TSL CONFERENCE 2026: INFORMS TSL SOCIETY CONFERENCE 2026
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

08:00
Case-Pack Allocation for E-Commerce Retailers (abstract)
PRESENTER: Myungeun Eom
08:30
The Fulfillment Regionalization Problem (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nidhima Grover
09:00
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

08:00
Multi-stage Stochastic Optimizing and Reinforcement Learning Approaches for Dynamic Inspection of Infrastructure Systems (abstract)
08:30
Dynamic Truck Scheduling Using Estimated Times of Arrival (abstract)
PRESENTER: Justin Goodson
09:00
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:
08:00
Intra-City Express Delivery Service Network Design (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tirui Cao
08:30
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

08:00
Consistent Home Healthcare Routing with Patient Fluctuation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Marlin Ulmer
08:30
Routing Optimization for Field Artillery Units with Scheduling Considerations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hyungjoo Cha
09:00
Contextual Combinatorial Bandit for Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Profits (abstract)
08:00-09:30 Session MA-R5: Bus Networks, Network Design Games, and Network Efficiency

Traffic, Demand & Network Equilibrium

Chair:
08:00
Redesigning Bus Networks at Scale (abstract)
08:30
Co-Investment with Payoff-Sharing Mechanism for Cooperative Decision-Making in Network Design Games (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mingjia He
09:00
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

08:00
Data-driven Optimization of Aircraft Sequencing and Descent Trajectories for Fuel Efficiency in the Terminal Manoeuvring Area (abstract)
08:30
Optimal Schedules for Information Collection in Airspace Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xiyitao Zhu
09:00
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

10:00
Delay-Adaptive Expediting for Resilient and Sustainable Freight Transport Corridors (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hannah Yee
10:30
Exact Algorithms for Shipment Consolidation Problems with Various Nonlinear Cost Structures (abstract)
PRESENTER: Bipan Zou
11:00
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

10:00
Multimodal Mass Evacuation: Formulations, Decomposition Algorithms and An Application to Metro Disruption (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hongzheng Shi
10:30
A Bilevel Optimization Framework for Incentive-Guided Profitable Tour Problem toward Equitable Food Accessibility (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jihye Na
11:00
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

10:00
Spin the Bottle Bill: Deposit-Refund System Policy and Reverse Supply Chain Design (abstract)
PRESENTER: Austin Saragih
10:30
Outbound Shipping Decisions in Two-Echelon Reverse Logistics Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sheetal
11:00
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:
10:00
An Exact Price-and-Enumerate Algorithm for Vehicle Routing Problem with Speed Optimization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ying Yang
10:30
Exact Bucket-Based Column Generation for Nested Path Problems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Bart van Rossum
11:00
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

10:00
Dynamic Demand Management for Probabilistic Out-of-Home Delivery Options (abstract)
PRESENTER: Daniela Sailer
10:30
Dynamic Fleet Management with Endogenous Demand Growth in On-Demand Delivery: A Reinforcement Learning Approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xinwei Chen
11:00
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

10:00
Vehicle scheduling in modularized transit networks for passenger-freight co-modal operations with end-to-end freight logistics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yahan Lu
10:30
Rural School Bus Routing and Scheduling (abstract)
PRESENTER: Prabhat Hegde
11:00
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
14:00-15:30 Session MC-R1: Middle-Mile Freight Network Design

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

14:00
Electrifying middle-mile freight networks under shipper emissions sensitivity (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gita Taherkhani
14:30
Towards a Decentralized Approach for Collaborative Service Network Design (abstract)
15:00
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:
14:00
Joint Area Clearing and Path Planning for Military and Humanitarian Logistics Applications (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xiaofeng Nie
14:30
A Predict-Then-Optimize Framework for Data-Driven Decision Making in Commercial-Humanitarian Airlift Operations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Micah Borrero
15:00
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

