Business Meeting PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 1, 2015
Outline RAS Problem Solving Competition Award (10 minutes) RAS Student Paper Award (5 minutes) 2015 Activity Report (10 minutes) Election and Incoming Officers (5 minutes) RAS Distinguished Member Award (15 minutes) Additional Items and Open Discussions (15 minutes) RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Problem Solving Competition Track geo eometry analy lytics Cha Chair – Francesco Corman, Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands) Ge General supp support & Org Organizatio ion Pro roblem Ow Owners Jeremiah Dirnberger, CSX April Kuo, BNSF Sandra Eksisoglu, Clemson Yanhong Wang, BNSF Jud Judging Panel Behnam Behdani, BNSF Mengqi Hu, ,Mississippi State University Tyler Dick, RailTEC, UIUC Jin Mingzhou University of Tennessee Knoxville Krystel Castillo, University of Texas at San Aihong Weng, CSX Transportation Antonio Chip Kraft, TEMS Inc. Steven Harrod, Technical University of Denmark Edward Lin, Norfolk Southern Railway Krishna Jha, OPTYM Kamalesh Somani, CSX Transportation Linkan Bian, Mississippi State University RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Honorable Mentions Tunisian Team/VNP: Souhir Elleuc, Bassem Jarboui, Nenad Mladenovic Sfax university, Tunisia and Valenciennes, France RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Problem Solving Competition Winners 1 st Place : Team “IRA Group” Negin Alemazkoor, Conrad Ruppert, Hadi Meidani University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US 2 nd Place : “ Uniandes Team of Stochastic Optimization - UTSO” Iván Cárdenas Gallo, Carlos Sarmiento Cardona, Gilberto Morales Zamora; Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia 3 rd Place : Team “TCS Explorers” Sadir Kumar Sinha, Sumit Raut, Harshad Kadilkar Tata Consultancy Services, India RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Student Paper Award RAS sponsored the Student Paper Award Research Paper on analytics and fact-based decision making in railway applications with a total cash award of $1,750 A total of eight papers were submitted for the competition RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Student Paper Award – Reviewing Panel Anant Balakrishnan, University of Texas at Austin David Hunt, Oliver Wyman Shrikant Jarugumilli, BNSF Railway Edward Lin, Norfolk Southern Railway Gaohao Luo, Norfolk Southern Railway Shantih Spanton, CSX Transportation Kamalesh Somani, CSX Transportation Yiqiang Su, BNSF Railway Yu Wang, CSX Transportation Kuilin Zhang, Michigan Tech university Xin Zhang, Norfolk Southern Railway Chair: April Kuo, BNSF Railway RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Student Paper Award - Winners Fir irst Priz rize ($ ($1000) Nikola Bešinović , Department of Transport and Planning, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands “A novel two - stage approach to robust periodic timetabling.” Sec econd Priz rize ($ ($500) Joris C. Wagenarr, Erasmus University, The Netherlands “Solving the depot problem.” Thir ird Priz rize ($ ($250) Shuguang Zhan, School of Transportation & Logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University,Chengdu, China “ Rea eal-time high igh spee eed tr train res escheduli ling in in case e of of a part rtia ial seg egment bloc lockage railways .” RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Major Activities (1/2) RAS officers have used INFORMS connect and social media to maintain communication with RAS members. RAS has a large social media presence (LinkedIn: 550+ and Facebook: 50+ Members). RAS organized a total of 13 sessions for the annual INFORMS conference. The 2015 Student Paper and Problem Solving Competitions were very well represented. We are grateful to our sponsors for their continuous sponsorship of RAS activities. RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Many Thanks to … Our r Sp Sponsors RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Major Activities (2/2) RAS officers prepared the midyear and annual RAS newsletters. Successful elections of the 2016 RAS officers. RAS Networking Dinner to follow the business meeting. 