On 10 November 2020, the article “Semi-liner shipping service design” authored by Yadong Wang and Qiang Meng (Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering) and published by one of top transportation research journals – Transportation Science in May 2020 was awarded the Freight Transportation and Logistics Outstanding Paper Award of INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society. This award is given once a year to an outstanding paper in the field of freight transportation and logistics. The criteria of this award include that a paper must have been published in a refereed journal between June 1, 2017 and May 31, 2020 and must present innovative approaches for solving complex problems in transportation and/or logistics, with an emphasis on operations research and quantitative methods. This award is very competitive and is selected from tens of papers published in high impact journals such as Transportation Science, Operations Research, and Management Science etc. It is noted that Dr. Yadong Wang is Prof. Meng’s formal PhD student and graduated from NUS in 2017.
The INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics (TSL) Society (https://connect.informs.org/tsl/home) provides INFORMS members and friends with a sustained, specialised focus on all topics of transportation science and logistics, including current and potential problems and contributions to their solution, and supports efforts to extend, unify, and integrate related branches of knowledge and practice. The Society was formed in 2004 with the merger of the Transportation Science and Logistics Sections. Currently, TSL includes about 1,000 members and five special interest groups: Air Transportation, Freight Transportation and Logistics, Urban Transportation Planning and Modeling, Facility Logistics, and Intelligent Transportation Systems.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS, https://www.informs.org/) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (OR) and management science (MS). With over 12,500 members from around the globe, INFORMS is the leading international association for professionals in operations research and analytics. INFORMS promotes best practices and advances in operations research, management science, and analytics to improve operational processes, decision-making, and outcomes through an array of highly-cited publications, conferences, competitions, networking communities, and professional development services.