14:00
Time Window Assortment Design with Stochastic Demand: The Value of Overlapping Time Windows (abstract)
14:30
Valuing Real-Time Digital Monitoring for On-Time Operational Performance (abstract)
15:00
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:
14:00
Choice-based periodic vehicle routing and pricing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chenghua Yang
14:30
Two-stage stochastic programming for VRP with vehicle breakdown (abstract)
PRESENTER: Bilge Atasoy
15:00
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

14:00
Dynamic Information Design in Routing Games with Learning Agents (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hanzhang Wang
14:30
Credit vs. Discount-Based Congestion Pricing: A Comparison Study (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chih-Yuan Chiu
15:00
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:
14:00
Optimizing Shared Micromobility Service Network Design (abstract)
PRESENTER: Pushpendra Singh
14:30
Routing in Line Networks with Handling Times (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gabriel Deza
15:30-16:00Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Session MD-R1: Parcel Service Network Design and Capacity Pooling

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

16:00
Commodity Aggregation-Based Relaxation Techniques for Large Scale Instances of the Scheduled Service Network Design Problem (abstract)
PRESENTER: Louis Bonnet
16:30
Robust Outbound Load Planning with Volume Splitting for Parcel Carriers (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ritesh Ojha
17:00
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

16:00
Bi-Level Route Optimization and Path Planning with Hazard Exploration (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jimin Choi
16:30
Generative AI–Assisted Decision Support for Optimal Shelter Allocation during Floods (abstract)
PRESENTER: William Zhang
17:00
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

16:00
Parking-Aware Routing for Last-Mile Delivery (abstract)
PRESENTER: Farima Salamian
16:30
Preemptive Depot Returns for Same-Day Delivery with Parking (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sara Reed
17:00
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

16:00
A Comparison of Dantzig-Wolfe and Arc-Flow Reformulations with Application to Vehicle Routing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Daniel Yamin
16:30
Approximate Constraint Reasoning in Neural Policies for the TSP with Time Windows (abstract)
PRESENTER: Macarena Navarro
17:00
Neural Embedded Mixed-Integer Optimization for Location-Routing Problems (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session MD-R5: Traffic Control, Curb Management, and Road Safety

Traffic, Demand & Network Equilibrium

16:00
Climate-Adaptive Travel Behavior Across Urban and Interurban Systems: Insights from Israel’s Highway 2 and New York City Shared Mobility (abstract)
16:30
Law Enforcement in Curb Space Management: A Game-Theoretic and Optimization-Based Analysis of Operator, User, and Regulator Interactions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jisoon Lim
17:00
Targeted alerts to improve road safety (abstract)
16:00-17:30 Session MD-R6: Ride-Hailing Matching, Pricing, and Ride-Pooling

Shared Mobility, Micromobility & Autonomous Systems

16:00
Learning Competition Status with Small Samples in Ride-Hailing Platforms (abstract)
PRESENTER: Arthur Delarue
16:30
On the Linear Programming Model for Dynamic Stochastic Matching and Its Application to Pricing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chiwei Yan
17:00
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

08:00
Locomotive Assignment under Schedule Uncertainty (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yunji Kim
08:30
Risk-averse planning for multi-stakeholder freight transportation systems: integrating strategic resource allocation and service network design (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mojtaba Hosseini
09:00
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

08:00
Rider Strategic Behavior in Ride-Sharing Platforms (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jay Mulay
08:30
Balancing Operational and Tactical Objectives in Dynamic Bike-Sharing Maintenance (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jonas Stein
08:00-09:30 Session TA-R3: On-Demand and Meal Delivery Dispatch

Last-Mile & Urban Logistics

08:00
Dispatch or Hold? An Inverse Optimization and Reinforcement Learning Approach for Multi-Objective On-Demand Delivery (abstract)
PRESENTER: Long He
08:30
Mixed-Type Courier Dispatching and Pricing for Online Food Delivery Platforms (abstract)
PRESENTER: Junlin Chen
09:00
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

