eleftheria Kontou and Chrysafis Vogiatzis Betweenness Central Nodes Under Uncertainty: An Absorbing Markov Chain Approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Wencheng Bao

08:00-09:30 Session TA-R6: Multimodal Transit Network Design and Demand Estimation

Transit, Rail, Air & Multimodal

Chair:

Shriya Karam

Location: Salon T (7th Floor)

08:00	Mike Hewitt, Paul Bischoff and Maximilian Schiffer The potential of cargo-hitching (abstract) PRESENTER: Mike Hewitt
08:30	Alexandre Jacquillat and Shriya Karam Integrating qualitative data into demand estimation for transit service design (abstract) PRESENTER: Shriya Karam

09:30-10:00Coffee Break

10:00-11:30 Session TB-R1: Dynamic Discretization for Service Network Design

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Yarui Zhang

Location: Salon 3 (6th floor)

10:00	Joseph Boone and Mathieu Dahan Dynamic Discretization for Multi-Modal Fleet Coordination in Expeditionary Logistics (abstract) PRESENTER: Mathieu Dahan
10:30	Weiqing Xu, Alan Erera and Oktay Gunluk Dynamic Discretization Discovery for Time-Expanded Network Design with Time Windows (abstract) PRESENTER: Weiqing Xu
11:00	Yarui Zhang, Shengnan Shu, Roberto Baldacci and Zhou Xu A New Exact Algorithm for Continuous-Time Service Network Design with Splittable Delivery (abstract) PRESENTER: Yarui Zhang

10:00-11:30 Session TB-R2: Supply Chain Resilience and Disruption Response

Disaster, Humanitarian & Resilience

Chair:

Alican Yilmaz

Location: Salon 4 (6th floor)

10:00	Batuhan Celik, Bahar Cavdar and Jennifer Pazour Understanding Participation of Competing Firms in Supply Chain Information Sharing under Disruptions (abstract) PRESENTER: Batuhan Celik
10:30	Chelsey Graham, Jarrod Goentzel, Ozlem Ergun and Margaret Traeger Improving supply chain network resilience: A framework for diagnosing vulnerabilities in e-commerce distribution networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Chelsey Graham
11:00	Alican Yilmaz, Daniel Kosmas and Ozlem Ergun Inventory Prepositioning as a Resilience Strategy Under Disruptions (abstract) PRESENTER: Alican Yilmaz

10:00-11:30 Session TB-R3: Last-Mile Fleet Sizing and Delivery-Point Design

Last-Mile & Urban Logistics

Chair:

Zhengtian Xu

Location: Salon 5 (6th floor)

10:00	Benjamín Rojas, Homero Larrain, Mathias Klapp and Dipayan Banerjee A Newsvendor Model for Last-Mile Fleet Sizing (abstract) PRESENTER: Benjamín Rojas
10:30	Benjamín Rojas, Homero Larrain and Mathias Klapp Strategic design of collection and delivery point networks for urban parcel distribution (abstract) PRESENTER: Mathias Klapp
11:00	Xi Feng, Linxuan Shi and Zhengtian Xu A Queueing-Theoretic Approximation of Truck–Drone Collaborative Delivery (abstract) PRESENTER: Zhengtian Xu

10:00-11:30 Session TB-R4: Graph Learning for Shortest Paths and Routing Solvers

Vehicle Routing

Chair:

Stefan Voigt

Location: Salon 6 (6th floor)

10:00	Jingyi Chen, Xinyuan Zhang and Xinwu Qian Unsupervised Learning for the Elementary Shortest Path Problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Xinwu Qian
10:30	Haoran Liu and Yu Yang Graph Transformers on Augmented Graphs for Scalable Rounded Capacity Cut Separation (abstract) PRESENTER: Haoran Liu
11:00	Stefan Voigt, Johannes Gückel and Pirmin Fontaine Supervised machine learning for accelerating solvers and metaheuristics in routing problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Stefan Voigt

10:00-11:30 Session TB-R5: Traffic Assignment and Stochastic Flow Models

Traffic, Demand & Network Equilibrium

Chair:

Xuesong Zhou

Location: Salon West (7th Floor)

10:00	Rui Yao and Kenan Zhang Perturbed utility Markovian traffic assignment (abstract) PRESENTER: Rui Yao
10:30	Yanlin Zhang and Alireza Talebpour Stochastic Shockwave Dynamics in First-Order Traffic Flow Models (abstract) PRESENTER: Yanlin Zhang
11:00	Xuesong Zhou, Peiheng Li, Yuchao Li and Dimitri P. Bertsekas Low-Rank Convex Optimization for Scalable Traffic Assignment (abstract) PRESENTER: Xuesong Zhou

10:00-11:30 Session TB-R6: Airport Passenger Flow, Capacity, and Fleet Assignment

Transit, Rail, Air & Multimodal

Chair:

