Information and communication technologies (ICT) nowadays enable users to access, store, transmit, and manipulate information. The technological developments are creating new challenges and opportunities to Operations Research. A systemic approach to problems and advanced mathematical methods are even more vital than in the past.
In this talk research trends in transportation and supply chain management will be discussed and some examples presented. In particular, integrated problems in supply chain management and logistics will be discussed that are aimed at optimizing the system behavior. Location routing problems, loading and routing problems, multi-echelon routing problems, inventory routing problems can reduce the costs substantially with respect to the sequential solution of the sub-problems. Collaboration has been enhanced by advances in ICT that have enabled information sharing, for example among carriers. In a centralized collaboration scheme, a central decision maker can redistribute customers and/or logistic assets among carriers. This decision maker may be a third party who acts in a non-partisan way or may be a large carrier that resorts to other carriers to manage all its orders and customers. Collaboration schemes will be discussed together with their benefits. Some research directions will be discussed also in the field of passenger transportation. Models for the coordination of individual route guidance systems will be, in particular, discussed.
Venue: Z 536 (City Campus)
Date: Monday, January 217th, 2019, 14:00