08:00
{Learning-based Assignment of Drivers to Customers in Delivery Operations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Christian Truden
08:30
Using Randomized Heuristics, Regression, and Machine Learning to Estimate the Close Enough TSP Optimal Tour Length (abstract)
08:00-09:30 Session TA-R5: Stochastic User Equilibrium and Network Uncertainty

Traffic, Demand & Network Equilibrium

08:00
Risk-Averse Stochastic User Equilibrium on Uncertain Transportation Networks (abstract)
08:30
A Gibbs Posterior View of User Equilibrium: Temperature Scaling of Uncertainty (abstract)
PRESENTER: Menglin Kong
09:00
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

08:00
The potential of cargo-hitching (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mike Hewitt
08:30
Integrating qualitative data into demand estimation for transit service design (abstract)
PRESENTER: Shriya Karam
09:00
Data-Driven Optimization for the Network Design of Multimodal Transit Systems under Travel Time and Demand Ambiguity (abstract)
PRESENTER: Beste Basciftci
09:30-10:00Coffee Break
10:00-11:30 Session TB-R1: Dynamic Discretization for Service Network Design

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

10:00
Dynamic Discretization for Multi-Modal Fleet Coordination in Expeditionary Logistics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mathieu Dahan
10:30
Dynamic Discretization Discovery for Time-Expanded Network Design with Time Windows (abstract)
PRESENTER: Weiqing Xu
11:00
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

10:00
Understanding Participation of Competing Firms in Supply Chain Information Sharing under Disruptions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Batuhan Celik
10:30
Improving supply chain network resilience: A framework for diagnosing vulnerabilities in e-commerce distribution networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chelsey Graham
11:00
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

10:00
A Newsvendor Model for Last-Mile Fleet Sizing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Benjamín Rojas
10:30
Strategic design of collection and delivery point networks for urban parcel distribution (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mathias Klapp
11:00
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

10:00
Unsupervised Learning for the Elementary Shortest Path Problem (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xinwu Qian
10:30
Graph Transformers on Augmented Graphs for Scalable Rounded Capacity Cut Separation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Haoran Liu
11:00
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

10:00
Perturbed utility Markovian traffic assignment (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rui Yao
10:30
Stochastic Shockwave Dynamics in First-Order Traffic Flow Models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yanlin Zhang
11:00
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:
10:00
A Temporal–Spatial Airport Passenger Flow Modeling Framework (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sohyeong Kim
10:30
Airport Capacity Expansion Under Demand Uncertainty and Present-Biased Decisions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ziyue Li
11:00
Fleet Assignment and Timetabling with Passenger Choice Model: Volumetric Adaptive Network Tailoring Approach via Guided Exploration (abstract)
PRESENTER: Keji Wei
11:30-13:20Lunch (provided) + Posters Presentations

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

11:30-13:20 Session Posters: Displays will be up only from 11am to 3pm.

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

Please make sure that your printed poster final size is not bigger than 24"x36". Easels will be provided.