Keji Wei

Location: Salon T (7th Floor)

10:00	Sohyeong Kim, Alexandre Jacquillat, Amedeo Odoni, Hamsa Balakrishnan, Jinhua Zhao, Bangyi Wu, Yuan Shi and Hai Wang A Temporal–Spatial Airport Passenger Flow Modeling Framework (abstract) PRESENTER: Sohyeong Kim
10:30	Ziyue Li and Qianwen Guo Airport Capacity Expansion Under Demand Uncertainty and Present-Biased Decisions (abstract) PRESENTER: Ziyue Li
11:00	Ziyue Zhang, Keji Wei, Ritesh Ojha and Luke Marshall Fleet Assignment and Timetabling with Passenger Choice Model: Volumetric Adaptive Network Tailoring Approach via Guided Exploration (abstract) PRESENTER: Keji Wei

11:30-13:30Lunch Break combined with Posters session

Boxed Lunch will be provided during this combined Lunch+Poster session

11:30-13:30 Session Posters: Displays will be up throughout the conference.

Posters need to be attended by the presenters during this session.

Location: Salon M (7th floor)

Estéfano Viteri and Luis M. Torres

Transition to electric buses in feeder lines in Quito - Ecuador: An integer programming model (abstract)

PRESENTER: Estéfano Viteri

Tingting Chen, Feng Chu and Jiantong Zhang

Sequential Service Region Design Under Investment Limitation and Spillover Effect (abstract)

PRESENTER: Tingting Chen

Mingye Luan and Bilge Atasoy

Optimal Taxes and Subsidies for Sustainable City Logistics: A Multi-Agency Bilevel Game-Theoretic Framework (abstract)

PRESENTER: Mingye Luan

Ethan Kolby and Max Li

Optimal Agricultural Drone Deployment and Routing with Weather-Aware Planning (abstract)

PRESENTER: Ethan Kolby

Ehsan Poorvahedi and Janille Smith-Colin

Integrated Dynamic Optimization of Shared E-Scooter Systems: Real-Time Battery-Aware Repositioning and Rider Incentive System (abstract)

PRESENTER: Ehsan Poorvahedi

Jason Lu and Neda Masoud

Cooperation and Competition in Multimodal Transportation Incentive Programs: A Tri-level Game-Theoretic Optimization Approach (abstract)

PRESENTER: Jason Lu

Hiroyuki Hasada, Motoya Ueda and Yudai Honma

Base Loop: Fleet Deployment for On-Demand CAV Services Verified via Queuing Models (abstract)

PRESENTER: Hiroyuki Hasada

Alex Carroll

Fast Barge, Smart Prices: Deep RL for Mississippi Container Service Feasibility (abstract)

Rashika Gupta and Debjit Roy

Stochastic Control of EV Charging with Priority Classes and Power-Adaptive Mode Switching (abstract)

PRESENTER: Rashika Gupta

Artavazd Khachatryan

"Yeraz" Electric Transit Optimizer (abstract)

Haohui Zhang, Wouter van Heeswijk, Neil Yorke-Smith and Martijn Mes

Optimizing Real-time Freight Bundling via Deep Learning--Accelerated Heuristics (abstract)

PRESENTER: Haohui Zhang

Xizi Qiao, Ying Yang, Qinghe Sun and Shuaian Wang

A branch-and-price approach for optimizing all-electric ships scheduling in waterborne transport (abstract)

PRESENTER: Xizi Qiao

Zhaomiao Guo and Xiangyu Li

SVBRD-LLM: Self-Verifying Behavioral Rule Discovery for Autonomous Vehicle Identification (abstract)

PRESENTER: Xiangyu Li

Yuan Liu

Strategic Deployment of Onboard Carbon Capture to Green the Maritime Supply Chain (abstract)

Changyue Xu and Wei Zhu

Understanding the Long Tail Effect: A Multi-Scenario Spatiotemporal Analysis of Small-Scale OD Trips on Urban Rail Flow Distribution (abstract)

PRESENTER: Changyue Xu

Ari Prezerowitz, Selene Silvestri, Matthias Winkenbach and Juan Carlos Pina Pardo

Machine Learning for Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing (abstract)

PRESENTER: Ari Prezerowitz

Kazhal Gharibi, Ping-Hung Hsieh, Karl Haapala and Kevin Zhang

Growth Planning in Emerging Agricultural Supply Chains: Demand Scaling and Warehouse Opening Thresholds (abstract)

PRESENTER: Kazhal Gharibi

Takara Sakai and Yasunari Hikima

Inverse Optimal Transport for Bottleneck Models: Estimating Temporal Travel Demand Distributions (abstract)

PRESENTER: Yasunari Hikima

Yidi Miao, Eojin Han and Peter Zhang

Geofenced Demand-Responsive Transit: Autonomous Vehicle Fleet Sizing and District Design Under Spatial Demand Uncertainty (abstract)