2015 RAS Distinguished Member Award. RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Special Thanks to RAS Officers and Volunteers Kevin Crook (Vice-chair) Xuesong Zhou (Vice-chair) Mingzhou Jin (Secretary) Alper Uygur (Treasurer) Xiaopeng Li (PR Officer) Jeremiah Dirnberger (Cluster Chair) Francesco Corman (Problem Solving Competition) April Kuo (Student Paper Competition, Competition Problem Co-Owner) Yanhong Wang (Competition Problem Co-Owner) Erick Wikum (Roundtable) Licheng Zhang (Web master) Tracy Cahall & Michael Rosenberg (INFORMS Representative) Sandra D. Eksioglu (Chair) RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Financial Updates (1/2) As of: 9/30/2015 Beginning Balance $11,519.00 Membership Dues $1,550.00 Sponsorship $8,000.00 Interest Revenues $117.87 Annual Meeting Expenses ($5,500.00) Miscellaneous Expenses ($130.44) Awards ($5,500.00) Net ($1,462.57) Ending Balance $10,056.43 RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Financial Updates (2/2) RAS Financial Statement 2011-2015 20,000 15,000 10,000 2011 2012 5,000 2013 2014 2015 (Est) 0 Membership Dues Sponsorships Interest Revenue Annual Meeting Misc Exp. Awards Net Ending Balance Expense -5,000 -10,000 RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
2015 RAS Membership Fee Regular INFORMS Member - $15/- Regular INFORMS Non-member - $25/- Student INFORMS Member - $5/- Student INFORMS Non-member - $10/- RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
2015 RAS Membership Membership: Membership: Membership: Africa 1 Academic 38 Community 1 Asia 6 Business 44 Regular 79 Australia 3 Consulting 11 Retired 2 Canada 2 Government 4 RNDTBL 1 Europe 17 South America 1 Other 2 Student 16 USA 69 Total 99 Total 99 Total 99 RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Incoming Officers Chai air: Xuesong Zhou , Arizona State University Tenure: Vic ice Chair air: April Kuo, BNSF Railway Jan 1 st st to 31 st st , 20 Jan o De Dec 31 2016 16 Treasu surer: Gunnar Feldmann, Norfolk Southern Railway Secretary: Shantih Spanton, CSX Transportation PR R Officer: Tyler Dick, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
2015 RAS Distinguished Member Award RAS Distinguished Member Award is given to recognize an individual who Has made contributions with far reaching impact for RAS Has given RAS a new direction and continues to inspire others to follow their footsteps Dr. Clark Cheng RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Additional Items Volunteers for the 2016 INFORMS Officers Cluster chair Problem solving Student paper competition Roundtable Web master INFORMS International Meeting will be held in Hawaii on June 12-15, 2016 Ideas on 2016 problem competition Identify a topic of interest based on RAS sessions Adapt ongoing project from industry – analytics, etc. RAS Business Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Problem Solving Competition in 2016 Topic: Integrated optimization of Infrastructure Maintenance and Train Services Toy example Line_2 2 Lines up up dow n 17 18 36 nodes (relevant points) 2 3 10 11 16 19 24 27 30 31 34 35 40 links up up Line_1 Line_1 2 Maintenance of Way dow n dow n 4 5 8 9 14 15 20 23 26 37 25 36 4 Trains to be scheduled 21 22 up dow n dow n Line_2 Station_a
Problem Solving Competition in 2016 Topic: Integrated Optimization of Infrastructure Maintenance and Train Services Objective function would be Or Minimize total maintenance cost Minimize total train travel cost Major constraints should include but not limited to : Train specific constraints: min section running time min and max station dwell time predetermined departure time Capacity constraints: infrastructure constraints maintenance related speed slowing down constraints Maintenance tasks: maintenance location, duration, frequency etc...
Problem Solving Competition in 2016 Topic: Integrated Optimization of Infrastructure Maintenance and Train Services An example solution: Line_1 Line_1 up dow n 17 18 space 4 5 8 9 14 15 20 23 25 26 36 37 time 2 3 10 11 16 19 24 27 30 30 31 34 35 21 22 Train_2 Train_1 0 0 0 2 3 1 4 2 5 5 Train_4 3 6 6 5 4 7 6 7 8 8 9 11 10 13 15 20 25 Train_3 MOW_1u 29 30 31 35 33 35 37 39 40 41 40 39 42 43 40 41 44 42 45 45 50 Li ne_2 up 17 18 Line_2 10 11 16 19 24 27 dow n 30 31 space time 8 9 14 15 20 23 25 26 21 22 Train_4 0 2 3 2 3 4 5 5 5 3 6 5 6 4 4 7 7 Train_2 8 8 6 9 9 11 11 10 13 15 17 15 20 25 MOW_2u Train_3 30 35 33 35 37 39 40 40 39 41 Train_1 40 41 42 43 45 44 50
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