Special issue on “Transportation and Logistics with Autonomous Technologies”

• Author: Teodor G. Crainic,Debjit Roy,Stein W. Wallace,Mario Guajardo
• Published date: 01 September 2019
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/itor.12655
• Date: 01 September 2019

Intl. Trans. in Op. Res. 26 (2019) 2071

DOI: 10.1111/itor.12655

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Call for Papers

Special issue on “Transportation and Logistics with

Autonomous Technologies”

Mario Guajardoa, Teodor G. Crainicb, Debjit Roycand Stein W. Wallacea

aNHH Norwegian School of Economics, Norway

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cIndian Institute of Management, India

The development of autonomous technologies, such as self-driving cars and unmanned vessels, is

progressing at a fast pace. While design and safety concerns have been the focus of debate around

these new technologies, recent research is also concerned about their implications in transport

operations and logistics. This special issue welcomes articles on transportation and logistics with

autonomous technologies, covering a broad range of aspects such as transportation of goods

and passengers, distribution networks, material handling, and warehousing. The call is open to

autonomous technologies in a broad sense, including fully autonomous and partially autonomous

systems. Thus, for example, operations with unmanned vehicles remotely controlled, management

of fleets mixing both autonomous and non-autonomous vehicles, and coordination between robots

and human workers in warehouses are also relevant.

Contributions on both methodology and practice of operationsresearch in connection with trans-

portation and logistics with autonomous technologies are equally welcomed, including analytical

methods and models for decision-making problems, and their application.

The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2019.

Papers will be peer-reviewed according to the editorial policy of the International Transactions in

Operational Research (ITOR), published by the International Federation of Operational Research

Societies (IFORS). They should be original, unpublished, and not currently under considera-

tion for publication elsewhere. Contributions should be prepared according to the instructions

to authors that can be found on the journal homepage. Authors should upload their contribu-

tions using the submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/itor, indicating in their cover

letter that the paper is intended for this special issue. Other inquiries should be sent directly to

the Guest Editors in charge of this issue: Mario Guajardo (mario.guajardo@nhh.no), Teodor

G. Crainic (teodorgabriel.crainic@cirrelt.net), Debjit Roy (debjit@iima.ac.in), Stein W. Wallace

(stein.wallace@nhh.no).

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