PRESENTER: Yidi Miao

Zhixian Tang, Weihua Gu, Edward Chung and Lijun Sun

Dynamic network traffic signal optimization via data-driven link dynamics model (abstract)

PRESENTER: Zhixian Tang

Chuang Zhu, Kenan Zhang, Patrick Stokkink and Huijun Sun

Cooperative bargaining for integrated passenger-freight transport systems with modular autonomous vehicles (MAVs) (abstract)

PRESENTER: Patrick Stokkink

Kexin Wang, Haohui He and Ruolin Li

When Altruism Meets Autonomy: Managing Bottleneck Congestion with Strategic Autonomous Vehicles (abstract)

PRESENTER: Ruolin Li

Liyan Jing, Xitong Fan and Yanjun Wang

Hybrid Learning-Based Slot Allocation in Airport Networks with Flying Time Flexibility (abstract)

PRESENTER: Liyan Jing

Kaihang Zhang, Ce Wang, Jintao Ke and Yafeng Yin

Time constraint–driven bundling and matching with network effect in on-demand delivery (abstract)

PRESENTER: Kaihang Zhang

Alexandra Evseeva, Srinivas Tamvada and Elkafi Hassini

Machine‑Learning‑Assisted Heuristics for Hub Selection in LTL Freight Networks (abstract)

PRESENTER: Alexandra Evseeva

Özge Aygül, Yasutora Ito, Yunus Telliel, Sarah Stanlick, Jennifer Pazour and Andrew C. Trapp

From Auction to Delivery: Fast Resource Exchange and Collaborative Routing with SWAP-and-Route (abstract)

PRESENTER: Yasutora Ito

Chonghe Jiang, Xinyu Chen and Jinhua Zhao

Interpretable Traffic Time Series Imputation via Hankel Lifting and Robust Regularization (abstract)

PRESENTER: Chonghe Jiang

Davood Mohammadi, Konstantinos G. Zografos and Burak Boyaci

Multi-Objective Column Generation for Solving the combined Airport Declared Capacity and Slot Allocation Problem (abstract)

PRESENTER: Konstantinos G. Zografos

Scott Smith, Ian Berg, Xuesong Zhou and Henan Zhu

GMNS: A Global Open Network Standard for Transportation Science and Logistics (abstract)

PRESENTER: Henan Zhu

Rui Ma, Zilin Bian and Kaan Ozbay

Cooperative dispatch of mobile charging trucks during mass evacuation (abstract)

PRESENTER: Rui Ma

Shiyu Shen, Yuhui Zhai and Yanfeng Ouyang

Expected Optimal Distances of Random Bipartite Matching in D-dimensional Spaces (abstract)

PRESENTER: Shiyu Shen

Yanxia Guan, Xuecheng Tian and Shuaian Wang

A mixture ensemble learning method for ship selection in maritime transportation (abstract)

PRESENTER: Yanxia Guan

Tara Eslaminokandeh, Ozlem Ergun, Kunind Sharma, Michael Kane, Hannah Johnston and Juliet Schor

Analyzing Adaptive Platform Worker Interactions in the Gig Economy Using Agent-Based Modeling (abstract)

PRESENTER: Tara Eslaminokandeh

Stavroula Bagioneta, Konstantia Kontodimou and Konstantinos Kepaptsoglou

Strategic Airport Slot Allocation under Capacity Constraints: A Stackelberg Game (abstract)

PRESENTER: Stavroula Bagioneta

Tanay Deshpande and Matthias Winkenbach

A Heuristic Solution Approach for the Closed-Open Mixed VRP with Time Dependencies (abstract)

PRESENTER: Tanay Deshpande

13:30-14:15 Session P: Industry Panel

14:30-16:00 Session TC-R1: Hub and Service Network Design under Uncertainty

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Sibel A. Alumur

Location: Salon 3 (6th floor)

14:30	Bo Sun and Si Zhang Integrated Community Shuttle Service Network Design and Operations (abstract) PRESENTER: Bo Sun
15:00	Hao Li, Gita Taherkhani, Mike Hewitt and Sibel A. Alumur Demand-driven hub and service network design under uncertainty (abstract) PRESENTER: Sibel A. Alumur
15:30	Hao Li, Gita Taherkhani, Sibel A. Alumur and Mike Hewitt A Multistage Stochastic Framework for Hub and Service Network Design (abstract) PRESENTER: Hao Li

14:30-16:00 Session TC-R2: Transit Fleet Scheduling, Charging, and Speed Optimization

Electric Mobility & Sustainability

Chair:

Hai Wang

Location: Salon 4 (6th floor)

