Yanfeng Ouyang (PI for several ICT projects in safety and planning areas) was elected to serve as the vice chair of the Freight Transportation & Logistics Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Transportation Science and Logistics Society of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). The following year, he will serve as the SIG chair.
The purpose of the Transportation Science & Logistics Society (TSL) is to provide a continuing, specialized focus within INFORMS on the topics of transportation science and logistics, with the aim of identifying current and potential problems and contributions to their solutions.
Within TSL are a number of special interest groups (SIG) to promote activities within major areas of application. The SIG for freight transportation and logistics encompasses problems in trucking, rail, shipping, air cargo and all aspects of intermodal transportation. Active research spans planning and real-time control, pricing, demand management, risk analysis, and the design of information networks to support these operations.