Transition to electric buses in feeder lines in Quito - Ecuador: An integer programming model (abstract)
PRESENTER: Estéfano Viteri
Optimal Taxes and Subsidies for Sustainable City Logistics: A Multi-Agency Bilevel Game-Theoretic Framework (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mingye Luan
39: Optimal Agricultural Drone Deployment and Routing with Weather-Aware Planning (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ethan Kolby
50: Integrated Dynamic Optimization of Shared E-Scooter Systems: Real-Time Battery-Aware Repositioning and Rider Incentive System (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ehsan Poorvahedi
57: Cooperation and Competition in Multimodal Transportation Incentive Programs: A Tri-level Game-Theoretic Optimization Approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jason Lu
Base Loop: Fleet Deployment for On-Demand CAV Services Verified via Queuing Models (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hiroyuki Hasada
Fast Barge, Smart Prices: Deep RL for Mississippi Container Service Feasibility (abstract)
83: Stochastic Control of EV Charging with Priority Classes and Power-Adaptive Mode Switching (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rashika Gupta
91: "Yeraz" Electric Transit Optimizer (abstract)
108: Optimizing Real-time Freight Bundling via Deep Learning--Accelerated Heuristics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Haohui Zhang
A branch-and-price approach for optimizing all-electric ships scheduling in waterborne transport (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xizi Qiao
SVBRD-LLM: Self-Verifying Behavioral Rule Discovery for Autonomous Vehicle Identification (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xiangyu Li
Strategic Deployment of Onboard Carbon Capture to Green the Maritime Supply Chain (abstract)
147: Understanding the Long Tail Effect: A Multi-Scenario Spatiotemporal Analysis of Small-Scale OD Trips on Urban Rail Flow Distribution (abstract)
PRESENTER: Changyue Xu
163: Machine Learning for Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ari Prezerowitz
168: Growth Planning in Emerging Agricultural Supply Chains: Demand Scaling and Warehouse Opening Thresholds (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kazhal Gharibi
Inverse Optimal Transport for Bottleneck Models: Estimating Temporal Travel Demand Distributions (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yasunari Hikima
176: Geofenced Demand-Responsive Transit: Autonomous Vehicle Fleet Sizing and District Design Under Spatial Demand Uncertainty (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yidi Miao
189: Dynamic network traffic signal optimization via data-driven link dynamics model (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zhixian Tang
Cooperative bargaining for integrated passenger-freight transport systems with modular autonomous vehicles (MAVs) (abstract)
PRESENTER: Patrick Stokkink
202: When Altruism Meets Autonomy: Managing Bottleneck Congestion with Strategic Autonomous Vehicles (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ruolin Li
209: Time constraint–driven bundling and matching with network effect in on-demand delivery (abstract)
PRESENTER: Kaihang Zhang
219: Machine‑Learning‑Assisted Heuristics for Hub Selection in LTL Freight Networks (abstract)
232: From Auction to Delivery: Fast Resource Exchange and Collaborative Routing with SWAP-and-Route (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yasutora Ito
Interpretable Traffic Time Series Imputation via Hankel Lifting and Robust Regularization (abstract)
PRESENTER: Chonghe Jiang
Multi-Objective Column Generation for Solving the combined Airport Declared Capacity and Slot Allocation Problem (abstract)
GMNS: A Global Open Network Standard for Transportation Science and Logistics (abstract)
PRESENTER: Henan Zhu
266: Cooperative dispatch of mobile charging trucks during mass evacuation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rui Ma
279: Expected Optimal Distances of Random Bipartite Matching in D-dimensional Spaces (abstract)
PRESENTER: Shiyu Shen
289: A mixture ensemble learning method for ship selection in maritime transportation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yanxia Guan
309: Analyzing Adaptive Platform Worker Interactions in the Gig Economy Using Agent-Based Modeling (abstract)
311: Strategic Airport Slot Allocation under Capacity Constraints: A Stackelberg Game (abstract)
49: A Heuristic Solution Approach for the Closed-Open Mixed VRP with Time Dependencies (abstract)
PRESENTER: Tanay Deshpande
14:30-16:00 Session TC-R1: Hub and Service Network Design under Uncertainty

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

14:30
Integrated Community Shuttle Service Network Design and Operations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Bo Sun
15:00
Demand-driven hub and service network design under uncertainty (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sibel A. Alumur
15:30
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:
14:30
Optimal Scheduling and Charging of Mixed Bus Fleet via Accelerated Logic-Based Benders Decomposition (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xueyong Lu
15:00
Routing optimization for high-capacity microtransit with vehicle-customer coordination (abstract)
15:30
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

14:30
Recipient preferences-based assignment of parcels to service points (abstract)
15:00
Dynamic Vehicle Routing in Last-Mile Delivery with Parcel Lockers under Stochastic Availability (abstract)
PRESENTER: Emanuele Manni
15:30
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

