From 26th to 28th May 2013, we will be hosting the
1st International Workshop on Synchronisation in Transport: SynchroTrans 2013.
SynchroTrans will be a small, focused, single-stream workshop on synchronization in vehicle routing and transport: In classical VRPs, synchronization between vehicles is necessary only with respect to which vehicle visits which customer. However, there are many applications of VRPs having additional synchronization requirements with regard to spatial, temporal, and load aspects. Examples are load transfers between vehicles, trucks pulling detachable trailers, combined routing of vehicles and crews, synchronized operations of service technicians or home health care staff, synchronized routing of snowplows etc. Such types of VRPs have recently attracted more and more interest from the OR community. After our sessions on synchronization at the VeRoLog conference in Bologna and the German OR conference in Hannover, we would now like to devote a two-day workshop to the topic.
The SynchroTrans workshop will be informal in character and is intended to share the latest research on synchronization applications, models, and algorithmic approaches within the vehicle routing community.
Note that SynchroTrans is by invitation only.
Sponsors:
- GTS Systems and Consulting GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany
More Details:
The workshop venue is the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.
Mainz is a beautiful, medium-sized city in the heart of Germany with excellent public transport connection by road, rail and air (half an hour by urban train from Frankfurt airport). It is the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate and lies at the shore of the Rhine. Mainz is famous for its carnival (unfortunately, the month of May lies outside the carnival season), its wines and its delicious local food. The Rhine-Main Region is the centre of the German logistics industry, where major air, inland waterway, rail and road facilities are located. Mainz was the “City of Science” in the year 2011 and provides a stimulating environment for research in logistics and transport.
The preliminary programme is as follows:
Scientific programme committee:
- Abstract submission: 28th February 2013
- Notification of acceptance: 15th March 2013
- Registration deadline: 1st May 2013
- Workshop: 26th to 28th May 2013
Registration is closed.
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