14:30	Xueyong Lu, Ran Ji, Jie Xu, Madeline Hass and Raymond Mui Optimal Scheduling and Charging of Mixed Bus Fleet via Accelerated Logic-Based Benders Decomposition (abstract) PRESENTER: Xueyong Lu
15:00	Alexandre Jacquillat, Shriya Karam, Alexandria Schmid, Kai Wang and Wei Zhang Routing optimization for high-capacity microtransit with vehicle-customer coordination (abstract) PRESENTER: Alexandria Schmid
15:30	Xueli Mao, Liujiang Kang and Hai Wang Maglev Train Speed-Profile Optimization (abstract) PRESENTER: Hai Wang

14:30-16:00 Session TC-R3: Parcel Lockers, Service Points, and Customer Choice

Last-Mile & Urban Logistics

Chair:

Annarita De Maio

Location: Salon 5 (6th floor)

14:30	Margaretha Gansterer, Tal Raviv and Elad Sadan Recipient preferences-based assignment of parcels to service points (abstract) PRESENTER: Margaretha Gansterer
15:00	Gianpaolo Ghiani, Demetrio Laganà, Emanuele Manni and Sara Stoia Dynamic Vehicle Routing in Last-Mile Delivery with Parcel Lockers under Stochastic Availability (abstract) PRESENTER: Emanuele Manni
15:30	Annarita De Maio, Demetrio Laganà, Roberto Musmanno, Jeffrey W. Ohlmann and Sara Stoia Parcel Locker Placement under Customer Choice Uncertainty (abstract) PRESENTER: Annarita De Maio

14:30-16:00 Session TC-R4: Arc Routing, Drone TSP, and Truckload Impacts

Vehicle Routing

Chair:

Casper Bazelmans

Location: Salon 6 (6th floor)

14:30	Wenjin Yan, Elena Fernández and Ivana Ljubić The Undirected Team Orienteering Arc Routing Problem: Formulations, Valid Inequalities, and Exact Algorithms (abstract) PRESENTER: Wenjin Yan
15:00	Taekang Hwang, Hadi Charkhgard and Changhyun Kwon On the Polytope of the Traveling Salesman Problem with Drone (abstract) PRESENTER: Taekang Hwang
15:30	Casper Bazelmans, Albert Schrotenboer, Gilbert Laporte and Tom Van Woensel Environmental Impact of Long-Combination Vehicles in Full-Truckload Transport Planning (abstract) PRESENTER: Casper Bazelmans

14:30-16:00 Session TC-R5: Passenger Mobility Pricing, Insurance, and Availability Control

Traffic, Demand & Network Equilibrium

Chair:

Simon Schmidbaur

Location: Salon West (7th Floor)

14:30	Philipp Hausenblas, Sebastian Spindler, Andreas Brieden and Claudius Steinhardt Bid Price Control in Passenger Transportation Networks under Degeneracy (abstract) PRESENTER: Philipp Hausenblas
15:00	Sen Yan and Daniel Vignon Usage-based Insurance and Rational Inattention in the Era of Connected Vehicles (abstract) PRESENTER: Sen Yan
15:30	Simon Schmidbaur, Matthias Soppert and Claudius Steinhardt Block Now or Relocate Later? Availability Control of Short-Term Rentals in Vehicle Sharing Systems Considering Long-Term Rental Reservations (abstract) PRESENTER: Simon Schmidbaur

14:30-16:00 Session TC-R6: Micromobility Competition, Equity, and Electrification

Shared Mobility, Micromobility & Autonomous Systems

Chair:

Ioannis Stamatopoulos

Location: Salon T (7th Floor)

14:30	Alexandre Jacquillat, Bo Lin and Sheng Liu Electrifying Bike-share Systems at Scale (abstract) PRESENTER: Bo Lin
15:00	Hale Erkan, Ioannis Stamatopoulos, Kumar Muthuraman and Ashish Agarwal Competition for customer attention could be causing oversupply in US micromobility (abstract) PRESENTER: Hale Erkan
15:30	Hale Erkan and Ioannis Stamatopoulos Equitable Micromobility Deployment Mandates Show No Benefits in the United States (abstract) PRESENTER: Ioannis Stamatopoulos

17:00-20:30 Gala Dinner

Spirit of Boston, 200 Seaport Blvd, Boston, MA 02210

Further details on the conference website.

Wednesday, July 29th

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08:00-09:30 Session WA-R1: Network Interdiction and Disruption-Resilient Design

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Forrest Miller

Location: Salon 3 (6th floor)

08:00	Gopal Saha, Guneshwar Anand, Manu Kumar Gupta and Sachin Jayaswal Two-Stage Fixed-Charge Transportation Problem: A Cutting Plane Based Solution Approach (abstract) PRESENTER: Gopal Saha
08:30	Navneet Vidyarthi and Onur Kuzgunkaya Robust Distribution Network Design under the Risk of Adversarial Disruptions (abstract) PRESENTER: Navneet Vidyarthi
09:00	Forrest Miller, Thomas Sharkey and Kayse Lee Maass Minimum Cost Flow Interdiction with Shifting Supply and Recruitment for Disrupting Human Trafficking Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Forrest Miller