14:30
The Undirected Team Orienteering Arc Routing Problem: Formulations, Valid Inequalities, and Exact Algorithms (abstract)
PRESENTER: Wenjin Yan
15:00
On the Polytope of the Traveling Salesman Problem with Drone (abstract)
PRESENTER: Taekang Hwang
15:30
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

14:30
Bid Price Control in Passenger Transportation Networks under Degeneracy (abstract)
15:00
Usage-based Insurance and Rational Inattention in the Era of Connected Vehicles (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sen Yan
15:30
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

14:30
Electrifying Bike-share Systems at Scale (abstract)
PRESENTER: Bo Lin
15:00
Competition for customer attention could be causing oversupply in US micromobility (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hale Erkan
15:30
Equitable Micromobility Deployment Mandates Show No Benefits in the United States (abstract)
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

08:00
Two-Stage Fixed-Charge Transportation Problem: A Cutting Plane Based Solution Approach (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gopal Saha
08:30
Robust Distribution Network Design under the Risk of Adversarial Disruptions (abstract)
09:00
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

08:00
Electrifying the Fleet: Dimensioning Electric Vehicle Sharing Systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jingyuan Wan
08:30
Optimal Multi-Modal Transportation and Electric Power Flow: The Value of Coordinated Dynamic Operation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jiajie Qiu
09:00
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

08:00
Dynamic Pickup-and-Delivery with In-store Crowdshippers and Lockers (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sara Stoia
08:30
Dynamic Matching with Preference Learning in Crowdsourced Delivery Platforms (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ran Hu
09:00
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

08:00
A Vehicle Routing Formulation for Harvest Scheduling in Banana Production (abstract)
PRESENTER: Harun Avci
08:30
Heterogeneous Fleet Routing under Environmental Budget Constraints (abstract)
PRESENTER: Nicolas Kuttruff
09:00
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

08:00
L-DDOIs: Learning-based Deep Dual-Optimal Inequalities for Stabilizing Column Generation (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zhengzhong You
08:30
Learning to Price: Meta-RL Column Generation for Resource Allocation over Nonlinear Dynamic Systems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Gal Neria
09:00
Linear lexicographic optimization and preferential bidding system (abstract)
08:00-09:30 Session WA-R6: Autonomous Mobility and Autonomous Trucking

Shared Mobility, Micromobility & Autonomous Systems

08:00
Autonomous Vehicles in Urban Spatial Equilibrium: Congestion, Mode Choice, and Residential Location (abstract)
PRESENTER: Hongyu Zheng
08:30
Online Balanced and Staggered Routing in Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems (abstract)
09:00
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

10:00
A Multi-Agent Framework for Sustainable Freight Distribution and Energy Supply (abstract)
10:30
Hydrogen Refueling Station Location under Demand Uncertainty: A Hybrid BD–SVD Decomposition Framework (abstract)
PRESENTER: Jane Lin
11:00
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

10:00
Optimal Information Relaxation Bounds for Multi-Stage Stochastic Optimization with Application to Logistics Problems (abstract)
10:30
Penalized Information Relaxations for Bounding and Approximating Stochastic Dynamic Programs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zhengtao Su
11:00
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

10:00
Data-Driven Picking Time Estimation for In-Store E-Grocery Fulfilment (abstract)
10:30
Flexible Resource Allocation using k-Adaptable Policies (abstract)
PRESENTER: Reem Khir
11:00
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:
10:00
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
Generalized Route Planning and Scheduling with Time-Dependent Travel Times on Road Networks (abstract)
PRESENTER: Bahman Bornay
11:00
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

10:00
Managing Precautionary Demand at Public Fast Charging Stations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Rojan Taheri
10:30
Unveiling the Full Potential of Mobility-aware Coordinated EV Charging for Grid Resilience (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yi Ju
11:00
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:
10:00
Ride-Hailing Networks with Strategic Drivers: The Effects of Driver Wage Policies and Network Characteristics on Performance (abstract)
PRESENTER: Uta Mohring
10:30
Robotaxis as Capacity Expansion: Certification-Based Pricing and Matching (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xuchen Liu
11:00
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
14:00-15:30 Session WC-R1: Dynamic Fleet, Shipment, and Healthcare Routing Control

