The 11th INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop (TSL 2024) focuses on optimizing transportation and logistics under uncertainty. It took place at the Lab of Digital Sciences of Nantes (LS2N), IMT Atlantique from 25-27 September 2024.

The workshop was motivated by the emerging demand for algorithms that can deal with uncertainty by decision makers who face variable transit times, volatile demand volumes, and fluctuating resource availability. 

Nicolas Kuttruff presented his research project “Solving Multiperiod Vehicle Routing Problems with Minimum Utilization Constraints and Demand Uncertainty“, co-authored by Christoph Kerscher and Stefan Minner. The presentation focused on how incorporating a minimum load utilization requirement for each vehicle in a VRP framework substantially reduces the number of delivery tours and explored efficient ways to solve the problem, even with limited information about future demands.

Christoph Kerscher talked about his research project "Explorable Uncertainty in Stochastic Vehicle Routing with Time Windows", co-authored by Caroline Spieckermann and Stefan Minner. In this project, they analyze the impact of querying current travel times to reduce the uncertainty in vehicle routing problems, and the resulting trade-off between query costs and solution quality.