08:00-09:30 Session WA-R2: Electrified Fleets, Charging Capacity, and Power Coordination

Electric Mobility & Sustainability

Chair:

Ricardo Giesen

Location: Salon 4 (6th floor)

08:00	Saif Benjaafar, Jingyuan Wan and Martin Zubeldia Electrifying the Fleet: Dimensioning Electric Vehicle Sharing Systems (abstract) PRESENTER: Jingyuan Wan
08:30	Jiajie Qiu, Kamal Youcef-Toumi, Amro Farid and Dakota Thompson Optimal Multi-Modal Transportation and Electric Power Flow: The Value of Coordinated Dynamic Operation (abstract) PRESENTER: Jiajie Qiu
09:00	Karla Cervantes-Sanmiguel, Omar Jorge Ibarra-Rojas and Ricardo Giesen A Tri-Objective Optimization Framework for Sustainable Electrification of Urban Bus Fleets (abstract) PRESENTER: Ricardo Giesen

08:00-09:30 Session WA-R3: Crowdshipping and Freight Procurement Platforms

Last-Mile & Urban Logistics

Chair:

Qingyang Li

Location: Salon 5 (6th floor)

08:00	Sara Stoia, Demetrio Laganà, Jeffrey Ohlmann and Francesca Vocaturo Dynamic Pickup-and-Delivery with In-store Crowdshippers and Lockers (abstract) PRESENTER: Sara Stoia
08:30	Ran Hu, James Bailey and Marlin Ulmer Dynamic Matching with Preference Learning in Crowdsourced Delivery Platforms (abstract) PRESENTER: Ran Hu
09:00	Qingyang Li and Fangni Zhang Auction-Based Procurement Mechanism Design for Freight-as-a-Service (FaaS) Systems (abstract) PRESENTER: Qingyang Li

08:00-09:30 Session WA-R4: Heterogeneous Fleet and Periodic Vehicle Routing

Vehicle Routing

Chair:

Jeren Konak

Location: Salon 6 (6th floor)

08:00	Harun Avci and Aysu Ozel A Vehicle Routing Formulation for Harvest Scheduling in Banana Production (abstract) PRESENTER: Harun Avci
08:30	Nicolas Kuttruff, Jan Fabian Ehmke and Stefan Minner Solving Large-Scale Heterogeneous Fleet VRPs under Different Objective Functions (abstract) PRESENTER: Nicolas Kuttruff
09:00	Jeren Konak and Alan Erera Peak Shaving Heuristic for Periodic Vehicle Routing (abstract) PRESENTER: Jeren Konak

08:00-09:30 Session WA-R5: Column Generation, Learning, and Pricing

Optimization, Learning & Stochastic Methods

Chair:

Nour Elhouda Tellache

Location: Salon West (7th Floor)

08:00	Zhengzhong You, Haoran Liu and Bo Tang L-DDOIs: Learning-based Deep Dual-Optimal Inequalities for Stabilizing Column Generation (abstract) PRESENTER: Zhengzhong You
08:30	Alexandre Jacquillat, Gal Neria and Bart van Rossum Learning to Price: Meta-RL Column Generation for Resource Allocation over Nonlinear Dynamic Systems (abstract) PRESENTER: Gal Neria
09:00	Nour Elhouda Tellache, Frédéric Meunier and Axel Parmentier Linear lexicographic optimization and preferential bidding system (abstract) PRESENTER: Nour Elhouda Tellache

08:00-09:30 Session WA-R6: Autonomous Mobility and Autonomous Trucking

Shared Mobility, Micromobility & Autonomous Systems

Chair:

Angel Perez-Vila

Location: Salon T (7th Floor)

08:00	Yali Gao and Hongyu Zheng Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Spatial Equilibrium: Congestion, Mode Choice, and Residential Location (abstract) PRESENTER: Hongyu Zheng
08:30	Antonio Coppola, Gerhard Hiermann, Michel Gendreau and Maximilian Schiffer Online Balanced and Staggered Routing in Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems (abstract) PRESENTER: Maximilian Schiffer
09:00	Angel Perez-Vila, Leonardo Lozano and Michael Fry Optimization of Autonomous Trucking for Long-Haul Freight: Cutting Costs or Cutting Jobs? (abstract) PRESENTER: Angel Perez-Vila

09:30-10:00Coffee Break

10:00-11:30 Session WB-R1: Sustainable Freight, Hydrogen, and Emissions

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Soheil Sibdari

Location: Salon 3 (6th floor)