Service Network, Freight & Supply Chain

14:00
Dynamic capacity and shipment control for middle-mile operations (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ackva Charlotte
14:30
The Dynamic Multi-Objective Driver Dispatching Problem in Full Truck Load Transport (abstract)
PRESENTER: Neslihan Cevik
15:00
Adding Precision to Speed - Stochastic Dynamic Delivery Routing with Soft Time Windows (abstract)
14:00-15:30 Session WC-R2: Crowdshipping, Compensation, and Workload Equity

Last-Mile & Urban Logistics

14:00
Coordinate Scheduled and On-Demand Jobs in a Spatial Setting: A Simple Zoning and Switching Policy (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sheng Liu
14:30
Pricing, bundling, and compensation decisions in dynamic crowdsourced delivery problems (abstract)
15:00
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

14:00
Can Dynamic Restaurant Rankings Improve Delivery Efficiency? A Real-Time Optimization Framework with Courier Routing (abstract)
14:30
A Machine Learning Approach for Marginal Fulfillment Cost Estimation in Last Mile Delivery (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ali Nalbant
15:00
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:
14:00
A Markovian Traffic Equilibrium Model for Ride-Hailing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Song Gao
14:30
Generalized Traffic Equilibrium with Ride-hailing and Customer Waiting (abstract)
PRESENTER: Wei Gu
15:00
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

14:00
A Principle-Agent Model for Time-Expanded HDEV Charging Network Design for Long Haul Shipping (abstract)
PRESENTER: Mansimran Singh
14:30
Subpath-Based Column Generation for Electric Vehicle Routing Problem Variants (abstract)
PRESENTER: Sean Lo
15:00
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:
14:00
Train timetabling with rolling stock assignment, short-turning and skip-stop strategy for a bidirectional metro line (abstract)
14:30
Optimizing metro timetabling and capacity decisions considering feeder buses (abstract)
PRESENTER: Simin Chai
15:00
Joint Optimization of Track Assignment and Crane Capacity Allocation for Railway Operations at Sea-Rail Intermodal Container Ports (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zhou Xu
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

16:00
A Neural Surrogate Based Optimization Framework for Discrete Network Problems (abstract)
PRESENTER: Ali Şardağ
16:30
Designing Scalable Access Hub Networks for Physical Internet–Enabled Hyperconnected Urban Logistics (abstract)
17:00
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

16:00
Benefit Redistribution Mechanisms for Multi-Operator Truck Platooning in Stackelberg-Generalized Nash Game Perspective (abstract)
PRESENTER: Xiaotong Sun
16:30
Distance-Based Subsidy Rate Design to Incentivize Ride-Hail Access to Advanced Air Mobility Hubs (abstract)
PRESENTER: Zhenglei Ji
17:00
Optimizing Advanced Air Mobility Operations in a Corridor Network (abstract)
PRESENTER: Felipe Cordera
16:00-17:30 Session WD-R4: Optimization and Learning for Logistics

Optimization, Learning & Stochastic Methods

16:00
A Novel L-Shaped Refinement Chain Cuts Method for Two-Stage Stochastic Programs with application to Stochastic Network Design (abstract)
16:30
L2Ofor2SP: Learning-to-Optimize for Two-stage Stochastic Programs with Continuous Recourse (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lidiia Shchichko
17:00
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

16:00
Decision-dependent Robust Charging Infrastructure Planning for Light-duty Truck Electrification at Industrial Sites (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yifu Ding
16:30
Battery Degradation-aware Planning and Operations of Shared Electric Vehicle Fleets with Robust Satisficing (abstract)
PRESENTER: Yeonu Chae
17:00
Optimal Charging Facility Placement and Vehicle Purchase Subsidies to Promote Electric Truck Adoption (abstract)
PRESENTER: Lingyun Zhong