10:00	Mohammad Reza Ghorbanali Zadegan and Zhaomiao Guo A Multi-Agent Framework for Sustainable Freight Distribution and Energy Supply (abstract) PRESENTER: Mohammad Reza Ghorbanali Zadegan
10:30	Jialu Yang, Bo Zou, Xuesong Zhou and Jane Lin Hydrogen Refueling Station Location under Demand Uncertainty: A Hybrid BD–SVD Decomposition Framework (abstract) PRESENTER: Jane Lin
11:00	Teodor Yankov, Sergio Scarcerieau and Soheil Sibdari Constructing and Mobilising an Emissions Efficiency Index for a Multi-Modal Shipping Network (abstract) PRESENTER: Soheil Sibdari

10:00-11:30 Session WB-R2: Information Relaxations and Stochastic Dynamic Programs

Optimization, Learning & Stochastic Methods

Chair:

Esther Jose

Location: Salon 4 (6th floor)

10:00	Francesco Giliberto, Rosario Paradiso and David Wozabal Optimal Information Relaxation Bounds for Multi-Stage Stochastic Optimization with Application to Logistics Problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Francesco Giliberto
10:30	Tharunkumar Amirthalingam, Zhengtao Su and Lavanya Marla Penalized Information Relaxations for Bounding and Approximating Stochastic Dynamic Programs (abstract) PRESENTER: Zhengtao Su
11:00	Esther Jose, Nastaran Oladzad, John Becker and Rajan Batta On a Generalization of the Information Collection Problem (abstract) PRESENTER: Esther Jose

10:00-11:30 Session WB-R3: Fulfillment, Parcel Sorting, and Robotic Picking

Last-Mile & Urban Logistics

Chair:

Benedict Jun Ma

Location: Salon 5 (6th floor)

10:00	Charlotte Köhler, Ann Campbell and Jan Fabian Ehmke Data-Driven Picking Time Estimation for In-Store E-Grocery Fulfilment (abstract) PRESENTER: Charlotte Köhler
10:30	Olivia Wang and Reem Khir Flexible Resource Allocation using k-Adaptable Policies (abstract) PRESENTER: Reem Khir
11:00	Benedict Jun Ma, Man Wang, Debjit Roy and Rene De Koster Hybrid Robotic Bin-Picking Systems: Operational Strategies and Performance Evaluation (abstract) PRESENTER: Benedict Jun Ma

10:00-11:30 Session WB-R4: Pickup-and-Delivery, Taxi Matching, and Time-Dependent Routing

Vehicle Routing

Chair:

Jason Luo

Location: Salon 6 (6th floor)

10:00	Guocheng Jiang and Song Gao Joint Estimation of a Semi-Markov Decision Process Model of Vacant Taxi Matching and Routing in a Large Network (abstract) PRESENTER: Guocheng Jiang
10:30	Bahman Bornay, Michel Gendreau and Bernard Gendron Generalized Route Planning and Scheduling with Time-Dependent Travel Times on Road Networks (abstract) PRESENTER: Bahman Bornay
11:00	Alexandre Jacquillat and Jason Luo An Iterative Network Flow Algorithm for Online Pickup and Delivery (abstract) PRESENTER: Jason Luo

10:00-11:30 Session WB-R5: EV Charging Markets and Grid Coordination

Electric Mobility & Sustainability

Chair:

Nandan Kumar Singh

Location: Salon West (7th Floor)

10:00	Rojan Taheri and Xinwu Qian Managing Precautionary Demand at Public Fast Charging Stations (abstract) PRESENTER: Rojan Taheri
10:30	Yi Ju, Lunlong Li, Jingchun Wang and Scott Moura Unveiling the Full Potential of Mobility-aware Coordinated EV Charging for Grid Resilience (abstract) PRESENTER: Yi Ju
11:00	Nandan Kumar Singh Emerging Electric Vehicle charging market: Analyzing the impact of firm pricing, charging speed, consumer preferences, and power tariff subsidy (abstract)

10:00-11:30 Session WB-R6: Ride-Hailing Platforms and Autonomous Mobility Services

Shared Mobility, Micromobility & Autonomous Systems

Chair:

Kai Wang

Location: Salon T (7th Floor)

10:00	Philipp Afeche, Andre Cire and Uta Mohring Ride-Hailing Networks with Strategic Drivers: The Effects of Driver Wage Policies and Network Characteristics on Performance (abstract) PRESENTER: Uta Mohring
10:30	Huiwen Jia, Xuchen Liu, Siqian Shen and Jiayu Kamessi Zhao Robotaxis as Capacity Expansion: Certification-Based Pricing and Matching (abstract) PRESENTER: Xuchen Liu
11:00	Shuiwang Chen, Kai Wang and Lingxiao Wu Service Design for Centralized Mobility-on-Demand Systems (abstract) PRESENTER: Kai Wang

11:30-12:45Lunch Break

Lunch on your own. Several options available on-site or close proximity.

12:45-13:45 Session K2: KEYNOTE II

Timothy Jacobs

Vice President of Applied AI and Machine Learning
Walmart

Location: Salon M (7th floor)

14:00-15:30 Session WC-R1: Dynamic Fleet, Shipment, and Healthcare Routing Control

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Florentin Hildebrandt

Location: Salon 3 (6th floor)

14:00	Ackva Charlotte, Marlin Ulmer and Mike Hewitt Dynamic capacity and shipment control for middle-mile operations (abstract) PRESENTER: Ackva Charlotte
14:30	Neslihan Cevik, Albert Schrotenboer and Tom van Woensel The Dynamic Multi-Objective Driver Dispatching Problem in Full Truck Load Transport (abstract) PRESENTER: Neslihan Cevik
15:00	Florentin Hildebrandt, Marlin Ulmer and Roberto Roberti Adding Precision to Speed - Stochastic Dynamic Delivery Routing with Soft Time Windows (abstract) PRESENTER: Florentin Hildebrandt

14:00-15:30 Session WC-R2: Crowdshipping, Compensation, and Workload Equity

Last-Mile & Urban Logistics

Chair:

Iman Dayarian

Location: Salon 4 (6th floor)

14:00	Sheng Liu and Junyu Cao Coordinate Scheduled and On-Demand Jobs in a Spatial Setting: A Simple Zoning and Switching Policy (abstract) PRESENTER: Sheng Liu
14:30	Alim Buğra Çınar, Claudia Archetti, Wout Dullaert, Markus Leitner and Stefan Waldherr Pricing, bundling, and compensation decisions in dynamic crowdsourced delivery problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Alim Buğra Çınar
15:00	Iman Dayarian, Hadi Charkhgard and Abhay Sobhanan Equity-Driven Workload Allocation in Crowdshipping (abstract) PRESENTER: Iman Dayarian

14:00-15:30 Session WC-R3: Machine Learning for Last-Mile Delivery

Last-Mile & Urban Logistics

Chair:

Okan Arslan

Location: Salon 5 (6th floor)

14:00	Dongyang Xia, Yousef Maknoon, Hai Wang, Niels Agatz and Shadi Sharif Azadeh Can Dynamic Restaurant Rankings Improve Delivery Efficiency? A Real-Time Optimization Framework with Courier Routing (abstract) PRESENTER: Shadi Sharif Azadeh
14:30	Ali Nalbant and Barış Yıldız A Machine Learning Approach for Marginal Fulfillment Cost Estimation in Last Mile Delivery (abstract) PRESENTER: Ali Nalbant
15:00	Taha Varol and Okan Arslan Learning Road Network Distances for Last-Mile Routing (abstract) PRESENTER: Taha Varol

14:00-15:30 Session WC-R4: Ride-Hailing Equilibrium and Queueing

Traffic, Demand & Network Equilibrium

Chair:

Xinyu Liu

Location: Salon 6 (6th floor)

14:00	Song Gao, Chiwei Yan, Hanyu Cheng and Guocheng Jiang A Markovian Traffic Equilibrium Model for Ride-Hailing (abstract) PRESENTER: Song Gao
14:30	Wei Gu, Qin Ba, Maged Dessouky and Jong-Shi Pang Generalized Traffic Equilibrium with Ride-hailing and Customer Waiting (abstract) PRESENTER: Wei Gu
15:00	Xinyu Liu, Vijay Subramanian and Yafeng Yin A Markov Queueing Perspective on Cruising Delays for Downtown Curbside Parking (abstract) PRESENTER: Xinyu Liu

14:00-15:30 Session WC-R5: EV Routing, Refueling, and Charging Network Design

Electric Mobility & Sustainability

Chair:

Omar Abbaas

Location: Salon West (7th Floor)

14:00	Mansimran Singh, Ann Campbell and Qi Luo A Principle-Agent Model for Time-Expanded HDEV Charging Network Design for Long Haul Shipping (abstract) PRESENTER: Mansimran Singh
14:30	Sean Lo and Alexandre Jacquillat Subpath-Based Column Generation for Electric Vehicle Routing Problem Variants (abstract) PRESENTER: Sean Lo
15:00	Moddassir Nayeem, Fuhad Opu, Omar Abbaas and Sara Abu-Aridah Finite Dominating Sets for the Refueling Station Location Problem in Fleet Operations (abstract) PRESENTER: Omar Abbaas

14:00-15:30 Session WC-R6: Rail, Metro, and Intermodal Port Operations

Transit, Rail, Air & Multimodal

Chair:

Wenqian Liu

Location: Salon T (7th Floor)

14:00	Chanchal Kumar Salode and Prasanna Ramamoorthy Train timetabling with rolling stock assignment, short-turning and skip-stop strategy for a bidirectional metro line (abstract) PRESENTER: Prasanna Ramamoorthy
14:30	Simin Chai, Ola Jabali, Tommaso Schettini and Jiateng Yin Optimizing metro timetabling and capacity decisions considering feeder buses (abstract) PRESENTER: Simin Chai
15:00	Wenqian Liu, Bo Lu and Zhou Xu Joint Optimization of Track Assignment and Crane Capacity Allocation for Railway Operations at Sea-Rail Intermodal Container Ports (abstract) PRESENTER: Wenqian Liu

15:30-16:00Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Session WD-R1: Discrete Network Design, Access Hubs, and Fulfillment Location

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

Chair:

Jonathan Scholz

Location: Salon 3 (6th floor)

16:00	Ramazan Çevik, Ali Şardağ and Barış Yıldız A Neural Surrogate Based Optimization Framework for Discrete Network Problems (abstract) PRESENTER: Ali Şardağ
16:30	Praveen Muthukrishnan, Walid Klibi and Benoit Montreuil Designing Scalable Access Hub Networks for Physical Internet–Enabled Hyperconnected Urban Logistics (abstract) PRESENTER: Praveen Muthukrishnan
17:00	Jonathan Scholz, Marlin Ulmer and Sebastian Sager Fulfillment Center Location Planning with Complex Assignment Constraints (abstract) PRESENTER: Jonathan Scholz

16:00-17:30 Session WD-R2: Truck Platooning and Advanced Air Mobility Operations

Transit, Rail, Air & Multimodal

Chair:

Felipe Cordera

Location: Salon 4 (6th floor)

16:00	Chenglin Zhuang, Xiaotong Sun and Ziye Guo Benefit Redistribution Mechanisms for Multi-Operator Truck Platooning in Stackelberg-Generalized Nash Game Perspective (abstract) PRESENTER: Xiaotong Sun
16:30	Zhenglei Ji, Hai Yang and Joseph Chow Distance-Based Subsidy Rate Design to Incentivize Ride-Hail Access to Advanced Air Mobility Hubs (abstract) PRESENTER: Zhenglei Ji
17:00	Felipe Cordera, Alexandre Jacquillat and Spencer McDonald Optimizing Advanced Air Mobility Operations in a Corridor Network (abstract) PRESENTER: Felipe Cordera

16:00-17:30 Session WD-R3: Buffer

Location: Salon 5 (6th floor)

16:00-17:30 Session WD-R4: Optimization and Learning for Logistics

Optimization, Learning & Stochastic Methods

Chair:

Connor Makowski

Location: Salon 6 (6th floor)

16:00	Francesca Maggioni, Mike Hewitt and Andrea Spinelli A Novel L-Shaped Refinement Chain Cuts Method for Two-Stage Stochastic Programs with application to Stochastic Network Design (abstract) PRESENTER: Francesca Maggioni
16:30	Lidiia Shchichko, Satyaveer S. Chauhan, Erick Delage and Roussos Dimitrakopoulos L2Ofor2SP: Learning-to-Optimize for Two-stage Stochastic Programs with Continuous Recourse (abstract) PRESENTER: Lidiia Shchichko
17:00	Connor Makowski, Austin Saragih, Willem Guter, Tim Russell, Arne Heinold and Spyros Lekkakos SCGraph: A Dependency-Free Python Package for Road, Rail, and Maritime Shortest Path Routing Generation and Distance Estimation (abstract) PRESENTER: Connor Makowski

16:00-17:30 Session WD-R5: Electric Truck Charging Infrastructure and Fleet Planning

Electric Mobility & Sustainability

Chair:

Lingyun Zhong

Location: Salon West (7th Floor)

16:00	Yifu Ding, Ruicheng Ao, Pablo Duenas-Martinez and Thomas Magnanti Decision-dependent Robust Charging Infrastructure Planning for Light-duty Truck Electrification at Industrial Sites (abstract) PRESENTER: Yifu Ding
16:30	Yeonu Chae, Mengshi Lu and Siqian Shen Battery Degradation-aware Planning and Operations of Shared Electric Vehicle Fleets with Robust Satisficing (abstract) PRESENTER: Yeonu Chae
17:00	Lingyun Zhong and Zhan Zhao Optimal Charging Facility Placement and Vehicle Purchase Subsidies to Promote Electric Truck Adoption (abstract) PRESENTER: Lingyun Zhong

16:00-17:30 Session WD-R6: Climate-Adaptive Transit and Multimodal Demand

Transit, Rail, Air & Multimodal

Chair:

Beste Basciftci

Location: Salon T (7th Floor)

16:00	Keren-Or Grinberg-Rosenbaum, Francisco Pereira, Bat-Hen Nahmias-Biran and Yoram Shiftan Climate-Adaptive Travel Behavior Across Urban and Interurban Systems: Insights from Israel’s Highway 2 and New York City Shared Mobility (abstract) PRESENTER: Keren-Or Grinberg-Rosenbaum
16:30	Natalie Randall, Beste Basciftci and Yiling Zhang Data-Driven Optimization for the Network Design of Multimodal Transit Systems under Travel Time and Demand Ambiguity (abstract) PRESENTER: Beste Basciftci